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Image 1 — Forget DEF and sensors for a minute, look at this Massey-Harris No. 1 crossing the block.
Image 2 — Forget DEF and sensors for a minute, look at this Massey-Harris No. 1 crossing the block.
Image 3 — Forget DEF and sensors for a minute, look at this Massey-Harris No. 1 crossing the block.
Image 4 — Forget DEF and sensors for a minute, look at this Massey-Harris No. 1 crossing the block.
Image 5 — Forget DEF and sensors for a minute, look at this Massey-Harris No. 1 crossing the block.
Image 6 — Forget DEF and sensors for a minute, look at this Massey-Harris No. 1 crossing the block.
▲ 49 r/RitchieBros+1 crossposts

Forget DEF and sensors for a minute, look at this Massey-Harris No. 1 crossing the block.

After wrenching on complex modern machinery all week, seeing something like this pop up in the Wembley auction lineup is incredibly refreshing. Gas engine, steel wheels and absolutely zero computers to troubleshoot. Just raw, unbreakable mechanical engineering from the ground up. It is wild to think about how much the industry has evolved since this was the standard. Who else loves seeing these running pieces of history mixed in with all the late model yellow iron?

u/Echoing_voice — 3 days ago
▲ 0 r/GetMotivated

[Story] I'm starting to think most self help books are selling the feeling of change, not change itself.

A few months ago I noticed something strange about my bookshelf.

Almost every book on it promised some version of clarity. Better habits, better focus, a calmer mind, a more meaningful life. And yet my actual life still mostly looked like me opening Reddit while waiting for my coffee to brew.

The weird thing is I don't even think the books are bad. I genuinely liked a lot of them. Atomic Habits made sense to me. Deep Work made sense to me. Most popular self help books are usually pretty well written and full of ideas that sound reasonable.

But I'm starting to think reading them was the entire transaction. You read the book, feel briefly reorganized as a person, underline a few lines, maybe even buy a new notebook, then slowly drift back into your normal life while the book joins the others on your nightstand.

The encounter was reading it. That was the outcome. And I think part of the problem is that information itself has become weirdly commercialized.

The books that dominate recommendations are usually the books easiest to market to millions of people. Same with podcasts, YouTube self improvement, and Google results.

You don't necessarily end up finding the most useful knowledge for your life. You mostly find the information with the strongest distribution behind it.

That's why every influencer somehow ends up recommending the same handful of books over and over. And even when the information is genuinely useful, it all feels scattered.

You'll hear one smart insight on a podcast, save a random Reddit comment, watch a YouTube video that changes your perspective for ten minutes, then forget about it a week later because nothing connects together into an actual system for your own goals.

That's the part that started bothering me.

Most self-help advice has to be broad enough to apply to millions of strangers, which means eventually it starts collapsing into the same general themes. Sleep better. Focus more. Reduce distractions. Be consistent.

None of that is wrong. It just feels detached from how messy and specific real people actually are.

A few weeks ago I genuinely started wondering if anyone had noticed this problem and tried building a better system around it. And if nobody had, I honestly considered building some small side project around it myself. I'm an SDE and the idea of "personalized knowledge systems" started feeling way more interesting to me than another generic productivity app. Then last week I saw someone randomly recommend befreed in a reddit thread and decided to try it.

Still very early obviously, but I weirdly like the direction so far. Instead of just feeding you isolated summaries or whatever book is trending on TikTok that month, it builds learning paths around your actual goals and combines ideas from books, research, podcasts, expert talks, etc. I've mostly been using it during walks for social skills and communication stuff and it feels much more structured than randomly consuming self improvement content all day.

Maybe I'll abandon it in 3 months like everything else. Who knows.

But I think the core idea makes more sense: information becomes way more useful once it's organized around an actual person instead of around what sells best online.

Curious if anyone else has hit this point where self-help content starts feeling repetitive and strangely optimized for marketing instead of actual change.

Would genuinely love recommendations for resources that felt personally useful to you instead of just universally popular.

Maybe we can keep this thread as a collection of stuff that actually helped real people instead of the usual airport bestseller rotation.

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u/nasir018 — 14 days ago
▲ 59 r/RitchieBros

28,553 hours. Every gauge dead. Oil leaking. Both axles dripping. Hydraulics leaking everywhere. Cracked bucket. Needed a jump start just to run during inspection. But it moves. It lifts. Brakes work. Drivetrain is solid. And $22,500 for a WA500 is honestly hard to ignore. Komatsu builds tough iron. But this one has clearly lived a hard life and somebody gave up on it. Question for the wrenchers in here is this a flip opportunity or just an expensive headache waiting to happen?

u/nasir018 — 20 days ago
▲ 30 r/RitchieBros+1 crossposts

They look small at first but then you realize they can fit into tight spots where bigger machines ca not even get close. Seems perfect for indoor jobs, tight sites or anything with limited access.

u/Echoing_voice — 24 days ago