The "tough/hardass" coaching model occasionally works on the HS/college level because athletes have no control.

It largely fails on the pro level because athletes have more autonomy & understand their value

Pro's want to be treated as people, not subordinates.

Why? A thread:

It's not that young athletes don't want the same things (autonomy) as older. It's that there's an inherent power differential and they are nearly powerless to escape it.

They "survive" the 'tough' training, they don't thrive under it.

Human motivation is very simple. Self Determination Theory boils it down to 3 basic needs:
1. Feel like you belong
2. Feel like you can make progress
3. Feel like you have some control over your life (autonomy)

Intrinsic motivation largely fuels the "obsession" you see from top performers to practice their craft over and over.

That doesn't come from a coach or someone dictating and directing. Over the long haul, it has to come from within.

As you can see, the "hardass" all the time approach runs counter to at least one of our basic motivational needs.

Over time, you erode self-motivation and have to replace it with something else, or else you lose people.

That something else if often more extrinsic motivation.

Ola Hovde, the number 1️⃣ in the world (Thread)

With half the season completed, I started to look at the number 1 in the world and how he has played

Ola Hovde has been number 1 ever since GW10 this season but what has he done to get there? What can we learn from it?

Some things I noticed while looking at his gameweek history: 👀

🔘 Was 88th in the world after 126 points in GW2 after heroics from Kane ©️, Son, DCL and Rodriguez

🔘 Played his wildcard in GW10 and has been number 1 ever since

🔘 Taken 2 hits all season (GW9 + GW19)

📅 Previous ranks:

2013/14: 2 582 055
2016/17: 2 609 556
2017/18: 3 912 938
2018/19: 2 726 178
2019/20: 1 635 618

⭐️ Favourite players throughout the season:

Justin GW1-
DCL GW1-11
Kane GW1-9
Son GW1-9
KDB GW10-
Bruno GW9-
McCarthy GW1-
Grealish GW5-
Dias + Cancelo GW10-

©️ Captaincy:

Salah 7x
KDB 5x
Kane 3x
Son 2x
Bruno 2x

Total points: 342

Total points for myself (rank 478k): 266

❌Popular players he has never owned this season:

Pope
Martinez/Villa defender
Stones
Zouma
Chilwell
James
Rashford
Sterling
Aubameyang
Werner
Vardy
Ings/Adams

The beauty of the broadening of sense perception during the process of awakening is unique.

I still remember my ceremonies every galactic marker, every solstice and every equinox, I was delighted when beloved elementals entered my body and activated my sensations on crazy,absurd

and magical levels!

Taste makes me delight in every flavor that exploded in me with thousands of new sensations, so I enjoy enormously every bite, every inhalation, every kiss seems to be the last one always! lol

My sense of smell ... I could and I can see the colors associated with each smell, feeling its origin and the mixture of smells is confused as an infinite, powerful and unique amalgam that generates a deep pleasure and enervate my senses.

The sounds. Wow. I could hear miles away, and every step of the insects, the whispers of plants and elementals mocking my perceptions so limited that they were offered unique and isolated in which each sense was only a piece apart. not way... sound are magical an powerful

The amplified view is a monumental and unique phenomenon...not only being able to see at great distances, but seeing every detail until I enter the microscopic niel and see the heartbeat of every cell, the piezoelectric sensation of every movement, and when I close them and

@OliviaMesser It will be a raging pandemic for at least six more months. I would explain why, but I’m not giving away free info any more. National politicians know who I am & continue to steal my arguments. Moreover, Twitter censors me bc I want expose corrupt Republicans. Til I have a (1)

sufficient follower base & can get the exposure & recognition I deserve I’m dumbing down my arguments. Difference with me is I don’t use the same recycled, bland arguments as is often the case with many people who don’t deserve the media attention they get. My arguments are (2)

Powerful, hard-hitting & on-point. Go back & read my Tweets over the last 3-4 mos. & you will see. Tho, I have much more proof of this than my tweets & will release this at the appropriate moment in time. With me pulling back. You will Democrats are going to get shredded by (3)

the Republicans in the next few weeks w/o me to prop them up. You steal & don’t give back. Then, that’s what will happen. Nothing is free in this world. The Democrats have things they need to learn about how to deal w/ the Republicans. Moreover, Twitter let Trump & Co. spread (4)

false, dangerous, blatantly-evil lies that divided the country the last 4 years. Now, I want to hit these Republicans back after 4 years & all of the sudden Twitter is worried about furthering to divide the country. Well, you should of thought about that 4 years ago. Now it’s (5)

@vbspurs This will be my writing project for the day - hold on...

Fair warning: the Krittr family saga is not The Crown. Not even close. OTOH, it's not the Kartrashians either.

Ready?

