It’s amazing how many side conversations held during meeting breaks become part of the core “canon“ of the meeting following the break. It’s easy to consider these brakes a waste of time, rather than a time to process what has been said.
Finished reading: We Are What We Eat by Alice Waters 📚(3/5)
A manifesto about how we eat affects who we are. A bit preachy, but isn’t that what a manifesto is? Chapters tell you a ton about the focus of the book.
Part 1 : Fast Food Culture
Convenience, Uniformity, Availability, Trust in Adverising, Cheapness, More is Better Speed
Part 2 : Slow Food Culture
Beauty, Biodiversity, Seasonality, Stewardship, Pleasure in Work, Simplicity, Interconnectedness.
I have noticed that my breathing stops or slows while I work. I will stop breathing while scanning for “threats” during calls, checking my inbox, reviewing my task list, or in meetings. Mindfulness and awareness help me identify these times and just breathe.
Right now. Breathe
f(health,wealth,time) = maximum fulfillment
Dr. Peter Attia, a doctor focused on longevity and maximizing our lives, recently interviewed Bill Perkins about his book Die with Zero (Affiliate). In his book, Bill focuses on the ways to maximize your personal life fulfillment by focusing on three key inputs:
- Health
- Wealth
- Time
Too often we focus on wealth as a key value driver in our lives, but Bills points out that there is a maximum utility to the wealth we have and that peaks sometime in the middle of our lives like a bell curve.
For example what is the value of $1 million on your deathbed to you? Probably not much. What’s the value of that same $1 million to you when you are 1 year old. Not much, you have very little needs at that age. $1 million in the middle of your life, now that can make some real impact. So the value of money/wealth changes as you age, but we must also consider our health. What if we had $1 million so that we could take a month long hike along the rim of Grand Canyon, but we were too old to make the journey.
Perkins point is that we need to focus on fulfillment which is a function of age, wealth, and health and that finding the proper order and balance in our lives is the key to fulfillment.
Key Lessons
- There are certain activies that you can only with others at a certain time in their lives. You can’t have story time with your kids when they are thirty. You can’t go on a father son trip when your father has passed away.
- There are seasons of your life that you cannot recapture. Bill discusses his friend taking a summer backpacking in Europe just out of college. Bill took a similar trip many years later when he was older but just wasn’t the same.
- Find the time for maximum utility for your resourcess throughout your life. Why would you wait to give your children money in your will at the cost of a trip together earlier in life.
Of course, everything has it’s limits or extremes, but are you deferring fulfillment for a future that never may come to pass?
Pediatricians now recommend drugs and surgery for kids with obesity - Ars Technica
This article makes me sad. Feels like we are addressing symptoms / outputs of a system and not the upstream problems. It must be insanely hard to be a teenager and need a surgical solution. ❤️
Bingo! 📷
Late meals can have an impact on the quality of your sleep. Not only how late you eat, but what you eat makes an impact.
Last night our family had Crumbl cookies. The hit of sugar before spiked my heart rate and didn’t give me the recovery I was hoping for. Instead of my heart rate lowering as I began to sleep it increased as my body digested the sugary meal.
Enjoy cookies but understand their impact. It gives a new meaning to sweat dreams.
Do spiders dream?
She soon found they experience periods of rapid retinal movement, which increased in duration and frequency throughout the night, lasting about 77 seconds and happening approximately every 20 minutes. It was during these REM-like periods that Rößler observed uncoordinated body movements—their abdomens wiggled, their legs curled or uncurled.
… and
“Occasionally, there are things happening that I can only explain with the theory of them having a nightmare,” Rößler says. They’ll be peacefully dangling, legs curled by in neatly, when suddenly “all the legs get extended at the same time, like aah!”
National Geographic : Do spiders dream? A new study suggest they do.
This weekend I finished the 10th season of The Great British Baking Show on Netflix. What makes this show great is they do not architect the contestants for conflict. There are no overt egos or challenges that explicitly take down other contestants. Everyone has a joy for baking and puts their best foot forward. Refreshing.
Two Easily Remembered Questions That Silence Negative Thoughts | Anthony Metivier | TEDxDocklands
- Are my thoughts useful?
- How do they behave?
From Gary Weber’s books “Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening” and “Evolving Beyond Thought: Updating Your Brain’s Software”
