Tim Wagner
@wagner_tim
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Give your friendships superpowers @sevennsocial Angel investor in reversing climate change #Vermonter with a Golden State of mind
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Joined May 2009
The biggest mistake I see people make about friendships is that they will just happen. That’s like saying health will just happen. The more you dial up your intentionality as a friend, the more you will dial up the quality of every other part of your life.
"By far the biggest medical surprise of the past decade has been the extraordinary number of studies showing that the single best predictor of health and wellbeing is simply the number and quality of close friendships you have."
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RT @michaelmiraflor: At breakfast club LA yesterday, a few of us elder millennials discussed the dire state of nightlife in the city. Bars….
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Reminder that Facebook hacked their own users phones to get data on competitors….
Facebook once bought a VPN app for $120M and turned it into a surveillance tool that spied on 33M+ users' entire phones for years. This app helped Zuck buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19B and break Snapchat's encryption. Thread.
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RT @TylerAlterman: I feel like 90% of dopamine-chasing behavior is motivated by avoiding one's own unpleasant thoughts and feelings.
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We can do better, this isn’t a sustainable graph….
Young adults in the English-speaking World are very unhappy. The young adult mental wellbeing crisis is much more pronounced in the English-speaking world than in Western Europe.
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RT @JonHaidt: An encouraging sign: I'm hearing more and more about Gen Z "rebels" who refuse to get sucked into the social media lifestyle.….
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One app to rule them all seems unlikely to happen as specific UI and private data context are more usable by humans. How many people have been terrible at using Google? A lot of people need prompt stacking behind the interface layer to access full model power.
There’s likely too much fear that AI models eat the app layer as they improve. For AI Agents to work, most enterprises will require a bridge between the AI and their specific workflows. It turns out the last mile of making AI Agents work in real, highly variable and hostile.
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RT @robkhenderson: The reason you struggle to fall asleep at night is because your brain won't shut off. In the past, during moments of bor….
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😳 this is curious… @robkhenderson how statistical significant / reproducible is this study? . Also what if you like both cats and dogs? 😂.
3. People who prefer dogs over cats reported higher levels of conscientiousness, agreeableness, and extraversion, while people who prefer cats showed higher openness to experience and neuroticism. This pattern was similar in both women and men.
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I love Nolan and La La land, now they’ve converged….
Christopher Nolan says he’s seen ‘La La Land’ three or four times. “La La Land, to me, is an extraordinary film. It’s amazing piece of directing, and I don’t usually like musicals.”
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2/ Living more atomized lives generates negative downstream social effects. Decline of civic engagement, depression, anxiety, political polarization all have roots in this. The good news? We can recreate this at a small scale by being intentional & curating for likeminded people.
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1/ This sentence explains alot about modern America. For most of history humans spent a lot of time with a wide range of people from babies to elders. They didn’t just see birth & death, they participated in it. This is the social environment our brains evolved to engage in.
More specifically, we are overwhelmingly told to see life as an exercise in risk mitigation. Maintain optionality, avoid pain, optimize happiness.
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RT @DavidSHolz: "perhaps we don't love unreasonably because we think we have time" "dear milena, i wish the world were ending tomorrow" htt….
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RT @Codie_Sanchez: One of the most underrated things you can do is buy unwanted land with your friends and build a compound. We bought thi….
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RT @jposhaughnessy: "Luck Razor - If given 2 options, pick the one that has the most luck potential. E.g. Cocktail party vs watching Netfli….
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99% of life is showing up - got work, health, friends, whatever that really matters….
The older I get, the more I realize that showing up is the key to life. Show up when it’s hard. Show up when no one’s watching. Show up when you don't feel like it. Show up when the rewards are uncertain. Show up. You can never bet against the person who just keeps showing up.
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Except people now are choosing group chats where they know everyone else is a bot….
The year is 2029. You’ve been in a group chat for a long time. It has history, lore. You’ve shared laughs and cried together. You care for the 38 other participants deeply… today, you wake up and find out they’re all bots. No one is “real” except you. Whole social graph, bots.
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