Загрузка видео...

Не удалось загрузить видео

На главную

Imagine a compound that claims to improve focus, boost learning, increase BDNF, and even help protect the brain after a stroke. Sounds like science fiction. It's called Semax—a peptide developed in the Soviet Union that's been used clinically in Russia for over 30 years. So... is it actually a...

DrAlexTatem's profile picture

Dr. Alex Tatem

17,421 subscribers

11,600 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад •via X (Twitter)

LIVE

Anya Rossi• Live Now

Private livecam show

Комментарии: 0

Нет доступных комментариев

Здесь появятся комментарии из оригинального поста

Похожие видео

did you know? a neuron that never finds another to connect with quietly dies in the dark.. ever feel like stress is changing who you are? you're not imagining it. this video shows a neuron dying after years of chronic stress. chronic exposure to stress hormones like cortisol can impair the health and functioning of brain cells over time. the problem? many of us aren't stressed for a few minutes. we're stressed for weeks, months, or even years. over time, high cortisol levels can make it harder for neurons to form strong connections, especially in areas of the brain involved in memory, focus, learning, and emotional regulation. that's why chronic stress can show up as: brain fog, forgetfulness, difficulty concentrating, feeling emotionally reactive, constant exhaustion. if you've ever walked into a room and forgotten why, reread the same sentence five times, or felt like your brain just isn't working the way it used to, chronic stress may be playing a role. but here's the part most people don't hear: your brain can change in positive ways, too. through neuroplasticity, your neurons can build new connections throughout your life. every time you sleep, exercise, meditate, connect with supportive people, or practice healthier thought patterns, you're giving your brain an opportunity to recover and adapt. your brain isn't working against you. it's been trying to protect you. and healing is possible.
0:29

did you know? a neuron that never finds another to connect with quietly dies in the dark.. ever feel like stress is changing who you are? you're not imagining it. this video shows a neuron dying after years of chronic stress. chronic exposure to stress hormones like cortisol can impair the health and functioning of brain cells over time. the problem? many of us aren't stressed for a few minutes. we're stressed for weeks, months, or even years. over time, high cortisol levels can make it harder for neurons to form strong connections, especially in areas of the brain involved in memory, focus, learning, and emotional regulation. that's why chronic stress can show up as: brain fog, forgetfulness, difficulty concentrating, feeling emotionally reactive, constant exhaustion. if you've ever walked into a room and forgotten why, reread the same sentence five times, or felt like your brain just isn't working the way it used to, chronic stress may be playing a role. but here's the part most people don't hear: your brain can change in positive ways, too. through neuroplasticity, your neurons can build new connections throughout your life. every time you sleep, exercise, meditate, connect with supportive people, or practice healthier thought patterns, you're giving your brain an opportunity to recover and adapt. your brain isn't working against you. it's been trying to protect you. and healing is possible.

alexei

42,704 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

Louisa Nicola says peptides are too risky to take. Not one peptide on the gray market has been through a human safety trial. Zero. BPC-157 is not FDA approved. The FDA blocked compounding pharmacies from using it because of insufficient safety data Yet people are buying it on the black market and injecting it anyway. She also says it also new blood vessels in your body and so do cancer cells. It could potentially help cancer cells grow. In her words: "The same people that are scared of vaccines are the ones buying peptides on the gray market. Make it make sense." You don't know what's in the bottle. You don't know what it's doing to your body. — Louisa Nicola (Louisa Nicola) on the Shawn Ryan’s (Shawn Ryan Show) podcast
1:40

Louisa Nicola says peptides are too risky to take. Not one peptide on the gray market has been through a human safety trial. Zero. BPC-157 is not FDA approved. The FDA blocked compounding pharmacies from using it because of insufficient safety data Yet people are buying it on the black market and injecting it anyway. She also says it also new blood vessels in your body and so do cancer cells. It could potentially help cancer cells grow. In her words: "The same people that are scared of vaccines are the ones buying peptides on the gray market. Make it make sense." You don't know what's in the bottle. You don't know what it's doing to your body. — Louisa Nicola (Louisa Nicola) on the Shawn Ryan’s (Shawn Ryan Show) podcast

Goku

39,600 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

✨ Finally built a timeline for now I always wanted to make my site a bit more social, because I had profiles and trip overlaps and you could kinda see where other people went, but not something like this So on this new page you can see people near you, where everyone's traveling too, etc. There's the [ For you ] tab and [ Following ], like on X. So you can see people you follow, or just everyone I hope I can improve it more so the site will result in more serendipitous connections, especially now that's it's free Also nice you can see where people will be in the future so you can plan trips to places where other members are, or if you're in the FOR YOU tab, where your friends are Let me know any ideas you have and things I should build and I'll do it, I want to make it the biggest and most fun to use nomad/travel site in the world! (Please tell your friends about that it's free, so you can use it as a social friends travel tracker kinda thing)
0:41

✨ Finally built a timeline for now I always wanted to make my site a bit more social, because I had profiles and trip overlaps and you could kinda see where other people went, but not something like this So on this new page you can see people near you, where everyone's traveling too, etc. There's the [ For you ] tab and [ Following ], like on X. So you can see people you follow, or just everyone I hope I can improve it more so the site will result in more serendipitous connections, especially now that's it's free Also nice you can see where people will be in the future so you can plan trips to places where other members are, or if you're in the FOR YOU tab, where your friends are Let me know any ideas you have and things I should build and I'll do it, I want to make it the biggest and most fun to use nomad/travel site in the world! (Please tell your friends about that it's free, so you can use it as a social friends travel tracker kinda thing)

@levelsio

53,286 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

Warren Buffett shares what he would do if he had to start investing again w/ just $1 million Here was his valuable/timeless advice: "With just a million dollars, you could earn 50% a year... I don't know what the equivalent of Moody's manuals or anything would be now, but I would try and know everything about everything small, and I would find [opportunities]. But you have to be in love with the subject. You can't just be in love with the money. You've really got to just find [the opportunity]. People find other things in other fields because they love looking for them. A biologist looks for something because they want to find something. I don't know how the human brain works that much. I don't think anybody understands too well how the human brain works. But there's different people that just find it exciting to expand their knowledge in a given area. I've had the luck of meeting a lot of people that are unbelievably smart in their own arena and do some unbelievably dumb things in other areas. So all I know is the human brain is complicated. But it does its best when you find out what your brain is really suited for, and then you just pound the heII out of it from that point. And that's what I would be doing if I had a small amount of money and I wanted to make 50% a year. But I also wanted to just play the game. And you can't do it if you don't find the game interesting, whether it's bridge or chess or in this case, finding securities that are undervalued."
1:33

Warren Buffett shares what he would do if he had to start investing again w/ just $1 million Here was his valuable/timeless advice: "With just a million dollars, you could earn 50% a year... I don't know what the equivalent of Moody's manuals or anything would be now, but I would try and know everything about everything small, and I would find [opportunities]. But you have to be in love with the subject. You can't just be in love with the money. You've really got to just find [the opportunity]. People find other things in other fields because they love looking for them. A biologist looks for something because they want to find something. I don't know how the human brain works that much. I don't think anybody understands too well how the human brain works. But there's different people that just find it exciting to expand their knowledge in a given area. I've had the luck of meeting a lot of people that are unbelievably smart in their own arena and do some unbelievably dumb things in other areas. So all I know is the human brain is complicated. But it does its best when you find out what your brain is really suited for, and then you just pound the heII out of it from that point. And that's what I would be doing if I had a small amount of money and I wanted to make 50% a year. But I also wanted to just play the game. And you can't do it if you don't find the game interesting, whether it's bridge or chess or in this case, finding securities that are undervalued."

