Mr Beast says he could start a faceless channel tomorrow and hit 20 million subscribers in six months “I could start a new channel tomorrow not using my face or my voice without ever promoting it and in six months have 20 million subscribers” “It’s purely knowledge if you knew what I knew you could get 10 million views a video and 10 million subscribers no matter where you are right now within 6 months” “It really is just knowledge”

quick question how many books have you read so far this year

Ok l'embrouille du soir sur discord. C'est plus facile de : 1) Gagner un 1v1 au basket contre Victor Wembanyama 2) Gagner un tour de F1 vs Hamilton 3) Gagner une game d'echec vs Magnus Carlsen 4) Gagner un round vs Jon Jones en MMA Je veux des arguments

She accidentally described one of the most replicated findings in behavioral psychology. Harvard and Duke researchers found in 2011 that people value things they build themselves 63% higher than identical pre-assembled versions. They called it the IKEA effect. Labor alone, even assembling a standardized box from instructions, is enough to make people overvalue their own creations. Gardening runs this effect at full intensity. You chose the seeds. You dug the holes. You watered daily. By harvest, your brain has priced that tomato at roughly 10x grocery store rates, and the math feels completely justified. Now stack Kahneman and Tversky's loss aversion on top. Losses register at approximately 2x the emotional intensity of equivalent gains. One of the most replicated findings in behavioral economics. So the aphid eating her garden is triggering both simultaneously. She built something her brain values at 163% of objective worth. She's watching it get destroyed in real time. Her nervous system is processing that destruction at double intensity. The grocery store tomato being out of stock? Mild annoyance. Zero labor investment means zero IKEA effect, means proportional emotional response. The garden tomato carries months of accumulated effort justification. The aphid isn't eating a $4 tomato. Her brain priced it at $40 and is processing the loss at $80. Gardening is the only common hobby that combines the IKEA effect, loss aversion, and a live adversary that reproduces faster than you can respond. The violence tracks.

It is 100% true that great men and women of the past were not sitting around moaning about their feelings. I regret nothing.

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

Ugh just read a Substack article by a lit mag editor that I'm almost certain was edited with AI. The style is so common: * short, punchy sentences * "This, not that" construction. ("It's not a rejection; it's a sign the process is working...") * Things in threes. ("Not a no, not a rejection, not a closed door. A window to something better...") I cannot say it enough: writers & editors, please stop relying on AI to help you edit your stuff. AI strips you of your own voice & makes you sound like a machine. It's utterly depressing to read such pieces from writers and lit mag editors.

Books should cost about $5

NFL officially appointed influential storyteller Dhar Mann as its first-ever Chief Kindness Officer and Creator of the Week for Super Bowl LX.

First look at ‘SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN’, a new show exec produced by The Duffer Brothers The series follows a woman who travels to her fiancé’s parents home where a number of strange occurrences begin to make her paranoid. Releasing in March on Netflix.

Net-Justified: "Was the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis justified or not justified?" All: -28% DEM: -79% IND: -37% GOP: 31% YouGov / Jan 25, 2026

the solution to this does not come from a ballot box.

We're gonna find out if libertarians are real

Democrats who are all upset about the United States capturing Maduro were completely silent when Joe Biden forgave student loans.