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54,269 views • 6 days ago

Jensen Huang just said an empty executive seat is worth more than the wrong person sitting in it. That’s the CEO of one of the largest companies ever built. Huang: “An empty chair is better than a chair filled with the wrong person. And so I’m never in a hurry.” Every company on Earth treats a vacant executive role as an emergency. Huang treats it as protection. Because the wrong person in the right chair doesn’t just underperform. They corrupt everything around them. They make decisions that have to be unwound. They hire in their own image. They build systems someone has to tear down before real work can start. An empty chair does none of that. An empty chair has an error rate of zero. Most of the damage inside a company never comes from the wrong decision. It comes from the urgency to make one. Huang: “Whether it’s a missing CEO or missing VP of anything, the company will keep moving on. You just have to have the confidence.” That confidence isn’t personality. It’s architecture. Nvidia doesn’t collapse around an absence because it was never built to depend on any one person. Most companies are built around people. When the person leaves, the system breaks. Because the person was the system. Nvidia is built around standards. When the person leaves, the standard holds. The chair is empty. The standard isn’t. Huang: “It buys you enormous amounts of time until you find somebody that is a combination of a lot of things, including, you just like them.” Past every competence screen, every technical evaluation, every strategic assessment, the last question is the most human one there is. Do you want this person in the room. The entire corporate hiring machine optimizes for credentials, experience, and pedigree. Huang optimizes for all of that and then asks the one question no résumé can answer. Most companies hire to fill chairs. Nvidia hires to protect the standard. The company at the foundation of the AI revolution didn’t get there by filling every seat fast. It got there by leaving the wrong ones empty until the right person walked in.
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Jensen Huang just said an empty executive seat is worth more than the wrong person sitting in it. That’s the CEO of one of the largest companies ever built. Huang: “An empty chair is better than a chair filled with the wrong person. And so I’m never in a hurry.” Every company on Earth treats a vacant executive role as an emergency. Huang treats it as protection. Because the wrong person in the right chair doesn’t just underperform. They corrupt everything around them. They make decisions that have to be unwound. They hire in their own image. They build systems someone has to tear down before real work can start. An empty chair does none of that. An empty chair has an error rate of zero. Most of the damage inside a company never comes from the wrong decision. It comes from the urgency to make one. Huang: “Whether it’s a missing CEO or missing VP of anything, the company will keep moving on. You just have to have the confidence.” That confidence isn’t personality. It’s architecture. Nvidia doesn’t collapse around an absence because it was never built to depend on any one person. Most companies are built around people. When the person leaves, the system breaks. Because the person was the system. Nvidia is built around standards. When the person leaves, the standard holds. The chair is empty. The standard isn’t. Huang: “It buys you enormous amounts of time until you find somebody that is a combination of a lot of things, including, you just like them.” Past every competence screen, every technical evaluation, every strategic assessment, the last question is the most human one there is. Do you want this person in the room. The entire corporate hiring machine optimizes for credentials, experience, and pedigree. Huang optimizes for all of that and then asks the one question no résumé can answer. Most companies hire to fill chairs. Nvidia hires to protect the standard. The company at the foundation of the AI revolution didn’t get there by filling every seat fast. It got there by leaving the wrong ones empty until the right person walked in.

Dustin

11,719 views • 1 month ago

the camera being in a tight close up on both ilya and shane for the entirety of this scene, except for the moment when ilya is working up the courage to say he’s in love. it’s like for the whole conversation it’s just the two of them, there’s nobody else who matters, and then for a brief moment the shot widens as ilya considers the implications of the fact he’s in love with shane. the fact that the rest of the world DOES matter and will always be a presence in their relationship. we’ve been held in this moment between the two of them and by widening the shot, that intimacy is broken just for a second as we’re reminded that there is a world beyond the two of them and ilya is still in russia. what he’s doing is incredibly dangerous. then the camera tightens back into a close up as he realises he needs to say it anyway because all that matters is that he’s on the phone with shane and he’s in love with him. it really is just the two of them in this moment and he doesn’t want to let anyone else in.
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the camera being in a tight close up on both ilya and shane for the entirety of this scene, except for the moment when ilya is working up the courage to say he’s in love. it’s like for the whole conversation it’s just the two of them, there’s nobody else who matters, and then for a brief moment the shot widens as ilya considers the implications of the fact he’s in love with shane. the fact that the rest of the world DOES matter and will always be a presence in their relationship. we’ve been held in this moment between the two of them and by widening the shot, that intimacy is broken just for a second as we’re reminded that there is a world beyond the two of them and ilya is still in russia. what he’s doing is incredibly dangerous. then the camera tightens back into a close up as he realises he needs to say it anyway because all that matters is that he’s on the phone with shane and he’s in love with him. it really is just the two of them in this moment and he doesn’t want to let anyone else in.