Triple Net Investor

285,711 просмотров • 1 год назад

Ziplock Bags are now involved in a class action lawsuit after being linked to causing dementia “I'm Dr. Clint Steele. I'm a brain and nervous system specialist and I help people just like you improve your life by improving your brain function, specifically around, preventing and in many cases reversing dementia and Alzheimer's disease. For those of you that follow me, I did a video on this not too long ago talking about 750 milligrams of plastic being found in the brains of those that have Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. That's the size of a plastic spoon, folks. So question is, where are all these plastics coming from? — What they're finding here, guys, is this an SC Johnson claims that Ziploc bags are safe to use in extreme conditions, meaning for freezing and also for heating in their microwave. Now for any of you that are doing this, guys, and this is one of the reasons I don't do this, because it doesn't make sense to me to put this in the microwave. It's going to melt, it's plastic. It's going to get into my food. That's not good for me. So if you're doing this, you got to stop. Here's what happens. There's two ingredients in this, in this plastic bag called polyethylene and polypropylene that break down and turn into microplastics. These microplastics are so small that they can actually cross the blood brain barrier. And this is how we're finding plastics in the brain — Get the plastics out of your life as much as you can. And especially these” “Please guys, share this. I'm out to save 1 million lives from dementia and Alzheimer's disease and I need your help. And we've got to get rid of stuff like this because it's damaging our brains and it's leading to end stage neurodegenerative diseases. So please share this. I love you. I'm Dr. Clint. Let's save more lives”
3:02

Ziplock Bags are now involved in a class action lawsuit after being linked to causing dementia “I'm Dr. Clint Steele. I'm a brain and nervous system specialist and I help people just like you improve your life by improving your brain function, specifically around, preventing and in many cases reversing dementia and Alzheimer's disease. For those of you that follow me, I did a video on this not too long ago talking about 750 milligrams of plastic being found in the brains of those that have Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. That's the size of a plastic spoon, folks. So question is, where are all these plastics coming from? — What they're finding here, guys, is this an SC Johnson claims that Ziploc bags are safe to use in extreme conditions, meaning for freezing and also for heating in their microwave. Now for any of you that are doing this, guys, and this is one of the reasons I don't do this, because it doesn't make sense to me to put this in the microwave. It's going to melt, it's plastic. It's going to get into my food. That's not good for me. So if you're doing this, you got to stop. Here's what happens. There's two ingredients in this, in this plastic bag called polyethylene and polypropylene that break down and turn into microplastics. These microplastics are so small that they can actually cross the blood brain barrier. And this is how we're finding plastics in the brain — Get the plastics out of your life as much as you can. And especially these” “Please guys, share this. I'm out to save 1 million lives from dementia and Alzheimer's disease and I need your help. And we've got to get rid of stuff like this because it's damaging our brains and it's leading to end stage neurodegenerative diseases. So please share this. I love you. I'm Dr. Clint. Let's save more lives”

Wall Street Apes

1,251,749 просмотров • 1 год назад

your brain can't tell the difference between something you vividly imagine and something that's actually happening to you. neuroscientists call it episodic future thinking. most people only use it to rehearse failure and call it "being realistic." that's not caution, it's self sabotage on repeat. flip it. visualize the outcome you actually want, with real emotion, and your brain starts building the neural pathway for it. it starts filtering reality for evidence that matches. the future isn't something that happens to you. it's being built inside your mind right now, whether you're doing it on purpose or not.
1:51

your brain can't tell the difference between something you vividly imagine and something that's actually happening to you. neuroscientists call it episodic future thinking. most people only use it to rehearse failure and call it "being realistic." that's not caution, it's self sabotage on repeat. flip it. visualize the outcome you actually want, with real emotion, and your brain starts building the neural pathway for it. it starts filtering reality for evidence that matches. the future isn't something that happens to you. it's being built inside your mind right now, whether you're doing it on purpose or not.

alexei

130,084 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

Nothing Changes If you feel stuck and unable to make progress, here's the truth I have discovered after decades of studying brain science, and surviving multiple traumas in my own life, including the loss of my son: Nothing changes until you change something. I lost a lot of time waiting to feel better, thinking I could only change after my emotions did. But what I discovered was that you never feel better enough to change your actions, but as soon as you change your actions, you start to feel better. Change doesn't require perfection, it requires interruption. And that type of change, that type of initiative, doesn't calm until you begin to change things that you think about and the ways that you think about the situation you've been in. That's why Romans 12:2 tells us not to be conformed to the pattern of the world, which is a constant focus on our circumstances and feelings, but to be transformed by of our minds. Once you understand that your mind is in charge of your brain and know what you think about can change how your brain works, you can be truly set free the partner with God in going after the life he's calling you to. And if you feel like you can't hold it all together, I have good news: you were never supposed to. Colossians -20 says that in him everything is held together. Nothing changes until you change something. As soon as you're ready to change your mind, you can change your life. Your creator is ready to help you, your brain is designed to heal, grow, and change, and we're counting on you. Save this for the next time you feel stock, and share it with a friend who needs to know that nothing changes until we change something. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best seller, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery, and to find my weekly newsletter, podcast, and more. #neuroscience #anxiety #mentalhealth #selfbrainsurgery
0:34

Nothing Changes If you feel stuck and unable to make progress, here's the truth I have discovered after decades of studying brain science, and surviving multiple traumas in my own life, including the loss of my son: Nothing changes until you change something. I lost a lot of time waiting to feel better, thinking I could only change after my emotions did. But what I discovered was that you never feel better enough to change your actions, but as soon as you change your actions, you start to feel better. Change doesn't require perfection, it requires interruption. And that type of change, that type of initiative, doesn't calm until you begin to change things that you think about and the ways that you think about the situation you've been in. That's why Romans 12:2 tells us not to be conformed to the pattern of the world, which is a constant focus on our circumstances and feelings, but to be transformed by of our minds. Once you understand that your mind is in charge of your brain and know what you think about can change how your brain works, you can be truly set free the partner with God in going after the life he's calling you to. And if you feel like you can't hold it all together, I have good news: you were never supposed to. Colossians -20 says that in him everything is held together. Nothing changes until you change something. As soon as you're ready to change your mind, you can change your life. Your creator is ready to help you, your brain is designed to heal, grow, and change, and we're counting on you. Save this for the next time you feel stock, and share it with a friend who needs to know that nothing changes until we change something. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best seller, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery, and to find my weekly newsletter, podcast, and more. #neuroscience #anxiety #mentalhealth #selfbrainsurgery

Dr. Lee Warren

16,564 просмотров • 20 дней назад

.Matt Whitlock debunks the notion that the Trump admin is “selling” land in Yosemite and makes clear it’s a land swap designed to increase park access for more Americans: “It's hard to access. There aren’t a lot of places to stay around it, and the park is hurting financially. So the goal of this is to make it easier for people to access it and have more people come into the park. ... It’s a land swap. It’s not a sale. It’s not a giveaway to help a wealthy friend. This is to help more people get in and enjoy Yosemite. So I think there’s been a lot of coverage that’s sort of much ado about nothing, when you understand how this actually works.”
2:01

.Matt Whitlock debunks the notion that the Trump admin is “selling” land in Yosemite and makes clear it’s a land swap designed to increase park access for more Americans: “It's hard to access. There aren’t a lot of places to stay around it, and the park is hurting financially. So the goal of this is to make it easier for people to access it and have more people come into the park. ... It’s a land swap. It’s not a sale. It’s not a giveaway to help a wealthy friend. This is to help more people get in and enjoy Yosemite. So I think there’s been a lot of coverage that’s sort of much ado about nothing, when you understand how this actually works.”

Conservative War Machine

14,762 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

The most important factor in whether or not you'll actually learn something is just whether you have the motivation. Do you have friends who are also interested in this stuff? Do you have a project to work on? Are you trying to break into a new field? Good explanations and technologies can help make the process smoother if you're already motivated. But they can't substitute for it.
1:38

The most important factor in whether or not you'll actually learn something is just whether you have the motivation. Do you have friends who are also interested in this stuff? Do you have a project to work on? Are you trying to break into a new field? Good explanations and technologies can help make the process smoother if you're already motivated. But they can't substitute for it.

