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'Fuck you money' explained in the movie The Gambler.
Jim Bennett: I've been up two and a half million dollars.
Frank: What you got on you?
Jim Bennett : Nothing.
Frank: What you put away?
Jim Bennett: Nothing.
Frank: You get up two and a half million dollars, any asshole in the world knows what to do: you get a house with a 25-year roof, an indestructible Jap-economy shitbox, you put the rest into the system at three to five percent to pay your taxes and that's your base, get me? That's your fortress of fucking solitude. That puts you, for the rest of your life, at a level of fuck you. Somebody wants you to do something, fuck you. Boss pisses you off, fuck you!
Own your house. Have a couple bucks in the bank. Don't drink. That's all I have to say to anybody on any social level. Did your grandfather take risks?
Jim Bennett: Yes.
Frank : I guarantee he did it from a position of fuck you. A wise man's life is based around fuck you. The United States of America is based on fuck you. You're a king? You have an army? Greatest navy in the history of the world? Fuck you! Blow me. We'll fuck it up ourselves.
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Amazing image below
A core parenting belief of mine:
One of the most important things we can do for our kids is help them learn the power of their imaginations
But you have to contend with the constant onslaught of overstimulating screens
Here's 2 ways we beat screens:
First: reading, every day, no exceptions
In addition to the obvious benefits of being a strong reader, stories in books help open up the imagination and broaden our kids' worlds.
They expand their ideas of what's possible. My advice is start the reading habit as early as possible, and let your kids see you reading as often as you can
Second: audio stories
As an alternative to screens, we listen to audio stories (I even create one for 3-8 year olds that I'll link in a follow-up post). We listen to them together with our oldest son. You can SEE him engaging with the audio in a way he never does with screens. You can see his brain working. You can see him filling in the blanks in his mind.
Whereas if he was just watching a screen, there are no blanks to fill in. No imagining, no envisioning. Just consuming.
"Imagination rules the world"
- Napoleon Bonaparte
This quote is more powerful than people realize
It's impossible to build anything if you can't first imagine it
Everything ever created by man first existed in someone's imagination
Imagination is a muscle. And too much screen time just atrophies it.
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Approximately 7% of all people who have ever lived are alive today
Make the most of it!
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25yrs since #phish 7/24/98 at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Woodlands, TX - their first show of two there (’98-’99). The set II opener Wolfman’s > 2001 was just the second time that combination was ever played to-date.
If Tupac Shakur and Bruce Hornsby had a baby there would be peace in Ukraine. “Thats just the way it is”
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So excited for TSwift the next couple of nights, I just found an old set list from her show in 1986, at the Hampton Coliseum, it was sick, the Enchanted into Karma was epic. The keyboard solo was fire, plus Taylor was killing it.
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More images here
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All @SpaceX launches from Cape Canaveral in 13 years.
Video by @Hazegrayart (youtube)