frances 🏒

294,736 views • 8 months ago

A new father became so terrified of never learning anything again that he accidentally dismantled the biggest lie in education. His name is Josh Kaufman, and he wasn't a neuroscientist or a professor. He was an author working from home, running a business with his wife, with a newborn daughter who had just obliterated any concept of free time he thought he had. Around week 8 of sleep deprivation, he had the thought every parent has. I am never going to learn anything new ever again. And because he was the kind of person who responds to panic with research, he went to the library and started reading everything he could find about how humans acquire skills. He read book after book, study after study. Every single one said the same thing. 10,000 hours. He had a full-body reaction to that number. 10,000 hours is a full-time job for five years. He didn't have five years. He didn't have five hours. He had a newborn and a business and a wife who was also building a business in the same house. So he kept digging. And here is where it gets interesting. The 10,000 hour rule came from a researcher named K. Anders Ericsson at Florida State University. What Ericsson actually studied was professional athletes, world-class musicians, chess grandmasters people at the absolute tip of ultra-competitive, ultra-high-performing fields. His finding was that the people at the very top of those narrow fields had put in around 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. That is all the finding said. Then Malcolm Gladwell wrote Outliers in 2007, and the message went through a game of telephone that destroyed its meaning entirely. It takes 10,000 hours to reach the top of an ultra-competitive field became it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert, which became it takes 10,000 hours to become good at something, which became it takes 10,000 hours to learn something. That last statement is completely false. And the actual research had been showing something different the entire time. When cognitive psychologists study skill acquisition, they measure a graph that looks identical across every domain they have ever tested. At the start, performance is terrible. With a small amount of practice, it improves rapidly. Then it plateaus, and subsequent gains become much harder and slower to achieve. The steep part of that curve the jump from knowing nothing to being reasonably good happens much faster than anyone tells you. Not 10,000 hours. Not 1,000 hours. 20 hours. Kaufman tested this himself. He had always wanted to learn ukulele. He picked one up, put 20 hours of focused deliberate practice into it, and stood on a TEDx stage playing a medley of recognizable pop songs in front of a live audience. The crowd went wild. He then told them that performance was his 20th hour. But 20 hours is not just a number. There is a method inside it. The first step is to deconstruct the skill. Most things we think of as single skills are actually bundles of dozens of smaller skills. You do not need all of them. You need the ones that get you to your specific goal the fastest. In music, this means most songs use four or five chords. Learn those first. Ignore the rest until they matter. The second step is to learn just enough to self-correct. Get three to five resources books, courses, videos but do not use them as a reason to delay practice. The point of learning is not to master theory first. It is to get good enough at noticing your own mistakes that you can adjust as you go. The third step is to remove barriers to practice. Not through willpower. Through structure. If the instrument is in the case in the closet, you will not play it. If your phone is in the room, you will not focus. Kaufman was brutal about this. The environment does the work that discipline cannot sustain. The fourth step is the one that actually makes the system work. Pre-commit to 20 hours before you start. Here is why this matters. Every skill has what he called a frustration barrier. The early part of learning anything is genuinely terrible. You are incompetent and you know it. That feeling is so uncomfortable that most people quit before they ever cross to the other side of the curve. By pre-committing to 20 hours, you are making a contract with yourself to push through the frustration long enough to arrive at the part where things start clicking. The barrier to learning something new is never intellectual. It is emotional. We are afraid of feeling stupid. That fear costs most people everything they could have learned. Kaufman figured this out while holding a baby and running out of time, which is the most human possible condition for having a breakthrough. Most people are waiting for the perfect season to start. He just started. 20 hours is 45 minutes a day for a month. That is it. That is the price of going from knowing nothing to being genuinely capable at almost anything you can name. The 10,000 hour rule was never about learning. It was about becoming the best in the world. You probably do not need to be the best in the world. You just need to start.