Dwarkesh Patel

35,114 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

A wild eagle got into his car. That's not the strange part. The strange part is that it didn't want to leave. Read that again, because it breaks everything you think you know about wild animals. An eagle is not a pigeon. It is not a stray dog. It is not a cat that wandered into your garage. It is a predator built over millions of years to avoid exactly one thing: being close to you. And yet. I watched this video more times than I'd admit. Not because it's cute. Not because it's scary. Because somewhere around the second minute, I realized I was holding my breath, and couldn't tell you why. So let me tell you what this post is about, and what it is NOT about. It is not about a bird in a car. It is about what happens in the quiet space between a wild animal and a human being when the animal has run out of options and chooses to stop running. Let's go. --- 1/ THE RULE EVERYONE BREAKS There is one rule in wildlife work. People who spend their lives around raptors repeat it like a prayer: A healthy wild bird of prey does not come to you. Not for food. Not for warmth. Not for shelter. Not ever. An eagle that lets you walk up to it is not brave. It is not tame. It is not "friendly." It is a bird that has decided the danger in front of it is smaller than the danger it was already in. Think about what that means. Think about how bad things have to get for the apex predator of the sky to look at a human being and quietly decide: "Okay. You. Maybe you." Most people never see that moment. They hear about it later, in a sentence that starts with "apparently, this bird just..." This time somebody was rolling. --- 2/ WHY YOU CAN'T LOOK AWAY (AND IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT) Your brain has a built-in alarm for two things at the same time: power and vulnerability. Show it a lion, it goes quiet and sharp. Show it a baby bird, it softens. Show it both in the same body and something short-circuits. That's what an injured eagle is. A creature that looks like a weapon and behaves like a plea. The talons are enormous. The beak is a hooked blade. The eyes have a stare most humans can't hold for more than a few seconds. Everything about the animal says: stay away. And everything about its behavior says: please don't. That contradiction is the entire video. You will feel it in your chest before you can name it. Most of us don't have a word for this feeling because we almost never get to have it. --- 3/ THE SIZE PROBLEM Quick exercise. Before you watch, try to hold a number in your head. How big do you think an eagle is? Most people say "like a big chicken." Maybe a large cat. Then you see one inside a normal car, on a normal seat, next to normal car things like seat belts and a steering wheel, and your brain refuses the scale. The car suddenly looks small. The man suddenly looks small. And there is a moment in this video where you will do a thing nearly everyone does: you will pause, lean back from your screen, and say "no way that's real." It's real. --- 4/ WHAT THE MAN DID NEXT (WILL SURPRISE YOU) I'm not going to tell you. I'll tell you what I expected, though. I expected panic. I expected screaming, a door flung open, a phone dropped, a very short video that ends with a blur and a swear word. That's the internet's favorite genre. You know it. A person encounters an animal, loses their mind, the clip is 8 seconds long, everyone laughs. This is not that clip. This clip runs a little over two minutes. And it holds you the whole way. Because what happens inside that car is less like a funny video and more like watching somebody defuse something. Slow. Careful. Almost polite. You'll catch yourself whispering at your screen. You'll catch yourself telling a stranger what to do. --- 5/ THE SOUND Turn the volume on. I'm serious. Not "recommended." Required. Half of what makes this video land is not what you see. It's what you hear: a man who is clearly, absolutely, completely out of his depth, talking his way through it anyway, one half-joke and one swear word at a time. Humor is what people do when the situation is bigger than they are. Somewhere in there is a lesson that has nothing to do with eagles. --- 6/ THE PART NOBODY TALKS ABOUT Everybody who comments on this video says the same three things: "Wow, the eagle is huge." "Wow, that guy is calm." "Wow, I would've screamed." Almost nobody says the fourth thing, which is the only one that matters: It's a rescue. Not a rescue of the bird. Well, yes, of the bird. But more precisely, it's a rescue that only works because two completely different kinds of creature agree, for a few minutes, to not do what their instincts are screaming at them to do. One of them is built to strike. The other is built to flee. Neither does. If you've ever wondered what trust looks like when neither side has words, this is the closest thing I've ever seen on a screen. --- 7/ THE THING ABOUT STILLNESS We live in a world that rewards motion. Post more. Reply faster. Move. Pivot. Hustle. Scale. And then there's a video where the most powerful thing in the entire frame is a creature sitting completely still, and the second most powerful is a man doing his best to match it. Nobody is performing. Nobody is trying to go viral. (Which is exactly why it will.) No sponsored segment. No "wait for it." Just stillness, and tension, and a decision being made in real time by two living things that can't explain themselves to each other. I've been on this platform for over a decade. I've seen what spreads. And it's almost never the loud stuff. It's the stuff that makes your whole feed go quiet for a second. This does that. --- 8/ SEVEN THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT EAGLES AFTER THIS VIDEO BROKE MY BRAIN I went down a rabbit hole. Here's what I came back with. → An eagle's eyesight is estimated to be several times sharper than a human's. It can pick out a rabbit from a distance at which you couldn't tell a person from a post. It sees in a way you simply do not. When it looks at you from close range, it is not "looking." It is reading. → Their grip is brutal. The talons are built to lock, and the locking mechanism works with the bird's own weight. In other words, the harder it settles, the harder it holds. A bird like that does not need to try to be dangerous. Dangerous is the default setting. → Raptors hide pain. This is the one that got me. In the wild, a bird that shows weakness gets challenged, robbed or eaten. So they do the opposite of what we do: the worse they feel, the quieter and stiller they become. A calm eagle is not always a healthy eagle. → Many birds of prey are surprisingly light for their size. Huge wingspan, hollow-boned frame, almost nothing underneath all those feathers. The "giant" you see is mostly an illusion built from wings. Which makes the next part even stranger. → They are not social with humans. At all. Raptors are solitary hunters. There is no instinct in there that says "find the nearest person and sit next to them." If an eagle is near you and not leaving, something has gone wrong, or something has gone very, very right. → Eagles live long lives, and they hold territory with an almost military seriousness. To end up far from where it belongs, inside a machine it doesn't understand, surrounded by smells it has never encountered, is as far outside its world as a bird can be pushed. → And the last one: they don't do "sorry" and they don't do "thank you." There is no grateful look. If you're waiting for the moment where the bird bows its head, you'll be waiting forever. That's why the ending of this video hits the way it does. I won't say more. --- 9/ THE FIRST TEN SECONDS If you only give this video ten seconds, you'll understand it. If you give it a full minute, you'll have a hard time leaving. Ten seconds is enough because the whole story is in the frame at once: the scale, the closeness, the stillness, the human who has just realized that his day has changed. You don't need context. You don't need a caption. You don't need me. And that is the highest compliment I know how to give a video on this platform. Most content needs an explanation. This content needs a witness. Be the witness. --- 10/ WHY THE COMMENTS ARE GOING TO BE WILD I can already tell you what's coming, because I've seen this exact pattern on a thousand posts: First wave: "FAKE." Second wave: "It's trained." Third wave: "Why didn't he just open the door?" Fourth wave: someone who actually works with birds, calmly explaining what's going on in a way that makes everyone else feel slightly embarrassed. Fifth wave: a quiet reply that just says "I'm not crying, you're crying." If you're going to join the conversation, at least watch to the end first. The end is the answer to about 80% of the arguments. --- 11/ THE QUESTION THAT WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE I keep thinking about one thing. Why a car? Out of all the places in a whole landscape, why that one? Maybe it was open. Maybe it was dark. Maybe it was warm. Maybe it was the only enclosed space for miles. Maybe the bird was hurt and needed to be somewhere with walls. Maybe it was a coincidence. Here's what I think. And I'm saying "think," not "know." I think when a creature is hurt badly enough, it stops choosing the best place and starts choosing the nearest one. Not the safest. Not the smartest. The nearest. And the nearest thing happened to be a man, a seat, a roof, and a few feet of air that felt, to a frightened animal, like the closest thing to a cave. If that's true, it's a very uncomfortable idea. Because it means the bird didn't pick him. It means he was just the one who was there. And the whole story, everything after, depends on what he decided to do with that. --- 12/ THE MOMENT YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT'S COMING There's a beat in the video where you will be absolutely certain you know where this is going. You'll feel your brain build the ending. It will feel obvious. It will be wrong. I won't say how. But I'll say this: watch the person, not the bird. The bird is the headline. The person is the story. The more I watched, the more I noticed that the camera was never really on the eagle. It was on the human who had to decide what kind of person he was going to be in the next five minutes. That's a good test for anything you watch online: Is this video about the thing in the frame? Or is it about the choice someone is making just outside it? The best ones are always the second kind. --- 13/ A NOTE FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK THIS IS "JUST A CUTE ANIMAL VIDEO" It isn't. Cute animal videos are interchangeable. Puppy falls over. Cat stares at a wall. Hamster eats a tiny burrito. You scroll past, you smile, you forget. This is the other end of the spectrum. This video is not cute. This video is tense. It's patient. It's got weight. It sits in your chest for a while after it ends. If you want to know whether a clip is actually good, ask yourself one question an hour after you watch it: Can I still see it? I can still see this one. --- 14/ THE THING ABOUT BEING THE ONLY WITNESS Imagine this happening and nobody filming. A man. A car. An eagle. A decision. Nobody would believe it. He'd tell the story at a dinner and people would nod politely and think: sure. The camera changes everything. Not because it makes the story true, but because it makes the story shareable. And shareable is how good things survive. So here's what I ask. If you watch this and it gets to you, don't just like it and move on. Send it to one person who needs a reason to believe that the world still does unexpected, gentle things. You know who that person is. --- 15/ THE CONTRAST THAT MAKES IT WORK Great stories run on contrast. Always. Predator and prey. Strength and fragility. Speed and stillness. Fear and calm. A wild creature and a very ordinary place. This video stacks all of it. An animal that belongs to the open sky, pressed into the smallest space it has probably ever occupied. A human being whose biggest worry that morning was probably something like traffic or a phone battery. A moment that should be a disaster and keeps refusing to become one. When those contrasts sit that close together, they stop being opposites. They start being a conversation. It's the same reason a