Ryan Stephens

My Dad is always out like a light in less than 2 minutes. When I asked him how, he just shrugged and said, “I guess I’m right with the Lord.”

@IterIntellectus We also killed the R rated comedy circa 2009

just finished scarface and it’s obscene how much movies have changed the colors. real use of space. no DEI or alphabet people, no fat people, no ideology. people who could actually act we used to make good movies. watch something from before 1995

@stevemagness Damnit, I have to wake up earlier. Otherwise there’s no 45 minutes easy for me in Houston. 😭

My old man running training: 4-5 days: 45min easy 1- 2 days: moderate or hard workout: Varying intensities. Short, medium, and long reps. 1-2 days: short strength circuit. Repeat for months. Keeps you in solid shape. Not very time consuming. Covers all the basics I need.

@RedNinetyFour I like Sheppard fine and think Ime should trust him more in a gummed up offense, but Castle wants to compete more than most guys want to breathe air. I don’t know how you identify that beforehand, but that guy *wants it,* and this will always put in the work to succeed.

Just so curious to know what the internal deliberations truly were that led to Stone taking Reed over Castle. Because any way you slice it, what Castle is doing right now on the big stage is a complete embarrassment for the Rockets and their talent evaluation processes. And I’m saying this as someone who thinks Reed can become a star in the right setting and still holding out hope that he can eventually become the better player when the dust settles. But that’s shaping up to be an extremely high bar. We just saw Castle close out the Wolves with 32-11-6 with 5 threes, while playing elite defense to send the Spurs to the WCF. Meanwhile, Ime Udoka doesn’t even trust Reed Sheppard to close out meaningless regular season games in January. Complete failure by the Rockets organization from top to bottom.

@BowTiedYukon I tell my 10u kids we’re aiming to win every game, but not at all costs. I’ve never had a losing season but we still move kids around during pool play.

One thing I find unacceptable is someone who doesn’t want to win I don’t care if it’s a player on my 10U baseball team, a parent from my sons 13U baseball team or the water boy from my sons varsity wrestling team Losing drives me insane If you aren’t here to win, preform your best, teach your children, your players and your teammates this mindset I don’t want you around me, my players or my kids Find another friend or another team if winning isn’t for you

@LinkedInLunat1c It’s wild how insufferable some of these people are.

Always be scaling

@Flies_Frequent @FWPlayboy I spent plenty of time sitting on that hill in Sewell Park and in the square in San Marcos. Fabulous scenery and less impressed with themselves than the women in West 6th.

@FWPlayboy Oh, one more thing. Austin isn't just UT. SW Texas State or whatever it calls itself now is 30 miles away and has the hottest girls of any college in the state and they go to Austin to party.

Austin has some key things going for it. 1) State Capital meaning power, women, and affluence. 2) UT Austin means new talent is arriving every fall. The best girls STAY in Austin after graduation. 3) You can work in a warehouse, ride your bike for transport, sleep on a mattress on the floor and still die of exhaustion fucking 3/4 new girls every week. L.A. is notoriously a tough dating environment for everyone but the rich, famous, and industry connected

@AstorAaron Rice’s campus, in particular, is one of the most beautiful spots in the city. 🔥

Every time I go to Houston, I enjoy it immensely - even if/when the weather is awful. It's such a culturally and economically vibrant place at all levels of society. It's also extremely lush in many older neighborhoods with all the live oaks and occasional palms.

@Brady_H I loved running at 142 in 8th grade. It’s much harder now at 180. 😆

Weight is so important in endurance sports. But a sensitive issue. And cautious one. Running with a body weight of 142–145 lb is much more enjoyable than even 147–150. But the former is where injury risk rises slightly (for me).

I’m sorry to report that walking 30 minutes a day without your phone is the most underrated way to improve your mind and body.

We play Little League in the spring in a district in southwest Houston with great baseball. Our postseason teams stay together and play travel (not more than 30 mins away) in the fall. It does suck when your kid can’t flip to 2B for a force out in LL, though because of stupid rules where kids *have* to play infield and such, so I get that frustration.

I don’t think a lot of people realize that “having to play travel to get good competition” (below age 13) is only because you’ve all left your little leagues to play travel. So you’re getting a more expensive little league option that has a worse schedule setup.

@BowTiedPhys My Mom told me that parenting her parents was way harder than parenting her kids. 😢

Remind myself of the role reversal often.

@IterIntellectus I knew a lot of those women in college who went hard back to the right after marrying a conservative man and having kids, but we also live in a society that polarizes men and women and puts them against each other instead of showcasing what great teamwork looks like.

women moved left while men stayed sane because social media algorithms optimized for emotional reactions while society implemented more censorship policies women are more emotional and reactive (higher neuroticism across every culture studied), so they got captured while men largely ignored the feeds (or got captured by different things: porn, gambling, video games, manosphere) smartphones and social media built a culture where shock, outrage, and emotional bait won every engagement war and obviously women responded to it harder than men. facebook 2006, iphone 2007, instagram 2010 all coincide with more female leftism. teenage girl's mental health collapse closely correlates with this too the algorithms weren't designed to capture women but attention, and it ended up capturing the half more sensitive to consensus pressure first. women also complain more, and in a feminized society complaints carry institutional weight. universities, HR, media, education, healthcare etc, every institution they enter bends toward what they feel. censor any disagreement that seems "mean" and you get an algorithmically captured society. so they live in a made-up reality where everything validates their collectivism, their victimhood and their certainty that anyone who disagrees is evil (the TV and the movies and the media say so, so it must be true). four years of college, then thirty years inside institutions that never push back and you get this

@Bowtiedplayer Check out my guy @WellBuiltStyle He’s got me pretty dialed.