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A new father became so terrified of never learning anything again that he accidentally dismantled the biggest lie in education. His name is Josh Kaufman, and he wasn't a neuroscientist or a professor. He was an author working from home, running a business with his wife, with a newborn daughter who had just obliterated any concept of free time he thought he had. Around week 8 of sleep deprivation, he had the thought every parent has. I am never going to learn anything new ever again. And because he was the kind of person who responds to panic with research, he went to the library and started reading everything he could find about how humans acquire skills. He read book after book, study after study. Every single one said the same thing. 10,000 hours. He had a full-body reaction to that number. 10,000 hours is a full-time job for five years. He didn't have five years. He didn't have five hours. He had a newborn and a business and a wife who was also building a business in the same house. So he kept digging. And here is where it gets interesting. The 10,000 hour rule came from a researcher named K. Anders Ericsson at Florida State University. What Ericsson actually studied was professional athletes, world-class musicians, chess grandmasters people at the absolute tip of ultra-competitive, ultra-high-performing fields. His finding was that the people at the very top of those narrow fields had put in around 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. That is all the finding said. Then Malcolm Gladwell wrote Outliers in 2007, and the message went through a game of telephone that destroyed its meaning entirely. It takes 10,000 hours to reach the top of an ultra-competitive field became it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert, which became it takes 10,000 hours to become good at something, which became it takes 10,000 hours to learn something. That last statement is completely false. And the actual research had been showing something different the entire time. When cognitive psychologists study skill acquisition, they measure a graph that looks identical across every domain they have ever tested. At the start, performance is terrible. With a small amount of practice, it improves rapidly. Then it plateaus, and subsequent gains become much harder and slower to achieve. The steep part of that curve the jump from knowing nothing to being reasonably good happens much faster than anyone tells you. Not 10,000 hours. Not 1,000 hours. 20 hours. Kaufman tested this himself. He had always wanted to learn ukulele. He picked one up, put 20 hours of focused deliberate practice into it, and stood on a TEDx stage playing a medley of recognizable pop songs in front of a live audience. The crowd went wild. He then told them that performance was his 20th hour. But 20 hours is not just a number. There is a method inside it. The first step is to deconstruct the skill. Most things we think of as single skills are actually bundles of dozens of smaller skills. You do not need all of them. You need the ones that get you to your specific goal the fastest. In music, this means most songs use four or five chords. Learn those first. Ignore the rest until they matter. The second step is to learn just enough to self-correct. Get three to five resources books, courses, videos but do not use them as a reason to delay practice. The point of learning is not to master theory first. It is to get good enough at noticing your own mistakes that you can adjust as you go. The third step is to remove barriers to practice. Not through willpower. Through structure. If the instrument is in the case in the closet, you will not play it. If your phone is in the room, you will not focus. Kaufman was brutal about this. The environment does the work that discipline cannot sustain. The fourth step is the one that actually makes the system work. Pre-commit to 20 hours before you start. Here is why this matters. Every skill has what he called a frustration barrier. The early part of learning anything is genuinely terrible. You are incompetent and you know it. That feeling is so uncomfortable that most people quit before they ever cross to the other side of the curve. By pre-committing to 20 hours, you are making a contract with yourself to push through the frustration long enough to arrive at the part where things start clicking. The barrier to learning something new is never intellectual. It is emotional. We are afraid of feeling stupid. That fear costs most people everything they could have learned. Kaufman figured this out while holding a baby and running out of time, which is the most human possible condition for having a breakthrough. Most people are waiting for the perfect season to start. He just started. 20 hours is 45 minutes a day for a month. That is it. That is the price of going from knowing nothing to being genuinely capable at almost anything you can name. The 10,000 hour rule was never about learning. It was about becoming the best in the world. You probably do not need to be the best in the world. You just need to start.