candle looks brighter in a dark room. --- 16/ WHAT YOUR BRAIN IS DOING WHILE YOU WATCH For the nerds. I love the nerds. Three things are happening in your head while this plays. One: threat detection. You are looking at a large predator in a confined space, and a very old part of your brain is running a calculation about how many seconds it would take to get out. It's doing this whether you want it to or not. Two: empathy. A second system, the one that makes you wince when you see someone stub a toe, is reading the posture of an animal that is clearly not at its best. It's asking whether the creature is okay. Three: prediction. A third system is trying to guess what happens next, over and over, every second, and the video keeps making that guess slightly wrong. Three engines, running together, pulling in different directions. That's why you can't scroll. Your brain is busy. --- 17/ "BUT WHAT DID IT FEEL LIKE TO BE THERE?" I'll be honest. I don't know. I've never had a wild raptor sitting behind me while I tried to work out what to do with my hands. But I've thought about it a lot, and I think it feels like the opposite of a movie. In a movie, the music tells you what to feel. You get the swell, the cut, the close-up. In real life, there's nothing. Just air. And a thing that's alive in a way you can't negotiate with, in the same space as you, and a clock you can't see. Nobody tells you what to do. You just have to do something. That's the part the video gets right without even trying. You are not watching a performance. You are watching someone make it up as they go. --- 18/ THE ENDING (I'M NOT GOING TO SPOIL IT, BUT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU HOW IT FEELS) You know the feeling at the end of a long flight, when the wheels touch the ground and the whole cabin exhales? It's that. You don't know you've been tense until it stops. And then, a second later, something quieter shows up. Not happiness exactly. More like relief with a little bit of awe mixed in, the feeling you get when you realize you just watched something that was not supposed to go this well. I've been on the internet a long time. That feeling is rarer than it should be. If you've been scrolling through outrage for the last hour, give yourself two minutes of this. Your nervous system will thank you. --- 19/ WHY THIS IS THE ANTIDOTE Open any feed right now and count how many posts are trying to make you angry. Ten? Twenty? Now count how many are trying to make you feel something steady and good about the world, without pretending that the world is simple. This video is one of those. And the reason it works is that it doesn't ask you to ignore anything. It doesn't tell you everything is fine. It shows you a situation where things could have gone wrong in at least five different ways, and then it shows you what happens when the people involved choose patience. That is not a naive message. That is the hardest message there is. --- 20/ THE PEOPLE YOU DON'T SEE Here's a thing that bothers me about viral videos. We always celebrate the person who stands in front of the camera. We almost never celebrate the people behind them: the ones who show up when called, who do the slow and unglamorous work, who carry what needs carrying, who stay with something frightened until it isn't. Wildlife rescue is almost entirely made of those people. Volunteers. Rangers. Rehabilitators. People who pick up the phone at strange hours and say "okay, I'm on my way," and then drive somewhere with a carrier and a towel and no guarantee of a good outcome. If this video makes you feel something, let it make you feel something about them too. They're the reason a lot of stories like this have an ending at all. --- 21/ THE LINE I KEEP REPEATING "A wild animal that stops running is asking you a question." I wrote that down after my third viewing, and I've been turning it over ever since. Because most of us, when we meet something frightening, ask ourselves: how do I get away? Almost none of us ask: what is it trying to say? The man in this video asks the second question. Whether he knows it or not. That's the difference between a clip that makes you gasp and a clip that makes you think. --- 22/ A SMALL RULE FOR YOUR OWN LIFE If you ever find yourself near an injured wild animal, here's the unglamorous, boring, correct advice that every rehabilitator will give you: Don't be a hero. Keep your distance. Keep your voice low. Keep your hands to yourself. Don't pick it up, don't feed it, don't try to fix it on your own, and call the people whose entire job is to know what to do. Wild animals can be hurt by well-meaning help, and they can hurt you, too. I say this because I know exactly what a video like this makes people want to do. It makes people want to rush in. Don't. Call someone who knows. That's the real heroism, and it's less photogenic, and it saves more lives. --- 23/ THE SENTENCE THAT CAME UP IN MY HEAD AT THE END "Some things only happen if you stay calm for long enough." I don't know if that's true. I know it's what I thought. I think it's true of eagles. I think it's true of people. I think it's true of most of the hard things we're afraid of: the conversation, the diagnosis, the email, the leap. The version of you that panics is not stupid. It's just early. If you can hold still just a little longer than your instincts want you to, the situation will usually show you something it was hiding. That's it. That's the thesis of the entire post. You didn't need an eagle for it. But an eagle makes it a lot harder to forget. --- 24/ FIVE THINGS TO WATCH FOR (ZERO SPOILERS) Pay attention to these, and the video becomes a different video. → The distance. Not between the man and the bird. Between the bird and everything else it could have done. → The hands. Not what they do, but what they don't do for as long as they possibly can. → The words. Every line is human, unpolished, and a little scared. That's the point. → The silence between the words. It's longer than you expect and it tells you more than the dialogue. → The change of scenery. The story doesn't end where you think it will. Stay for the second half. The second half is the reason this post exists. If you do that, you won't just watch it. You'll remember it. --- 25/ THE SCREENSHOT TEST Here's a trick I use to decide whether a video is worth sharing. Pause it at a random moment. Any moment. If the frozen image still tells a story, you have something special. If it's just a blur or a talking head, you have content. Pause this one anywhere. Anywhere at all. It's a painting. A creature that belongs to the sky, a very ordinary human world, and a tension between them so thick you could rest your hand on it. It works as a still. It works as a clip. It works at half speed. It works with the sound off, although you shouldn't do that to yourself. That's rare. Videos built on real moments have it. Videos built on engineering never do. --- 26/ A PROMISE I'm not selling anything. No course. No link in bio. No thread of "10 lessons from an eagle for your startup." (Okay, one of those earlier sections came dangerously close. I'm aware.) I just watched something that made me stop, and in a feed full of things that make me scroll faster, that felt like a small miracle. So the promise is simple. If you give it your two minutes, you won't feel like you wasted them. If you do, say so. I can take it. --- 27/ WHAT A WILD ANIMAL TEACHES YOU ABOUT TIMING There's a rhythm to moments like this, and it isn't the rhythm of the internet. The internet is fast. Cut, cut, cut. Hook, payoff, next. This video moves at the speed of something that's afraid and something that's trying not to add to it. Slowly. Carefully. With long pauses where nothing seems to happen and everything is actually happening. That's why it's so hard to describe and so easy to feel. A fast video asks for your eyes. A slow video asks for your pulse. This one gets it. --- 28/ IF YOU ONLY REMEMBER ONE THING Don't remember the size of the bird. Don't remember the car. Remember that for a few minutes, a frightened wild animal and a startled human being shared a very small space, and neither one made it worse. In a year when it feels like everybody is making everything worse, that's worth two minutes of your life. Watch it. Then watch the people around you a little differently for the rest of the day. --- 29/ ONE MORE THING BEFORE YOU PRESS PLAY Put the phone down in a quiet room if you can. Not in a queue. Not in a lift. Not between two meetings. Give it the space the animal asked for. --- 30/ WHO THIS VIDEO IS FOR If you've ever felt like the world is getting louder and colder, this is for you. If you've ever been afraid of something and done the right thing anyway, this is for you. If you've ever helped something that couldn't thank you, this is for you. If you grew up looking at the sky and wondering what it would be like to be that free, and that strong, and that far from everything, this one is definitely for you. And if you're the kind of person who says "I don't have time for a two-minute video," I get it. I really do. But I'd bet money that you'll watch it twice. --- 31/ THE REAL REASON I'M POSTING THIS I could have written a 280-character caption. A joke. A "wait for it." A little emoji. I wrote this instead because some videos deserve a slower introduction. Not because they need explaining. Because they need you to arrive in the right mood. You can't watch this while half-distracted. You can't watch it while composing a reply. You can't watch it while thinking about what you'll post next. It asks for your attention the way the animal asks for space: quietly, and without any guarantee. Give it two minutes. If you don't feel anything, you can come back and tell me I was wrong. I'll take the hit. But I don't think I'm wrong. --- 32/ A PREDICTION By the end of the week, this video will be in your group chat. Someone will send it with no caption, just three exclamation marks. Someone else will reply "WHAT." A third person will say "wait, is that real?" and someone who has already watched it will say "watch the whole thing." That's how the good ones travel. Not through algorithms. Through people saying to each other: you have to see this. So. I'm saying it. You have to see this. --- 33/ IF YOU'RE STILL READING You made it this far, which tells me one of two things. Either you're already curious, or you're the kind of person who reads long posts to the end. Both of those people will love this video. Here's what I'd suggest. Scroll up. Press play. Turn the sound on. Put the phone in both hands, like you're holding something that might wake up. And when it's over, come back here and tell me one thing. Not "wow." Not "amazing." Tell me the exact second you stopped breathing. Everybody has one. I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours. --- 34/ WHY I'LL WATCH IT AGAIN TOMORROW Most videos, I watch once and forget by dinner. A few, I watch and keep. This is one I keep. Not for the shock. The shock fades. I keep it because it reminds me that the world still has moments you can't script, can't fake and can't predict: moments where something wild and something gentle end up in the same place at the same time, and the outcome depends entirely on a few quiet decisions. I keep it because it makes me want to be the kind of person who stays calm when it counts. And I keep it because every time I rewatch it, I notice one small thing I missed. You will too. --- 35/ THE LAST THING Somewhere out there right now, there is a wild animal in a place it shouldn't be, running out of options, deciding whether the nearest human is a threat or a chance. Most of the time, nobody is there. Sometimes somebody is. And sometimes, once in a long while, that somebody does the quiet, careful, unglamorous thing that turns a frightening moment into a story worth telling. That's what you're about to watch. Not a bird in a car. A very large, very wild thing that made a very small, very human choice possible. Press play. Then send it to someone. Then tell me what you saw. P.S. If this post made you curious, you're exactly who the video was made for. If it didn't, watch it anyway. Ten seconds in, you'll understand why I wrote 25,000 characters about a moment that most people would have tried to explain in one. Repost it for the person who needs to see it today.
2:17

