Webb Barber @WebbBarbe

reality investigator Los Angeles Joined November 2011

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Webb Barber @WebbBarbe

3 weeks ago

High level sports communication.

Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings

3 weeks ago

Everyone remembers MJ’s shot... But the timeout before it - that's when Dean Smith won the game. Roy Williams called it the "greatest timeout in the history of sports." Here’s exactly what Dean Smith told his team. It's the 1982 national title game and UNC trailed Georgetown

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Webb Barber @WebbBarbe

a month ago

Level up learning.

Bryce Butler @bball_brainiac1

a month ago

A lesson every recruit needs to hear, from Shane Battier on his podcast Glue Guys with Duke's Jon Scheyer: When you decide against a school that recruited you, don't just send a text and go silent. Pick up the phone to call & thank the coach. Tell them what their interest meant

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Josh Chambers @JoshChambers

a month ago

Jalen Brunson says his parents made him choose between basketball and a social life “My parents told me when I was in high school that I have three things to choose from. I have school, I have basketball, I have my social life to choose from. And I can only pick two of the three. And school was clearly not an option to say no to. So it was really between basketball and my social life. And I chose basketball.” “Every day came down to getting my schoolwork done, making sure I got my work done with basketball, and then after that I could be a kid. As long as you did the work first, I could do what I want.” “But that also came, it wasn’t just my decision, also finding the right friends to be around. I had a great group of friends who knew my goals, who knew what I had to do before I could do anything.” “They never pressured me into skipping a day to go hang out. They made sure I did what I had to do. Those people are still with me today. It was really important for me to understand that my surroundings were just as important as my decisions.”

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Webb Barber @WebbBarbe

3 months ago

Making sense about risk adjustment.

Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia

3 months ago

Scott Galloway: 3% of Americans say they have a gambling problem. It's 10% of men under the age of 30. Gamble with your person. Show up for jobs you're not qualified for. Less risk online, more risk offline.

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Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia

3 months ago

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Webb Barber @WebbBarbe

4 months ago

Good clarification that sheds light on something we may have thought we understood but didn't actually.

Josh Chambers @JoshChambers

4 months ago

I think Allen Iverson’s (@alleniverson) “practice” rant has been misunderstood for years... And it is actually a great leadership lesson. Most people hear arrogance. What he was really expressing was grief, exhaustion, and the tension leaders face between performance and

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Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali

5 months ago

For 60 years every computer ever built did the same thing. Stored information and retrieved it on demand. Jensen Huang just explained why that era is over and what replaces it. His framing was the clearest I have ever heard. Think about everything a computer has ever done for you. You wrote a document, you saved it to a file. You took a photo, it saved to a file. You recorded music, it saved to a file. When you wanted it back, you retrieved it from a disc. That is it. That is 60 years of computing. Store and retrieve. He pointed out something hiding in plain sight. We call them data centers. Not computer centers. Because we were not really computing anything meaningful. We were storing data that you retrieved based on what you tapped on your phone. Then he explained what changed. Every time you give AI a prompt today, the response is produced originally in real time. It is not retrieved from storage. It is generated fresh based on your specific context, your specific question, your specific moment. What you see is completely different from what anyone else sees because it was made for you. Jensen said every pixel you see, every word you read, every video you watch in the future will be originally generated. Not retrieved. 60 years of computing was about building better storage and faster retrieval. The entire paradigm flipped overnight. He said this simply: we went from a retrieval industry to a generation industry. And the machines that generate intelligence are what Nvidia builds. The buildings used to be called data centers because they stored data. Nobody has renamed them yet. But the job description changed completely.

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Camus @newstart_2024

5 months ago

Do you put your hands on the wheel… or just wait for life to happen? Matthew McConaughey tackled that exact tension in his chat with Rick Rubin. He’s been heavily agnostic at times, but believes if there’s a God, the message is clear: show up, take responsibility, and drive. At the same time, many of his biggest “green light” moments weren’t engineered, they arrived when he did his part and let things unfold. He walks that fine line between hustle and surrender really well. No passive vibes, but no toxic control either. In a world pushing either endless grinding or pure manifestation, this balance feels grounded and practical. Where do you draw the line between taking charge and trusting things to unfold in your own life?

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Webb Barber @WebbBarbe

6 months ago

Sting talking about what he feels he's learned.

Camus @newstart_2024

6 months ago

Sting dropped some real wisdom in his CBS Sunday Morning interview: He’s got the houses, the money, the rockstar life — but he’s telling his kids straight: none of it’s coming to you. “I think the worst thing you can do to a kid is say you don’t have to work,” he said. He sees

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Webb Barber @WebbBarbe

8 months ago

Admittedly, President D. J. Trump tends to win a lot of his arguments...but Economic Reality seems to have caught him with a couple of nasty upper cuts. It's unfortunate that we have to absorb those blows as well.

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Webb Barber @WebbBarbe

10 months ago

Life tips.

Seek Wiser @SeekWiser_

10 months ago

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Webb Barber @WebbBarbe

10 months ago

@SeekWiser_ Life tips.

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Webb Barber @WebbBarbe

a year ago

A salute to experience.

Classic Rock In Pics @crockpics

a year ago

Jimi Hendrix playing guitar in US Army uniform, 1961.

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Arthur Schopenhauer @SchopenhauerNow

a year ago

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Webb Barber @WebbBarbe

a year ago

Headed "Down South" in just a minute.

Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper

a year ago

Remembering the legendary Tom Petty, who passed away 8 years ago today. His songs still travel highways and heartstrings, reminding us why he’ll always be one of rock’s most enduring voices.