Ihtesham Ali

44,915 views • 4 months ago

Elon Musk was asked what the economy looks like in ten years. He didn’t describe a boom or a crash. He gave a date. Musk: “Money won’t matter in 2036.” He isn’t predicting collapse. He’s predicting so much supply that accounting can no longer describe it. Musk: “You need the end effectors in the form of humanoid robotics.” End effectors. Hands. Every economy that ever existed was capped by the number of hands available and the hours inside them. That cap is most of human history. Famine was a hands problem. Empire was a hands problem. Slavery was the worst answer anyone ever gave to a hands problem. Musk: “you can go from intelligence manifesting itself only digitally to shaping atoms.” Intelligence has been stuck behind glass since the first computer. Every idea it ever had still needed human hands to carry it out. Musk: “you have a sort of a quasi-infinite economy.” The interesting part isn’t whether the abundance arrives. It’s what money turns out to have been. Not paper. Not a number in an app. A dollar is a claim on somebody else’s hours. Every price you ever paid was a bid on a piece of a stranger’s life. Every wage you ever earned was somebody bidding on yours. So “money won’t matter” is not a sentence about currency. It’s a sentence about need. If nobody has to buy your hours, the claim has nothing left to point at. Musk: “You want money for food, housing, transport, entertainment.” That list is accurate, and it is the smallest a person has ever been reduced to. A stomach and an address. Nobody has ever wanted only that. Under every paycheck was a second thing that never printed on the stub. Proof that a stranger somewhere needed something only you could give. The economy was the largest machine ever built for making strangers necessary to each other. The goods were the byproduct. Every ancestor of yours worked so the next one wouldn’t have to. Nobody ever wrote down what to do on the day someone finally didn’t. We already know what happens when the supply arrives and the necessity leaves. We have run it one person at a time for a century. The retired man with a full account and nothing waiting for him in the morning. The lottery winner who comes apart with every need met. Nobody in that condition was ever cured by more. Musk: “There’s no analogy or metaphor that I think illustrates the magnitude of change that we’re going to experience here.” He’s right, and it runs deeper than economics. Every era before this one organized itself around scarcity. Take scarcity out and there is nothing left to compare it to. Notice what abundance never touches. Anything that can be copied falls to zero. What remains is everything that can’t. Land. Rank. Being first. The attention of one specific person who could be spending it somewhere else. Abundance doesn’t kill money. It strips it down to the only things it was ever really buying. The goods, the services, the things we spent ten thousand years calling wealth, turn out to have been the easy part. So the question waiting in 2036 isn’t how you’ll get by. Provision is handled. It’s what you answer when nothing requires you and everything is given. Most of us were never chosen. We were needed, and needed was close enough to live on. That difference has never once been tested. Abundance is the test. Nothing will be missing. You will be.
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Elon Musk was asked what the economy looks like in ten years. He didn’t describe a boom or a crash. He gave a date. Musk: “Money won’t matter in 2036.” He isn’t predicting collapse. He’s predicting so much supply that accounting can no longer describe it. Musk: “You need the end effectors in the form of humanoid robotics.” End effectors. Hands. Every economy that ever existed was capped by the number of hands available and the hours inside them. That cap is most of human history. Famine was a hands problem. Empire was a hands problem. Slavery was the worst answer anyone ever gave to a hands problem. Musk: “you can go from intelligence manifesting itself only digitally to shaping atoms.” Intelligence has been stuck behind glass since the first computer. Every idea it ever had still needed human hands to carry it out. Musk: “you have a sort of a quasi-infinite economy.” The interesting part isn’t whether the abundance arrives. It’s what money turns out to have been. Not paper. Not a number in an app. A dollar is a claim on somebody else’s hours. Every price you ever paid was a bid on a piece of a stranger’s life. Every wage you ever earned was somebody bidding on yours. So “money won’t matter” is not a sentence about currency. It’s a sentence about need. If nobody has to buy your hours, the claim has nothing left to point at. Musk: “You want money for food, housing, transport, entertainment.” That list is accurate, and it is the smallest a person has ever been reduced to. A stomach and an address. Nobody has ever wanted only that. Under every paycheck was a second thing that never printed on the stub. Proof that a stranger somewhere needed something only you could give. The economy was the largest machine ever built for making strangers necessary to each other. The goods were the byproduct. Every ancestor of yours worked so the next one wouldn’t have to. Nobody ever wrote down what to do on the day someone finally didn’t. We already know what happens when the supply arrives and the necessity leaves. We have run it one person at a time for a century. The retired man with a full account and nothing waiting for him in the morning. The lottery winner who comes apart with every need met. Nobody in that condition was ever cured by more. Musk: “There’s no analogy or metaphor that I think illustrates the magnitude of change that we’re going to experience here.” He’s right, and it runs deeper than economics. Every era before this one organized itself around scarcity. Take scarcity out and there is nothing left to compare it to. Notice what abundance never touches. Anything that can be copied falls to zero. What remains is everything that can’t. Land. Rank. Being first. The attention of one specific person who could be spending it somewhere else. Abundance doesn’t kill money. It strips it down to the only things it was ever really buying. The goods, the services, the things we spent ten thousand years calling wealth, turn out to have been the easy part. So the question waiting in 2036 isn’t how you’ll get by. Provision is handled. It’s what you answer when nothing requires you and everything is given. Most of us were never chosen. We were needed, and needed was close enough to live on. That difference has never once been tested. Abundance is the test. Nothing will be missing. You will be.

Dustin

39,098 views • 1 month ago

Jeff Bezos looked at a government waiting room and priced it at a hundred billion dollars. Bezos: “This is a $100 billion business, by the way. This is huge business.” That number is not ambition. It is a measurement. A company that size does not create a hundred billion dollars of new value here. It recovers a hundred billion that is already being destroyed, on schedule, in public, by a process everyone has agreed to call normal. The size of the opportunity is the size of the wound. Bezos: “They almost always say yes, they just make you wait a long time.” So the verdict was never in question. Only the delivery date. Which means the months bought nothing. They were storage. Your project sat in a room while the word yes waited its turn to be said. Nobody in there was deciding. Someone was scheduling. And the room bills by the day. Suarez: “The daily carrying cost, one day of interest, 200 to $400,000 per day.” Now find the recipient. There isn’t one. No school funded, no inspector paid, no safety review performed. A tax at least moves money into someone’s hands. This deletes it at four hundred thousand a day, and every dollar was real before the queue touched it. Bezos: “And that doesn’t count the frustration.” Count it anyway. It lands on a body long before it lands on a spreadsheet. Suarez: “Which is infinite. I have some white hairs as a result of this stuff.” That is the invoice. The money has a rate. The rest gets charged to the man, and he pays it whether the answer comes back yes or no. No one has ever been refunded a year. Every other cost in this economy can be hedged, insured, refinanced, or written off. Waiting is the only one that is final. A man will forgive being told no. He will never get back the time he spent standing there waiting to be told yes. We built a civilization that can move a decision at the speed of light and still schedule it at the speed of a man’s hair turning white. Bezos: “It should give you a yes or a no in 10 seconds. And if the answer is no, it should tell you the 6 things you have to change to get a yes.” For four thousand years the wait was honest. Someone had to hold the entire code in one head and walk it line by line against your drawings. Reading was slow because reading was human. That stopped being true in less time than it takes to approve one building. Bezos: “Maybe with AI it can just read all the plans. And it knows all the codes. Spit it out.” The constraint is gone. The wait stayed. Anything still moving at the old speed after the cost of thinking collapsed is not slow. It is choosing. The queue never protected you from a bad building. It protected a signature from a bad outcome. Nobody gets fired for the wait. They get fired for the answer. An institution has no lifespan, so time costs it nothing. You have one, so time is the only thing it can take. Every queue is a trade between something that dies and something that doesn’t, and only one side is ever charged. That trade held for the whole of recorded history because the mortal side had no leverage. It does now. Somebody is going to build this. A hundred billion does not sit in a waiting room forever. And the day it exists, the wait stops being a fact of the world and becomes a decision with a name attached. The hundred billion was never the prize. It is the receipt for how long we agreed to stand there. We are the first people alive who get to stop signing it.
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Jeff Bezos looked at a government waiting room and priced it at a hundred billion dollars. Bezos: “This is a $100 billion business, by the way. This is huge business.” That number is not ambition. It is a measurement. A company that size does not create a hundred billion dollars of new value here. It recovers a hundred billion that is already being destroyed, on schedule, in public, by a process everyone has agreed to call normal. The size of the opportunity is the size of the wound. Bezos: “They almost always say yes, they just make you wait a long time.” So the verdict was never in question. Only the delivery date. Which means the months bought nothing. They were storage. Your project sat in a room while the word yes waited its turn to be said. Nobody in there was deciding. Someone was scheduling. And the room bills by the day. Suarez: “The daily carrying cost, one day of interest, 200 to $400,000 per day.” Now find the recipient. There isn’t one. No school funded, no inspector paid, no safety review performed. A tax at least moves money into someone’s hands. This deletes it at four hundred thousand a day, and every dollar was real before the queue touched it. Bezos: “And that doesn’t count the frustration.” Count it anyway. It lands on a body long before it lands on a spreadsheet. Suarez: “Which is infinite. I have some white hairs as a result of this stuff.” That is the invoice. The money has a rate. The rest gets charged