A wild eagle got into his car. That's not the strange part. The strange part is that it didn't want to leave. Read that again, because it breaks everything you think you know about wild animals. An eagle is not a pigeon. It is not a stray dog. It is not a cat that wandered into your garage. It is a predator built over millions of years to avoid exactly one thing: being close to you. And yet. I watched this video more times than I'd admit. Not because it's cute. Not because it's scary. Because somewhere around the second minute, I realized I was holding my breath, and couldn't tell you why. So let me tell you what this post is about, and what it is NOT about. It is not about a bird in a car. It is about what happens in the quiet space between a wild animal and a human being when the animal has run out of options and chooses to stop running. Let's go. --- 1/ THE RULE EVERYONE BREAKS There is one rule in wildlife work. People who spend their lives around raptors repeat it like a prayer: A healthy wild bird of prey does not come to you. Not for food. Not for warmth. Not for shelter. Not ever. An eagle that lets you walk up to it is not brave. It is not tame. It is not "friendly." It is a bird that has decided the danger in front of it is smaller than the danger it was already in. Think about what that means. Think about how bad things have to get for the apex predator of the sky to look at a human being and quietly decide: "Okay. You. Maybe you." Most people never see that moment. They hear about it later, in a sentence that starts with "apparently, this bird just..." This time somebody was rolling. --- 2/ WHY YOU CAN'T LOOK AWAY (AND IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT) Your brain has a built-in alarm for two things at the same time: power and vulnerability. Show it a lion, it goes quiet and sharp. Show it a baby bird, it softens. Show it both in the same body and something short-circuits. That's what an injured eagle is. A creature that looks like a weapon and behaves like a plea. The talons are enormous. The beak is a hooked blade. The eyes have a stare most humans can't hold for more than a few seconds. Everything about the animal says: stay away. And everything about its behavior says: please don't. That contradiction is the entire video. You will feel it in your chest before you can name it. Most of us don't have a word for this feeling because we almost never get to have it. --- 3/ THE SIZE PROBLEM Quick exercise. Before you watch, try to hold a number in your head. How big do you think an eagle is? Most people say "like a big chicken." Maybe a large cat. Then you see one inside a normal car, on a normal seat, next to normal car things like seat belts and a steering wheel, and your brain refuses the scale. The car suddenly looks small. The man suddenly looks small. And there is a moment in this video where you will do a thing nearly everyone does: you will pause, lean back from your screen, and say "no way that's real." It's real. --- 4/ WHAT THE MAN DID NEXT (WILL SURPRISE YOU) I'm not going to tell you. I'll tell you what I expected, though. I expected panic. I expected screaming, a door flung open, a phone dropped, a very short video that ends with a blur and a swear word. That's the internet's favorite genre. You know it. A person encounters an animal, loses their mind, the clip is 8 seconds long, everyone laughs. This is not that clip. This clip runs a little over two minutes. And it holds you the whole way. Because what happens inside that car is less like a funny video and more like watching somebody defuse something. Slow. Careful. Almost polite. You'll catch yourself whispering at your screen. You'll catch yourself telling a stranger what to do. --- 5/ THE SOUND Turn the volume on. I'm serious. Not "recommended." Required. Half of what makes this video land is not what you see. It's what you hear: a man who is clearly, absolutely, completely out of his depth, talking his way through it anyway, one half-joke and one swear word at a time. Humor is what people do when the situation is bigger than they are. Somewhere in there is a lesson that has nothing to do with eagles. --- 6/ THE PART NOBODY TALKS ABOUT Everybody who comments on this video says the same three things: "Wow, the eagle is huge." "Wow, that guy is calm." "Wow, I would've screamed." Almost nobody says the fourth thing, which is the only one that matters: It's a rescue. Not a rescue of the bird. Well, yes, of the bird. But more precisely, it's a rescue that only works because two completely different kinds of creature agree, for a few minutes, to not do what their instincts are screaming at them to do. One of them is built to strike. The other is built to flee. Neither does. If you've ever wondered what trust looks like when neither side has words, this is the closest thing I've ever seen on a screen. --- 7/ THE THING ABOUT STILLNESS We live in a world that rewards motion. Post more. Reply faster. Move. Pivot. Hustle. Scale. And then there's a video where the most powerful thing in the entire frame is a creature sitting completely still, and the second most powerful is a man doing his best to match it. Nobody is performing. Nobody is trying to go viral. (Which is exactly why it will.) No sponsored segment. No "wait for it." Just stillness, and tension, and a decision being made in real time by two living things that can't explain themselves to each other. I've been on this platform for over a decade. I've seen what spreads. And it's almost never the loud stuff. It's the stuff that makes your whole feed go quiet for a second. This does that. --- 8/ SEVEN THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT EAGLES AFTER THIS VIDEO BROKE MY BRAIN I went down a rabbit hole. Here's what I came back with. → An eagle's eyesight is estimated to be several times sharper than a human's. It can pick out a rabbit from a distance at which you couldn't tell a person from a post. It sees in a way you simply do not. When it looks at you from close range, it is not "looking." It is reading. → Their grip is brutal. The talons are built to lock, and the locking mechanism works with the bird's own weight. In other words, the harder it settles, the harder it holds. A bird like that does not need to try to be dangerous. Dangerous is the default setting. → Raptors hide pain. This is the one that got me. In the wild, a bird that shows weakness gets challenged, robbed or eaten. So they do the opposite of what we do: the worse they feel, the quieter and stiller they become. A calm eagle is not always a healthy eagle. → Many birds of prey are surprisingly light for their size. Huge wingspan, hollow-boned frame, almost nothing underneath all those feathers. The "giant" you see is mostly an illusion built from wings. Which makes the next part even stranger. → They are not social with humans. At all. Raptors are solitary hunters. There is no instinct in there that says "find the nearest person and sit next to them." If an eagle is near you and not leaving, something has gone wrong, or something has gone very, very right. → Eagles live long lives, and they hold territory with an almost military seriousness. To end up far from where it belongs, inside a machine it doesn't understand, surrounded by smells it has never encountered, is as far outside its world as a bird can be pushed. → And the last one: they don't do "sorry" and they don't do "thank you." There is no grateful look. If you're waiting for the moment where the bird bows its head, you'll be waiting forever. That's why the ending of this video hits the way it does. I won't say more. --- 9/ THE FIRST TEN SECONDS If you only give this video ten seconds, you'll understand it. If you give it a full minute, you'll have a hard time leaving. Ten seconds is enough because the whole story is in the frame at once: the scale, the closeness, the stillness, the human who has just realized that his day has changed. You don't need context. You don't need a caption. You don't need me. And that is the highest compliment I know how to give a video on this platform. Most content needs an explanation. This content needs a witness. Be the witness. --- 10/ WHY THE COMMENTS ARE GOING TO BE WILD I can already tell you what's coming, because I've seen this exact pattern on a thousand posts: First wave: "FAKE." Second wave: "It's trained." Third wave: "Why didn't he just open the door?" Fourth wave: someone who actually works with birds, calmly explaining what's going on in a way that makes everyone else feel slightly embarrassed. Fifth wave: a quiet reply that just says "I'm not crying, you're crying." If you're going to join the conversation, at least watch to the end first. The end is the answer to about 80% of the arguments. --- 11/ THE QUESTION THAT WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE I keep thinking about one thing. Why a car? Out of all the places in a whole landscape, why that one? Maybe it was open. Maybe it was dark. Maybe it was warm. Maybe it was the only enclosed space for miles. Maybe the bird was hurt and needed to be somewhere with walls. Maybe it was a coincidence. Here's what I think. And I'm saying "think," not "know." I think when a creature is hurt badly enough, it stops choosing the best place and starts choosing the nearest one. Not the safest. Not the smartest. The nearest. And the nearest thing happened to be a man, a seat, a roof, and a few feet of air that felt, to a frightened animal, like the closest thing to a cave. If that's true, it's a very uncomfortable idea. Because it means the bird didn't pick him. It means he was just the one who was there. And the whole story, everything after, depends on what he decided to do with that. --- 12/ THE MOMENT YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT'S COMING There's a beat in the video where you will be absolutely certain you know where this is going. You'll feel your brain build the ending. It will feel obvious. It will be wrong. I won't say how. But I'll say this: watch the person, not the bird. The bird is the headline. The person is the story. The more I watched, the more I noticed that the camera was never really on the eagle. It was on the human who had to decide what kind of person he was going to be in the next five minutes. That's a good test for anything you watch online: Is this video about the thing in the frame? Or is it about the choice someone is making just outside it? The best ones are always the second kind. --- 13/ A NOTE FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK THIS IS "JUST A CUTE ANIMAL VIDEO" It isn't. Cute animal videos are interchangeable. Puppy falls over. Cat stares at a wall. Hamster eats a tiny burrito. You scroll past, you smile, you forget. This is the other end of the spectrum. This video is not cute. This video is tense. It's patient. It's got weight. It sits in your chest for a while after it ends. If you want to know whether a clip is actually good, ask yourself one question an hour after you watch it: Can I still see it? I can still see this one. --- 14/ THE THING ABOUT BEING THE ONLY WITNESS Imagine this happening and nobody filming. A man. A car. An eagle. A decision. Nobody would believe it. He'd tell the story at a dinner and people would nod politely and think: sure. The camera changes everything. Not because it makes the story true, but because it makes the story shareable. And shareable is how good things survive. So here's what I ask. If you watch this and it gets to you, don't just like it and move on. Send it to one person who needs a reason to believe that the world still does unexpected, gentle things. You know who that person is. --- 15/ THE CONTRAST THAT MAKES IT WORK Great stories run on contrast. Always. Predator and prey. Strength and fragility. Speed and stillness. Fear and calm. A wild creature and a very ordinary place. This video stacks all of it. An animal that belongs to the open sky, pressed into the smallest space it has probably ever occupied. A human being whose biggest worry that morning was probably something like traffic or a phone battery. A moment that should be a disaster and keeps refusing to become one. When those contrasts sit that close together, they stop being opposites. They start being a conversation. It's the same reason a candle looks brighter in a dark