Thoughts as of November 2024 - subject to change as I learn more - feel free to poke holes, always happy to be corrected. Many people over the past few years have asked me for tips and tricks about diet and nutrition. I have gone into detail with people on an individual basis over text/dm, on phone calls, or in person, but I felt it would be helpful for me and others to spell out some of my thoughts in greater detail. This serves a dual benefit of forcing me to list out my thoughts and having something to point to for others to look into at their convenience. Also, over time it will be interesting with new studies and experiences to see how I revise my own beliefs My advice to you People often get annoyed with me when they ask a simple question about nutrition. “Is this good?” “Is this bad?” The answer is, it depends. Some will ask what brands of products that I use, and sure, I could tell someone to eat xyz food or use this supplement, but if you do not understand the reasoning behind...
“It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.” — Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way ^ AKA I continue to be lazy and not spend time on formatting, but just working on getting content out Shorter week this week since my PR travels extended last week’s post. Debated waiting until tomorrow to post this, but figured it would be better to get back on the Sunday cadence as a good forcing function. Relative structure for this week is: Some quick thoughts, then some things that caught my eye idea-wise (Ikigai, a quote, and Ferriss heuristic), then bullets and charts extracted from the Fidelity Lightning write-up, then Podcast takeaways from this week, and finally notes from the RFK book which was an absolute trip Some thoughts You know, part of the reason to make this so haphazard and borderline unreadable is that it genuinely is for me to be able to look back on, and if it is poor quality then others probably will not look at it ...