to the man, and he pays it whether the answer comes back yes or no. No one has ever been refunded a year. Every other cost in this economy can be hedged, insured, refinanced, or written off. Waiting is the only one that is final. A man will forgive being told no. He will never get back the time he spent standing there waiting to be told yes. We built a civilization that can move a decision at the speed of light and still schedule it at the speed of a man’s hair turning white. Bezos: “It should give you a yes or a no in 10 seconds. And if the answer is no, it should tell you the 6 things you have to change to get a yes.” For four thousand years the wait was honest. Someone had to hold the entire code in one head and walk it line by line against your drawings. Reading was slow because reading was human. That stopped being true in less time than it takes to approve one building. Bezos: “Maybe with AI it can just read all the plans. And it knows all the codes. Spit it out.” The constraint is gone. The wait stayed. Anything still moving at the old speed after the cost of thinking collapsed is not slow. It is choosing. The queue never protected you from a bad building. It protected a signature from a bad outcome. Nobody gets fired for the wait. They get fired for the answer. An institution has no lifespan, so time costs it nothing. You have one, so time is the only thing it can take. Every queue is a trade between something that dies and something that doesn’t, and only one side is ever charged. That trade held for the whole of recorded history because the mortal side had no leverage. It does now. Somebody is going to build this. A hundred billion does not sit in a waiting room forever. And the day it exists, the wait stops being a fact of the world and becomes a decision with a name attached. The hundred billion was never the prize. It is the receipt for how long we agreed to stand there. We are the first people alive who get to stop signing it.

Dustin

17,133 views • 1 month ago

This young lady was trying to finish her workout in the machine when another woman attempted to kick her off of it because she’s in a rush. The woman claimed the young lady was already on the machine for 10 minutes and felt entitled enough to say that it’s her turn now. What would you do? I would ignore her in hopes she walks away, at least the whole thing is on camera so she can report it. After working out for about 30 years now, I can say that most of the time gym people are pretty chill people. Every so often I see some Karen types beginning to come in and ruin the experience for other people. What I hate is they try to rush me off the machine only for them to sit there and scroll on their phone. I used to avoid the confrontation by just letting them use it, I can always come back to it I would say to myself. After seeing so many of them so comfortable with imposing their will on others I now just ignore them, I won’t even acknowledge them, that’s why I have headphones on anyways, it’s my excuse to ignore them without being rude. It doesn’t make sense to me by getting out of their way when I was first. I understand if I was on there for a long time then maybe I will let them go first but the way I see it, I am every bit entitled to use it when I get there first, I shouldn’t have to get out of the way just because they want me to. Would you do the same? I would like to think most people would agree with me on this matter.
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This young lady was trying to finish her workout in the machine when another woman attempted to kick her off of it because she’s in a rush. The woman claimed the young lady was already on the machine for 10 minutes and felt entitled enough to say that it’s her turn now. What would you do? I would ignore her in hopes she walks away, at least the whole thing is on camera so she can report it. After working out for about 30 years now, I can say that most of the time gym people are pretty chill people. Every so often I see some Karen types beginning to come in and ruin the experience for other people. What I hate is they try to rush me off the machine only for them to sit there and scroll on their phone. I used to avoid the confrontation by just letting them use it, I can always come back to it I would say to myself. After seeing so many of them so comfortable with imposing their will on others I now just ignore them, I won’t even acknowledge them, that’s why I have headphones on anyways, it’s my excuse to ignore them without being rude. It doesn’t make sense to me by getting out of their way when I was first. I understand if I was on there for a long time then maybe I will let them go first but the way I see it, I am every bit entitled to use it when I get there first, I shouldn’t have to get out of the way just because they want me to. Would you do the same? I would like to think most people would agree with me on this matter.