room. --- 16/ WHAT YOUR BRAIN IS DOING WHILE YOU WATCH For the nerds. I love the nerds. Three things are happening in your head while this plays. One: threat detection. You are looking at a large predator in a confined space, and a very old part of your brain is running a calculation about how many seconds it would take to get out. It's doing this whether you want it to or not. Two: empathy. A second system, the one that makes you wince when you see someone stub a toe, is reading the posture of an animal that is clearly not at its best. It's asking whether the creature is okay. Three: prediction. A third system is trying to guess what happens next, over and over, every second, and the video keeps making that guess slightly wrong. Three engines, running together, pulling in different directions. That's why you can't scroll. Your brain is busy. --- 17/ "BUT WHAT DID IT FEEL LIKE TO BE THERE?" I'll be honest. I don't know. I've never had a wild raptor sitting behind me while I tried to work out what to do with my hands. But I've thought about it a lot, and I think it feels like the opposite of a movie. In a movie, the music tells you what to feel. You get the swell, the cut, the close-up. In real life, there's nothing. Just air. And a thing that's alive in a way you can't negotiate with, in the same space as you, and a clock you can't see. Nobody tells you what to do. You just have to do something. That's the part the video gets right without even trying. You are not watching a performance. You are watching someone make it up as they go. --- 18/ THE ENDING (I'M NOT GOING TO SPOIL IT, BUT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU HOW IT FEELS) You know the feeling at the end of a long flight, when the wheels touch the ground and the whole cabin exhales? It's that. You don't know you've been tense until it stops. And then, a second later, something quieter shows up. Not happiness exactly. More like relief with a little bit of awe mixed in, the feeling you get when you realize you just watched something that was not supposed to go this well. I've been on the internet a long time. That feeling is rarer than it should be. If you've been scrolling through outrage for the last hour, give yourself two minutes of this. Your nervous system will thank you. --- 19/ WHY THIS IS THE ANTIDOTE Open any feed right now and count how many posts are trying to make you angry. Ten? Twenty? Now count how many are trying to make you feel something steady and good about the world, without pretending that the world is simple. This video is one of those. And the reason it works is that it doesn't ask you to ignore anything. It doesn't tell you everything is fine. It shows you a situation where things could have gone wrong in at least five different ways, and then it shows you what happens when the people involved choose patience. That is not a naive message. That is the hardest message there is. --- 20/ THE PEOPLE YOU DON'T SEE Here's a thing that bothers me about viral videos. We always celebrate the person who stands in front of the camera. We almost never celebrate the people behind them: the ones who show up when called, who do the slow and unglamorous work, who carry what needs carrying, who stay with something frightened until it isn't. Wildlife rescue is almost entirely made of those people. Volunteers. Rangers. Rehabilitators. People who pick up the phone at strange hours and say "okay, I'm on my way," and then drive somewhere with a carrier and a towel and no guarantee of a good outcome. If this video makes you feel something, let it make you feel something about them too. They're the reason a lot of stories like this have an ending at all. --- 21/ THE LINE I KEEP REPEATING "A wild animal that stops running is asking you a question." I wrote that down after my third viewing, and I've been turning it over ever since. Because most of us, when we meet something frightening, ask ourselves: how do I get away? Almost none of us ask: what is it trying to say? The man in this video asks the second question. Whether he knows it or not. That's the difference between a clip that makes you gasp and a clip that makes you think. --- 22/ A SMALL RULE FOR YOUR OWN LIFE If you ever find yourself near an injured wild animal, here's the unglamorous, boring, correct advice that every rehabilitator will give you: Don't be a hero. Keep your distance. Keep your voice low. Keep your hands to yourself. Don't pick it up, don't feed it, don't try to fix it on your own, and call the people whose entire job is to know what to do. Wild animals can be hurt by well-meaning help, and they can hurt you, too. I say this because I know exactly what a video like this makes people want to do. It makes people want to rush in. Don't. Call someone who knows. That's the real heroism, and it's less photogenic, and it saves more lives. --- 23/ THE SENTENCE THAT CAME UP IN MY HEAD AT THE END "Some things only happen if you stay calm for long enough." I don't know if that's true. I know it's what I thought. I think it's true of eagles. I think it's true of people. I think it's true of most of the hard things we're afraid of: the conversation, the diagnosis, the email, the leap. The version of you that panics is not stupid. It's just early. If you can hold still just a little longer than your instincts want you to, the situation will usually show you something it was hiding. That's it. That's the thesis of the entire post. You didn't need an eagle for it. But an eagle makes it a lot harder to forget. --- 24/ FIVE THINGS TO WATCH FOR (ZERO SPOILERS) Pay attention to these, and the video becomes a different video. → The distance. Not between the man and the bird. Between the bird and everything else it could have done. → The hands. Not what they do, but what they don't do for as long as they possibly can. → The words. Every line is human, unpolished, and a little scared. That's the point. → The silence between the words. It's longer than you expect and it tells you more than the dialogue. → The change of scenery. The story doesn't end where you think it will. Stay for the second half. The second half is the reason this post exists. If you do that, you won't just watch it. You'll remember it. --- 25/ THE SCREENSHOT TEST Here's a trick I use to decide whether a video is worth sharing. Pause it at a random moment. Any moment. If the frozen image still tells a story, you have something special. If it's just a blur or a talking head, you have content. Pause this one anywhere. Anywhere at all. It's a painting. A creature that belongs to the sky, a very ordinary human world, and a tension between them so thick you could rest your hand on it. It works as a still. It works as a clip. It works at half speed. It works with the sound off, although you shouldn't do that to yourself. That's rare. Videos built on real moments have it. Videos built on engineering never do. --- 26/ A PROMISE I'm not selling anything. No course. No link in bio. No thread of "10 lessons from an eagle for your startup." (Okay, one of those earlier sections came dangerously close. I'm aware.) I just watched something that made me stop, and in a feed full of things that make me scroll faster, that felt like a small miracle. So the promise is simple. If you give it your two minutes, you won't feel like you wasted them. If you do, say so. I can take it. --- 27/ WHAT A WILD ANIMAL TEACHES YOU ABOUT TIMING There's a rhythm to moments like this, and it isn't the rhythm of the internet. The internet is fast. Cut, cut, cut. Hook, payoff, next. This video moves at the speed of something that's afraid and something that's trying not to add to it. Slowly. Carefully. With long pauses where nothing seems to happen and everything is actually happening. That's why it's so hard to describe and so easy to feel. A fast video asks for your eyes. A slow video asks for your pulse. This one gets it. --- 28/ IF YOU ONLY REMEMBER ONE THING Don't remember the size of the bird. Don't remember the car. Remember that for a few minutes, a frightened wild animal and a startled human being shared a very small space, and neither one made it worse. In a year when it feels like everybody is making everything worse, that's worth two minutes of your life. Watch it. Then watch the people around you a little differently for the rest of the day. --- 29/ ONE MORE THING BEFORE YOU PRESS PLAY Put the phone down in a quiet room if you can. Not in a queue. Not in a lift. Not between two meetings. Give it the space the animal asked for. --- 30/ WHO THIS VIDEO IS FOR If you've ever felt like the world is getting louder and colder, this is for you. If you've ever been afraid of something and done the right thing anyway, this is for you. If you've ever helped something that couldn't thank you, this is for you. If you grew up looking at the sky and wondering what it would be like to be that free, and that strong, and that far from everything, this one is definitely for you. And if you're the kind of person who says "I don't have time for a two-minute video," I get it. I really do. But I'd bet money that you'll watch it twice. --- 31/ THE REAL REASON I'M POSTING THIS I could have written a 280-character caption. A joke. A "wait for it." A little emoji. I wrote this instead because some videos deserve a slower introduction. Not because they need explaining. Because they need you to arrive in the right mood. You can't watch this while half-distracted. You can't watch it while composing a reply. You can't watch it while thinking about what you'll post next. It asks for your attention the way the animal asks for space: quietly, and without any guarantee. Give it two minutes. If you don't feel anything, you can come back and tell me I was wrong. I'll take the hit. But I don't think I'm wrong. --- 32/ A PREDICTION By the end of the week, this video will be in your group chat. Someone will send it with no caption, just three exclamation marks. Someone else will reply "WHAT." A third person will say "wait, is that real?" and someone who has already watched it will say "watch the whole thing." That's how the good ones travel. Not through algorithms. Through people saying to each other: you have to see this. So. I'm saying it. You have to see this. --- 33/ IF YOU'RE STILL READING You made it this far, which tells me one of two things. Either you're already curious, or you're the kind of person who reads long posts to the end. Both of those people will love this video. Here's what I'd suggest. Scroll up. Press play. Turn the sound on. Put the phone in both hands, like you're holding something that might wake up. And when it's over, come back here and tell me one thing. Not "wow." Not "amazing." Tell me the exact second you stopped breathing. Everybody has one. I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours. --- 34/ WHY I'LL WATCH IT AGAIN TOMORROW Most videos, I watch once and forget by dinner. A few, I watch and keep. This is one I keep. Not for the shock. The shock fades. I keep it because it reminds me that the world still has moments you can't script, can't fake and can't predict: moments where something wild and something gentle end up in the same place at the same time, and the outcome depends entirely on a few quiet decisions. I keep it because it makes me want to be the kind of person who stays calm when it counts. And I keep it because every time I rewatch it, I notice one small thing I missed. You will too. --- 35/ THE LAST THING Somewhere out there right now, there is a wild animal in a place it shouldn't be, running out of options, deciding whether the nearest human is a threat or a chance. Most of the time, nobody is there. Sometimes somebody is. And sometimes, once in a long while, that somebody does the quiet, careful, unglamorous thing that turns a frightening moment into a story worth telling. That's what you're about to watch. Not a bird in a car. A very large, very wild thing that made a very small, very human choice possible. Press play. Then send it to someone. Then tell me what you saw. P.S. If this post made you curious, you're exactly who the video was made for. If it didn't, watch it anyway. Ten seconds in, you'll understand why I wrote 25,000 characters about a moment that most people would have tried to explain in one. Repost it for the person who needs to see it today.

