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Alex Trimm retweeted
I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea.
I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics).
The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.
In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them.
They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it.
I think the single biggest superpower these people have is the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.
I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same.
I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that.
Number one tip: act with agency.
Alex Trimm retweeted
Beware people obsessed with outcomes instead of building outcome machines. Its worse than ever with AI, but these people existed before. Short term results above all else, etc. Don't fall into the trap. Invest in building strong fundamentals, invisible supports, and outcomes flow like water. An outcome machine.
Alex Trimm retweeted
I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.
Alex Trimm retweeted
This is a long thread about Square Enix, the Microsoft layoffs, AI, and Metcalfe's law.
Alex Trimm retweeted
Even the greatest country, if it loses the rule of law, will not have much left.
Alex Trimm retweeted
A single solar panel and a few kWh of storage can transform a person's life.
Full size refrigerator - 200 kWh/year
Induction cooktop - 200 kWh/year
Electric bike - 150 kWh/year
All-in-one washer/dryer - 100 kWh/year
Reverse osmosis water filter - 40 kWh/year
5 LED lights - 40 kWh/year
Laptop - 20 kWh/year
Cell phone - 5 kWh/year
Total - 755 kWh/year
Alex Trimm retweeted
If you are tired of all the chaos, now is your chance to vote to defeat the chaos agent.
Alex Trimm retweeted
The scariest costume you can imagine: Kathy Hochul and the ghost of congestion pricing
Alex Trimm retweeted
Why don't politicians ever talk abt zoning reform? American urban design is a health hazard imo. This would immediately open up a lot of real estate that otherwise the dems are talking abt having to spend taxpayer money building to reduce scarcity/ costs.
but Also the best city I ever lived in by far was Montreal cuz u can just live on top of shops I used to have my am coffee on the deck and say hi to like 10 friends walking past my balcony b4 I ever even left my house.
Living in a commercial area means u can walk to get everything u need. Better for environment. Everyone less isolated. The mental health benefits r palpable. I see a lot of valid lamenting of the loss of "third places" (social gathering points like bars, churches etc) . reducing zoning regulation makes the neighbourhood feel like a third place.
A lot cheaper than having to subsidize tons of housing and with added community benefits. I've def been to a lot of cities with commercial areas and office buildings just completely half empty. How is sf real estate so expensive when all the commercial spaces r ghost towns?
This seems like a solution dems and republicans can agree on that could be implemented extremely easily? Correct me if I'm missing smthn?
Alex Trimm retweeted
A reminder that Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House roof.
In the 1970s.
Only to watch Ronald Reagan take them down.
Alex Trimm retweeted
Has been said before but really is galling that the secret to a happy life is to be quite disciplined with your daily schedule