SonnyBoy🇺🇸

308,615 views • 1 month ago

A pilot put a passenger jet down on a river and got every person on board off alive. Within days, investigators were asking him what he had eaten for lunch. He told them a tuna sandwich. Then they asked whether he had had a candy bar. Whether he had had a soda. That is not small talk. There is a precise reason those 2 questions could have ended his career, and Tom Hanks lays it out in about 4 sentences. The pilot is Chesley Sullenberger. Hanks played him, spent time with him first, and says the man walked him through the entire script telling him which parts never happened. As Hanks was told it, the stake was money. If the board could establish that the pilot did 1 thing wrong, the insurance on an airplane he puts at 17 million dollars would not have to be paid out. Every question in that room was built for that. It went on for the better part of a year. In the film it takes days, because films cannot afford a year. What was happening to him has a name in psychology. Baruch Fischhoff described it in 1975 and called it creeping determinism. Once you know how something ended, the ending looks like it was always coming, and every road you did not take looks like it was sitting right there, clearly marked, the whole time. Which is why the question "why did you not do this instead" is close to unanswerable. It is asked by people who know the ending, to a person who did not have it. There is a second effect underneath, well documented in aviation and in medicine. The person at the centre of the investigation frequently comes out of it in worse condition than the people he saved. Researchers gave that person a name. He is the second victim. Hanks is 67 when he says this, and what he admires is not the landing. It is a distinction he makes in 1 sentence near the end, and it is the whole reason he told the story at all. He saved everyone on that plane. Then he spent a year proving he had not eaten a candy bar.
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A pilot put a passenger jet down on a river and got every person on board off alive. Within days, investigators were asking him what he had eaten for lunch. He told them a tuna sandwich. Then they asked whether he had had a candy bar. Whether he had had a soda. That is not small talk. There is a precise reason those 2 questions could have ended his career, and Tom Hanks lays it out in about 4 sentences. The pilot is Chesley Sullenberger. Hanks played him, spent time with him first, and says the man walked him through the entire script telling him which parts never happened. As Hanks was told it, the stake was money. If the board could establish that the pilot did 1 thing wrong, the insurance on an airplane he puts at 17 million dollars would not have to be paid out. Every question in that room was built for that. It went on for the better part of a year. In the film it takes days, because films cannot afford a year. What was happening to him has a name in psychology. Baruch Fischhoff described it in 1975 and called it creeping determinism. Once you know how something ended, the ending looks like it was always coming, and every road you did not take looks like it was sitting right there, clearly marked, the whole time. Which is why the question "why did you not do this instead" is close to unanswerable. It is asked by people who know the ending, to a person who did not have it. There is a second effect underneath, well documented in aviation and in medicine. The person at the centre of the investigation frequently comes out of it in worse condition than the people he saved. Researchers gave that person a name. He is the second victim. Hanks is 67 when he says this, and what he admires is not the landing. It is a distinction he makes in 1 sentence near the end, and it is the whole reason he told the story at all. He saved everyone on that plane. Then he spent a year proving he had not eaten a candy bar.

Stefan.