Earth Unveiled

151,100 просмотров • 14 дней назад

Abella Danger on Full Send says the biggest stereotype about porn is that girls do it for the money, claiming you barely make enough to risk millions of people watching and your parents and friends finding out: "I feel like the worst stereotype that there is is that girls just get into porn for money" "It's really so far from the truth" "You don't even make that much money in porn to really want to put yourself out there like that and have sex for millions of people to see" "And have your parents find out and your friends find out" "A lot of girls really do it because you want to experience your sexuality in a safe controlled environment" "Where if something goes wrong you can say cut, you can say stop" "Don't judge me or put me in this box as if you know me" "That's your assumption for the whole industry when I'm an individual and everyone is different"
1:02

Sensitive content

Abella Danger on Full Send says the biggest stereotype about porn is that girls do it for the money, claiming you barely make enough to risk millions of people watching and your parents and friends finding out: "I feel like the worst stereotype that there is is that girls just get into porn for money" "It's really so far from the truth" "You don't even make that much money in porn to really want to put yourself out there like that and have sex for millions of people to see" "And have your parents find out and your friends find out" "A lot of girls really do it because you want to experience your sexuality in a safe controlled environment" "Where if something goes wrong you can say cut, you can say stop" "Don't judge me or put me in this box as if you know me" "That's your assumption for the whole industry when I'm an individual and everyone is different"

CYRIX™

45,188 просмотров • 3 дней назад

Martin Casado explains AI as a fundamentally new abstraction layer of computing: "I don't think in the history of computer science that I can recall have we ever abdicated actual reasoning or logic. It's always been a resource. It's been like compute, network, and storage..." "And then the human is putting in the high-level thing, and it's using the compute, network, and storage to calculate the answer." "But now I feel like you're actually abdicating thinking in a way, where you're like, 'Tell me the answer.' Like, 'I'm not even really sure what the question is.'" "This is the first time it feels like a different layer of the stack. Maybe this really is the next abstraction, which is more of a human-level abstraction, which doesn't map directly and so is actually different... You kind of pray to the model god in the right words, and then it produces the answer that just ends up being useful." martin_casado
2:07

Martin Casado explains AI as a fundamentally new abstraction layer of computing: "I don't think in the history of computer science that I can recall have we ever abdicated actual reasoning or logic. It's always been a resource. It's been like compute, network, and storage..." "And then the human is putting in the high-level thing, and it's using the compute, network, and storage to calculate the answer." "But now I feel like you're actually abdicating thinking in a way, where you're like, 'Tell me the answer.' Like, 'I'm not even really sure what the question is.'" "This is the first time it feels like a different layer of the stack. Maybe this really is the next abstraction, which is more of a human-level abstraction, which doesn't map directly and so is actually different... You kind of pray to the model god in the right words, and then it produces the answer that just ends up being useful." martin_casado

