A situation can be so small, but the principle behind it can decide how the next hundred situations go.

I can't stand when people ask what you do for a living just to figure out how much respect you get. Title goes in, a number comes out, and the whole conversation runs on that setting. Ask me what I'm reading instead. You'd actually find out who you're talking to.

Some of us are building from SCRATCH. No inheritance, no connections, no backups. Just blood sweat & skills

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I've realized that some people are addicted to chaos. They'll sabotage anything peaceful. Create problems where there are none. Start fights for no reason. Because drama is all they know. Peace makes them uncomfortable so they destroy it. CREATE MORE PEACE.

The barbell gets treated like a young man's hobby. It's the opposite. It's the thing you're supposed to still be doing at 70. 35% percent of American men lift at all. By 65 that's 22%. Women drop from 34 to 17. So people quit right around the age it starts doing the most work for them. Start now and make it a discipline. Your future self will thank you.

The discipline you respect in yourself as a stacker is the same discipline the rest of your life is asking for. It just doesn't show up on a screen, so it's easier to skip.

Get your heart❤️ 📈 rate up anon…it’s good for you. 8 minute mile finished off with some zone 2 rogue echo bike.

Life can flip in a second. One phone call, one diagnosis, one unexpected moment and everything changes. Nothing is guaranteed. Not time. Not health. Not the people you love. So love louder. Appreciate deeper. Because what feels normal today could be something you pray for tomorrow. Gm Nostr

There will be a “Handoff” one day.

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Most of the trouble out there comes from people who need to be important. Which I know is a rich thing to say as a guy posting his opinions on the internet, so take it for what it's worth. But you've seen it. Somebody stakes out a position in front of an audience and then the facts move and they don't move with them, they just go find some angle that lets the old take keep standing, and if you've been reading them long enough you can usually watch them do it in real time. What they're protecting isn't the argument. It's the fact that people watched them make it. Three years on one side of something, wind changes, now they were always saying this. And the replies don't catch it because the replies were never there for accuracy in the first place, they're there because being on his side feels like being on the right side, which is its own version of the same thing. Nostr's a little better and I don't think it's because we're better people. It's that there's nobody handing out reach, so the loudest take doesn't pay, and when it doesn't pay people mostly stop doing it. Anyway I do this too. Which is the whole thing I just spent four paragraphs complaining about and now admitting. Humility is painful.

Left and right is cheap entertainment for the people running the tables. Argue all you want inside the lines.

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Resistance actually begins when you refuse to normalize cruelty...when you won't allow the illegitimate and horrible treatment of others to be normal

TO BE HATED FOR LOVING FREEDOM HAS TO BE THE WEIRDEST EXPERIENCE OF OUR LIVES.

GM Nostr. Every new machine gets an end of the world story. Rail was going to tear bodies apart at thirty miles an hour. Home electricity was going to kill families in their sleep. Now it's robots mining their own parts. Watch who pays for the loudest fear. The ones saying this is too dangerous for ordinary hands are the same ones applying for exclusive rights to it. Fear is how you get a license. Meanwhile the tools are sitting right there, open. So build, learn and stay wide eyed. Anyways, coffee is hot. Time to read, and workout.

Before you enter the game, study the winners. If you don't want their life, don't play their game.

The best kind of people are the ones you can pick right back up with no matter how much time has passed. Easy going, God loving, family people who wrestle through this life the same way you do and don't pretend otherwise. Marriage, kids, work, the rest of it. Those are their real concerns, and that's why they're good to be around. I find these people here and I’m grateful for them. Gm Nostr.