210,642 views • 11 days ago

Restaurateur Jeff Zalaznick says the "most iconic sign in fine dining" only exists because an angry former tenant shattered the original out of spite: “The sign is a crazy story.” “We'd been looking for a space for Carbone for over a year.” “One day a guy came up to me and said, ‘I think I have a space you might be interested in.’” “As we're walking up the block, I look at him and say, ‘We'll take it.’ Just from seeing the sign.” “The place is a mess. It hasn't been maintained in years. There's some old Italian guy in the corner smoking cigarettes that's been there not paying rent for six months.” “We put in the lease that we needed the sign. The sign had to stay. It didn't seem like a big ask.” “It's this old sign that says ‘Rocco Wines & Liquor.’” “Right before we were going to execute it, I get a phone call that the owner wants $10,000 for the sign to keep it there.” “Even though we gave him the money, in classic New York fashion, he was so angry that he was being removed, even though he hadn't paid rent in close to a year.” “When I show up on January 1st, there's shattered glass. All the neon had been shattered by him as like a ‘fuck you’ on the way out.” “After a few minutes, I'm like, I think this guy gave me the biggest gift he could have given me.” “We're going to keep this sign and instead we're going to put ‘Carbone’ in neon on top of the Rocco sign and put back the Wines and Liquor.” “And that became what is probably the most iconic sign in fine dining restaurants in the world.” “Only because he broke all those lights did it become the quintessential Carbone sign that it is.”
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Restaurateur Jeff Zalaznick says the "most iconic sign in fine dining" only exists because an angry former tenant shattered the original out of spite: “The sign is a crazy story.” “We'd been looking for a space for Carbone for over a year.” “One day a guy came up to me and said, ‘I think I have a space you might be interested in.’” “As we're walking up the block, I look at him and say, ‘We'll take it.’ Just from seeing the sign.” “The place is a mess. It hasn't been maintained in years. There's some old Italian guy in the corner smoking cigarettes that's been there not paying rent for six months.” “We put in the lease that we needed the sign. The sign had to stay. It didn't seem like a big ask.” “It's this old sign that says ‘Rocco Wines & Liquor.’” “Right before we were going to execute it, I get a phone call that the owner wants $10,000 for the sign to keep it there.” “Even though we gave him the money, in classic New York fashion, he was so angry that he was being removed, even though he hadn't paid rent in close to a year.” “When I show up on January 1st, there's shattered glass. All the neon had been shattered by him as like a ‘fuck you’ on the way out.” “After a few minutes, I'm like, I think this guy gave me the biggest gift he could have given me.” “We're going to keep this sign and instead we're going to put ‘Carbone’ in neon on top of the Rocco sign and put back the Wines and Liquor.” “And that became what is probably the most iconic sign in fine dining restaurants in the world.” “Only because he broke all those lights did it become the quintessential Carbone sign that it is.”

David Senra

235,562 views • 1 month ago

GSP says he lives by something called the 24 hour rule: 8 sleep. 8 work. 8 for the people you love "There are 24 hours in a day. I learned you need to separate your day into three parts: 8 hours sleep, 8 hours work, 8 hours for the people you love" "Before, I never did this. I was always mixing everything up, eating with my family while I was on the phone, bringing my training problems home, bringing my home problems to the gym. The stress took over. I didn't have time to sleep" "A friend taught me to compartmentalize, one part doesn't flow into the other. Of course sometimes work takes more and sleep less, but generally you need the time off. Otherwise you'll eventually go crazy" "When I started doing this, it changed everything. It created balance"
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GSP says he lives by something called the 24 hour rule: 8 sleep. 8 work. 8 for the people you love "There are 24 hours in a day. I learned you need to separate your day into three parts: 8 hours sleep, 8 hours work, 8 hours for the people you love" "Before, I never did this. I was always mixing everything up, eating with my family while I was on the phone, bringing my training problems home, bringing my home problems to the gym. The stress took over. I didn't have time to sleep" "A friend taught me to compartmentalize, one part doesn't flow into the other. Of course sometimes work takes more and sleep less, but generally you need the time off. Otherwise you'll eventually go crazy" "When I started doing this, it changed everything. It created balance"

katsu

51,521 views • 3 months ago