a16z

36,147 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

A radical truth I discovered that will massively transform your life: I am not stuck because of someone or something outside of me. Look, friend, I feel you on this. Maybe you've been through something hard that left you reeling, wondering what's next and unable to breathe. What you went through may have been devastating, and it probably was. I have a friend who lost two sons in thirteen months. One died by suicide. The other had leukemia, and my friend donated his own bone marrow to save him. His son had a reaction to it and died. I lost one son, and griefs can't be ranked, but I can hardly take that one in. A loss like that can't be navigated without a compass that points your mind somewhere besides what you've been through. And it IS true that people have walked through unspeakable things and still moved forward. So how does one person get stuck while someone else finds a way forward? Here's what I realized: it's all about grabbing onto things you CAN control when life feels OUT of control. For me, I have to look at the responses, the decisions, and the mindsets I've built around what happened. Those are mine, and I can change them. The good news is, God built you to be able to find your feet again, and your brain will support you. "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." (2 Timothy 1:7, NKJV) You have been given a sound mind. You don't have to live in fear and anxiety and overwhelm. You don't have to let your ADHD, or your neurodivergence, or anything else you've been through keep you where you are. The fourth commandment of self-brain surgery is: I must believe that my mind is in charge of my brain. Your brain listens to your mind, and God designed it that way. I'm not whitewashing any of this. I went through the Iraq war, post-traumatic stress disorder, and a divorce, and then I lost my son. So I feel you. But I love you enough, and I'm a good enough doctor to shoot straight: you need to grab onto what you can change, and re-orient towards a more hopeful future. That's the only choice that holds any hope. This is hard and holy work. If you're stuck after something like that, what's required is a change in how you're looking at it, and a decision that tomorrow can be different than yesterday was. You won't be doing it alone. Go back to the operating room. I say "knife," and the scalpel is in my hand. That's how the Holy Spirit works with you. He won't make the incision for you, and he won't operate for you. But he did design your nervous system so that it can change. That's neuroplasticity: the wiring you use is the wiring that gets stronger. The tenth commandment of self-brain surgery is: I must understand that thoughts become things. "...for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure." (Philippians 2:13, ESV) So it's not self-reliance, but it is self-help. He hands you what you need, and he expects you to pick it up. Let's get after the business of healing. Share this with a friend who needs to get unstuck, and save it for later when you need a friendly reminder to move again. And follow me for daily connections between neuroscience and faith that will help you in your quest for healing, hope, and higher performance in your life. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best selling book, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery. #neuroscience #mentalhealth #hope #anxiety #selfbrainsurgery
1:11

A radical truth I discovered that will massively transform your life: I am not stuck because of someone or something outside of me. Look, friend, I feel you on this. Maybe you've been through something hard that left you reeling, wondering what's next and unable to breathe. What you went through may have been devastating, and it probably was. I have a friend who lost two sons in thirteen months. One died by suicide. The other had leukemia, and my friend donated his own bone marrow to save him. His son had a reaction to it and died. I lost one son, and griefs can't be ranked, but I can hardly take that one in. A loss like that can't be navigated without a compass that points your mind somewhere besides what you've been through. And it IS true that people have walked through unspeakable things and still moved forward. So how does one person get stuck while someone else finds a way forward? Here's what I realized: it's all about grabbing onto things you CAN control when life feels OUT of control. For me, I have to look at the responses, the decisions, and the mindsets I've built around what happened. Those are mine, and I can change them. The good news is, God built you to be able to find your feet again, and your brain will support you. "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." (2 Timothy 1:7, NKJV) You have been given a sound mind. You don't have to live in fear and anxiety and overwhelm. You don't have to let your ADHD, or your neurodivergence, or anything else you've been through keep you where you are. The fourth commandment of self-brain surgery is: I must believe that my mind is in charge of my brain. Your brain listens to your mind, and God designed it that way. I'm not whitewashing any of this. I went through the Iraq war, post-traumatic stress disorder, and a divorce, and then I lost my son. So I feel you. But I love you enough, and I'm a good enough doctor to shoot straight: you need to grab onto what you can change, and re-orient towards a more hopeful future. That's the only choice that holds any hope. This is hard and holy work. If you're stuck after something like that, what's required is a change in how you're looking at it, and a decision that tomorrow can be different than yesterday was. You won't be doing it alone. Go back to the operating room. I say "knife," and the scalpel is in my hand. That's how the Holy Spirit works with you. He won't make the incision for you, and he won't operate for you. But he did design your nervous system so that it can change. That's neuroplasticity: the wiring you use is the wiring that gets stronger. The tenth commandment of self-brain surgery is: I must understand that thoughts become things. "...for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure." (Philippians 2:13, ESV) So it's not self-reliance, but it is self-help. He hands you what you need, and he expects you to pick it up. Let's get after the business of healing. Share this with a friend who needs to get unstuck, and save it for later when you need a friendly reminder to move again. And follow me for daily connections between neuroscience and faith that will help you in your quest for healing, hope, and higher performance in your life. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best selling book, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery. #neuroscience #mentalhealth #hope #anxiety #selfbrainsurgery

Dr. Lee Warren

16,757 просмотров • 19 дней назад

$HIMS 🚨 NEEDHAM'S RYAN MACDONALD SAYS HIS "BASE CASE" IS THAT PEPTIDES WILL BE APPROVED Jonathan Stern: "I have seen a ton of alarmist tweets saying, 'RIP to the peptide bros', essentially. And what you're saying, Ryan, is that it's really not that simple." "We have a process here. We're going to go to PCAC. PCAC is going to make a recommendation to the FDA. But after the PCAC recommendation, the FDA gets to decide. Is that right?" Ryan MacDonald: "Yeah. That's correct... PCAC can make its recommendation and then from there it goes to FDA to make a final decision." "And based on the research that I've done... the final decision goes to the top, goes to the head of the FDA [RFK Jr.]." "It would be surprising to me if there wasn't some sort of involvement from RFK given how vocal he has been." "It's the FDA leadership's domain to make the final decision on this."
2:34

$HIMS 🚨 NEEDHAM'S RYAN MACDONALD SAYS HIS "BASE CASE" IS THAT PEPTIDES WILL BE APPROVED Jonathan Stern: "I have seen a ton of alarmist tweets saying, 'RIP to the peptide bros', essentially. And what you're saying, Ryan, is that it's really not that simple." "We have a process here. We're going to go to PCAC. PCAC is going to make a recommendation to the FDA. But after the PCAC recommendation, the FDA gets to decide. Is that right?" Ryan MacDonald: "Yeah. That's correct... PCAC can make its recommendation and then from there it goes to FDA to make a final decision." "And based on the research that I've done... the final decision goes to the top, goes to the head of the FDA [RFK Jr.]." "It would be surprising to me if there wasn't some sort of involvement from RFK given how vocal he has been." "It's the FDA leadership's domain to make the final decision on this."

Hims House

20,461 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

Google Brain founder, Andrew Ng: "One of the most important skills of the future is the ability to tell a computer exactly what you want so it can do it for you." In this talk, he explains why the biggest opportunity isn't just using AI. It's learning how to turn work into agentic workflows, break tasks into steps, give agents the right tools and context, add evals, and make the whole system reliable. That's the difference between prompting an AI and engineering an agent that actually works. Watch it today, then read the full guide in the article below.
26:58

Google Brain founder, Andrew Ng: "One of the most important skills of the future is the ability to tell a computer exactly what you want so it can do it for you." In this talk, he explains why the biggest opportunity isn't just using AI. It's learning how to turn work into agentic workflows, break tasks into steps, give agents the right tools and context, add evals, and make the whole system reliable. That's the difference between prompting an AI and engineering an agent that actually works. Watch it today, then read the full guide in the article below.

Rahul

14,431 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

Chuck Colson in 2011 explaining the personal drift that led to his eventual downfall in the Watergate Scandal: "Nobody consciously starts out and says, 'I'm going to obstruct justice.' That's crazy...I never thought I could be compromised, and that's when you're most vulnerable. Pride creates self-righteousness, and I discovered that human beings have the infinite capacity for self-rationalization. And the only way you can avoid that is accountability with other people, if you have a commitment to Christ in your life, it's going to help a lot because it's going to keep you on your knees some days when you don't think you're the one running the world after all, or at least you're sober enough to realize that. But the human tendency is the harder you try to do everything right, the more likely you're going to do something wrong, because you're taking pride in it. I used to say nobody could ever compromise me. I went to jail. The lesson is that the human will is rebellious. The Apostle Paul laments in Romans 7, why is it that I know what is right, and I do what is wrong? And that's the human dilemma, and he wrote that as a believer. We're all vulnerable."
1:42

Chuck Colson in 2011 explaining the personal drift that led to his eventual downfall in the Watergate Scandal: "Nobody consciously starts out and says, 'I'm going to obstruct justice.' That's crazy...I never thought I could be compromised, and that's when you're most vulnerable. Pride creates self-righteousness, and I discovered that human beings have the infinite capacity for self-rationalization. And the only way you can avoid that is accountability with other people, if you have a commitment to Christ in your life, it's going to help a lot because it's going to keep you on your knees some days when you don't think you're the one running the world after all, or at least you're sober enough to realize that. But the human tendency is the harder you try to do everything right, the more likely you're going to do something wrong, because you're taking pride in it. I used to say nobody could ever compromise me. I went to jail. The lesson is that the human will is rebellious. The Apostle Paul laments in Romans 7, why is it that I know what is right, and I do what is wrong? And that's the human dilemma, and he wrote that as a believer. We're all vulnerable."

Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker

17,526 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад