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Getting Started With 16:8 Intermittent Fasting on The Leangains Method Diet
When you start a new diet you've got a lot
Understanding Bodyweight and Glycogen Depletion
If you are dieting or are planning to start a diet, you
How Mobile Hijacked Human Nature
We live in abundance, so why does our attention feel so scarce?
The axis of content is attention
In a virtual world that grows by the second, attention is all that matters.
The democratization of content
Prerequisite.
Benedict Evans has two thoughtful articles out about content creation versus
Dunbar's Number, Broken Social Networks, and Back Scratches
My brother passed on an article in The New Yorker from a
Meatza! Meatza!
How to make the best meatza (a pizza with a beef crust) using my late Italian grandfather's meatball recipe. Very tasty!
Shoot first and ask questions later (And have kids even if you don't want to) (Updated, sorta)
In short, I liken parenthood to doing first and understanding later. This is a good rule of thumb to apply across almost all facets of life -- lots of iterations make for lots of experiments through which we can learn about and enjoy life. Not having kids is a choice to have a drastically less-inter
Cross-Pollinating Ideas via the Internet
I call these occurrences examples of the "cross-pollination" of ideas. It's a collaborative, unpredictable, uncoordinated, complex effort whereby ideas and information gleaned from disparate sources are examined in relation to one another. It is knowing the trees and seeing the forest. The goal is t
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Giving up the Mouse: Use Hot Keys [Grind Skills]
In our computer-driven age, quite possibly the greatest "Grind Skill&
The Importance of Brain Tech and the Limits to Acquiring It
"There’s an idea articulated in Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon that goes something like this: imagine there is a project that will take five years to complete. Imagine further that a technology that could be developed in a year would, once acquired, enable the project to be completed in only two ye