It wasn’t as much that Grandpa Krittr (GK) didn’t understand her as he didn’t understand women in general. GK was the youngest of 8 kids born to a Volga German wheat farming family in Eastern Washington. He was the only one born in the US after 1/

2/ the family emigrated to the US. His only sister was almost 20 years older & had already moved away by the time he was born. [Yeah, he was a 7th son.]

[Side note: how the Volga Germans got to the US is an interesting story by itself. Short version is that they were all

3/ basically farmers who knew how to do one thing: grow wheat on unirrigated land, so they largely moved an entire village at a time from the Volga river valley to homestead in the areas where you can grow wheat without irrigation, namely E WA, parts of

4/ Montana & the Dakotas, and central Kansas. Often the villages spoke German except to outsiders, GK spoke German at home and English at school.]

Great grandpa Krittr (GGK) died long before I was born, but supposedly he was a good farmer, terrible to his wife and children,

@freedom9230 By flushing out the same inflammation that leads to depletion of the tryptophan pathway (which adjacently leads to depletion of serotonin) by all tryptophan depleting down to NAD+ in response to inflammation, niacin will quickly restore serotonin by restoring tryptophan.

It’s not really “excess” serotonin produced but rather, previously depleting/deficient serotonin becoming rapidly restored once the inflammation that was depleting it is flushed out by niacin.

Once inflammation is for the most part flushed out and thermodynamic energy transfer / metabolism / all auxiliary biochemistry are restored to more homeostatic states, supplemented niacin won’t affect tryptophan down to NAD+ or tryptophan to serotonin pathways.

Instead, with continued dosing, sufficiently supplied niacin will then work as continued pump-action against any downstream inflammation / free radical electrons that manifest thereafter by turning into NAADP if needed... and any free intracellular niacin will be urinated out

Does that make sense? Lol

@johnkoetsier @LarryRosenthal @John_Westra True, but I only get 140 characters at a time and I’m trying to cover a lot.

“The media” meaning the primary outlets of information and opinion in America: news, TV shows, movies, magazines. Nearly all follow and promote whatever the dominant cultural values are at the moment.

@LarryRosenthal @John_Westra It used to be that there was civility in the media. But that came from a more civil society, where traditionally correct behavior was deemed important. That’s been erased by modernism. Today political correctness has replaced civility, and the media parrots that instead.

@LarryRosenthal @John_Westra The moral distortion becomes evident when you read the words Trump speaks. Consider what he might be referring to without PC bias, and then watch how those media outlets speak about those same words. The presumption of guilt starts, fills and ends nearly every message.

@LarryRosenthal @John_Westra Charlottesville is a perfect example. “There were good people on both sides” was entirely referring to those for and against removal of statues - NOT about “good white supremacy”
or “good Antifa counter-protesters”. He clarified this exact point at the time. That’s the “truth”.

@LarryRosenthal @John_Westra But to this day that’s not what the “media” gave to the world to chew on, now is it? Instead there is the deliberate and persistent lie that he meant to defend white supremacy because that narrative sells better to a PC public: half of America now thinks he’s a racist for sure.

Staying well out of this beef, but I've spent the last 48 hours in hysterics since I learned that an influencer has been getting fans to give her money by calling it "individual reparations."

That's the joke line I use when I want one of my white mates to get a round in!

I get how this dynamic emerges. Social media blurs the distinction between influencer and activist. Individuals are seen as totemic of a wider political struggle, so you want to see them succeed. And of course, supporting people's work is meaningful.

But it's not reparations.

Reparations isn't an individual white person giving money to an individual black or brown person (apart from when I'm broke and want a cocktail, in which case it's very much that).

It's about recognising that

a) colonialism and slavery have had a lasting economic impact

b) this impact is not just a legacy, or a long tail.

It has been reinforced by the underdevelopment and debt servitude of the Global South, and the exploitation of labour and resources from the Global South.

And unless you're a billionaire or a central bank, it's unlikely that your PayPal activity is going to make much of an impact on the root causes behind the Global Movement for Reparations..

https://t.co/60epkGZrQl

So, I am late but I need to say two or three things.
Ppl who follow me know I was against D’s resurrection plot because like this S1 and S2 were written for nothing. But Dilsha is here and I read comments about Miran being a crying baby +
#Hercai

+which is true but the problem here is that he cried too much for her loss in S1&S2, thus we are kind of fed up. But now comes my famous BUT:
This man just discovered that his dead thought mother is alive. The woman he in first place took revenge for bc she was+
#Hercai #ReyMir

+ apparently raped (lie) and killed (lie). The man who was mentally abused for 27y by his grandmother and who nearly drove him crazy. Miran lived so many moments of abandonment and loss and for what: for a big, fat overall LIE. +
#Hercai #ReyMir

+ He was never allowed to sit on his grandmothers lap, he never received a warm caress or embrace. He was emotionally and empathetically drained. So, his heart continued beating because there was the last bit of motherly love in it that survived+
#Hercai #ReyMir

+ and kept him alive although exposed to harshness, coldness and hate of Azize. It was that last bit of mother love, which later with Reyyan’s love, made him not loose his mind.
#Hercai #ReyMir

Having read @Nidhi's account about the scam, here are a few details about how US academia hiring works, as are relevant to her case. And the perpetrator of the scam is most likely an academic or at least a former academic with connections.