What fashion brands do you like? Time for a wardrobe refresh. Not trying to look unc

@BoringBiz_ 1.) Wholeheartedly agree. 2.) The side hustle can be a nice place to focus some energy, and increase surface area/hone skills, if you’re unhappy in the career—until you can move up or out.

A lot of people dont like hearing this but the highest ROI move for the majority of people is to double down on their career path and make the next promotion at their job, rather than attempting to run a side hustle or business

@Molson_Hart It’s also incredibly pretentious compared to other big, Texas cities. Dallas cares more about optics than substance.

Let me explain Dallas(s) 1. The summers are unbearable and this cannot be understood without moving there. You can't just visit Texas for 3 weeks in peak summer and understand it, because that's not why it's bad. It's bad because it's late October and it's 90+ and you're questioning your sanity as to whether not it will ever end. 2. Dallas' culture, superficially seems good, but once you dig down... 3. Dallas living is about the airport. You save money in Dallas and then fly out all the time because being in Dallas is rough. Airline travel in the US has declined a lot, so this way of life works less well. 4. The driving. It's dangerous. You need a tank and you're going to be sitting in it all the time. Dallas sort of seems like a city but it's not really. It's more like an area. 5. You can trade 3% state income tax for better weather, more trees, and fewer problems. I think Dallas is a solid place to live in a bigger house with A/C and grind for money aggressively for a short period of time and then move out of. Other than that, unless you are tied down there (job, family), I can't recommend it.

@Linahuaa @trshcrtnashnlsm Men love paying for women who complement them, just not women who compete with them.

@trshcrtnashnlsm but men don't like to pay for women either lol

This is what an above average group of 7/10 American girls looks like. They're business students from a very good school (which already raises the average by a lot) They also have significantly below national average BMI. They gonna be top 15% earners. So, in order to looks and status match with them, you should be about 6 feet tall, be in decent shape, dress well, and earn about $150k. The numbers don't lie.

@TrentRead @Breaking911 I watched it without sound. 🤣

@ryanstephens @Breaking911 I understand the emotion. What she’s yelling? Only about half of that.

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"If I told you there was one free thing you could do every Sunday that would make your kids happier, healthier, smarter, and closer to you, you'd think I was selling something." Take your kids to church regularly. I don't care if you believe. The data is so lopsided that skipping it is the parenting equivalent of refusing vegetables because you don't like the taste. Grades. Religious teens get As at almost twice the rate of nonreligious teens. In a class of 100, that's 24 A-students instead of 14. Church gives a kid the same academic boost as being born rich instead of poor. College. Working-class religious kids earn bachelor's degrees at double the rate of their nonreligious peers. Middle-class kids do it at 1.5x the rate. For families without a trust fund, this is one of the most powerful forms of upward mobility social scientists have measured. Character. Religious teens are far less likely to lie, cheat, or do things they hope their parents never find out about. They're more likely to care about racial equality, the elderly, and the poor. They reject the idea that morality is whatever works for you in the moment. That kind of kid doesn't happen by accident. It's built. Closeness. 60% of parents of religious teens say they feel "extremely close" to their kid, compared to 50% of nonreligious parents. The kids report the same thing back. They get along better with their parents, talk about hard stuff, and actually want to spend time with their family. Despair. Religious teens are dramatically less likely to be depressed, anxious, lonely, or feel that life is meaningless. 90% of devoted religious teens never binge drink, compared to 41% of the disengaged. Economists named the modern epidemic "deaths of despair." Regular church attendance is one of the strongest known buffers against it. Parents are spending fortunes trying to solve teen mental health. The most evidence-backed intervention is free. Purpose. Religious young adults report higher purpose, gratitude, life satisfaction, and resilience. These are the exact traits every parent says they want their kid to have. Here's why it works. Affluent families already surround their kids with networks of stable, accomplished adults through neighborhoods, schools, and parents' colleagues. Working and middle-class families usually don't. A congregation is often the last institution in American life that puts your kid in weekly contact with dozens of stable, employed, sober adults who know their name. It used to be called "a village." Now it barely exists outside of churches. "But I don't believe." Your kid doesn't need your theology. They need you to show up. "But church is boring." So is sitting through a kindergarten music recital. Parenting is the deliberate choice to be bored on purpose for someone you love. There's a church within 15 minutes of nearly every American home. You don't need money, connections, or credentials to walk in. Nothing else in this country will surround your kid with engaged adults, teach them moral seriousness, and give them a stable weekly rhythm at zero cost. You already drive them to practices that produce far less. The free thing on Sunday produces more, on more dimensions, than almost anything else you do as a parent. You don't have to believe anything. You just have to take them.