US unis generally follow similar processes when it comes to hiring professors. But the processes depend on your "track". As do the norms, eligibility, timeline, etc. I for example am on a research tenure track. I was Assistant Professor for 7 years before tenure made me Associate

On that track, you need a proper PhD from an accredited university. Then a long process to get hired as an Assistant Prof. Then 6-7 years to prove your credentials, primarily in terms of research. Then less than 10% get tenure and earn the right to be Associate Profs.

But education is more about just research. So unis also have other tracks like Teaching, Industry, Practice. Here, expectations of academic research are minimal to non-existent. If you just wanna teach 95% of the time and you're good at it, you can still get a job!

They have their own identical ranks - Assistant, Associate, (Full) Professor. That they advance through as their careers progress. Based almost entirely on their teaching performance. Not research.
These folks also must have a PhD or at least be working towards a PhD. Typically.

@lexfridman 12:37 This guy has too many brains for a place like Harvard, mentioning God right outta the box.

15:10 This guy gets it with the scales of ants, grains, lifespans and gratitude.

18:34 What it is, is here. #OumuamuaPropulsion

22:00 It's a light-pumper. They tend to **reflect** because it's how they move.

24:40 Yeah, "ice". Baby to go. Turn off the lights and I'll glow.

Wangxian post canon where one night, Lwj is late home. Wwx knows Lwj has been teaching today, so he goes to find his husband instead. When he reaches lwj’s classroom and slides open the door he sees Lwj, and in his arms is a gently snoozing baby disciple

Lwj blinks slowly in a gesture to tell Wwx to move quietly, but Wwx is already barely breathing in fear of waking the sleeping little one.

The little body rises and falls with each slow breath, and lwjs hand is a cradle on the back of the child’s head

‘How long have they been sleeping?’ Wwx mouths at lwj, who replies ‘since the end of class’

The child’s breath catches and they both freeze, then let out a silent sigh when no further reaction happens.

Wwx treads carefully over to the pair

As he kneels, he catches sight of a chubby cheek, smushed against the shoulder of his husbands white robes. His heart clenches. “Hello little one,” he reaches forwards and with one finger gently strokes back the hair from the child’s face. Big eyes blink open sleepily

“Morning,” Wwx smiles, and the child stretches out two chubby arms towards him, a silent demand to be carried. Wwx accepts, of course he does. He lifts the Lan disciple into his arms, shifting to lean against lwjs side

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I wanted to share why we had to make this change. (1 of 22)

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And to be clear, this change most likely has zero effect on you, our users. It has no effect on our customers that engage with us either in cloud or on premises. Its goal, hopefully, is pretty clear. (3 of 22)

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Bede's Sources: A Thread 📚

Bede gives James the Deacon, a companion of Paulinus (first Northumbrian missionary) surprisingly short shrift. Esp as Paulinus was resolute enough to remain in the North when Paulinus’ mission broke down (& he lived to play a part in the Synod of Whitby).

It’s difficult to see why James (who lived mostly nr Catterick) didn’t become one of the great legendary figures of the Northumbrian Church, unless he was either really dull or his oral record didn’t survive until the point a monastery could jot it down.

Earliest extant life of an English saint is the anon. Lindisfarne Life of Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne and hermit of Farne, written c.699.

Whitby is rly the star of Bede’s work. It was to Whitby that the relics of Edwin were translated and traditions about Edwin were included in the Whitby “Life of Gregory [the Great]” written c.704. It was at Whitby that Oswiu was buried etc.

This might be called: The Little Elegy-Manifesto for the Last Friday of Everything (which we thought was only one more calendar Friday but turned out to be the last of something)

Had we known what was coming, on that last crowded subway ride on a certain Friday, we’d have saluted every passenger with an anthem or signal, right as they stepped off the train car at their final stop.

We’d have devoted a slightly longer gaze to the stranger sitting across from us during that last, boisterous dinner table we were not even sure we wanted to attend, but did.

We’d have read a poem by Góngora, HD or Dickinson, out loud, in that real classroom full of present students. (And the room would have smelled of pencil, sweat, mochila, and weak coffee.)

We'd have clapped our hearts out and our palms got all red when that airplane we flew on finally fucking landed, not quite on time but smoothly-enough.