The Long Game 105: Training for Longevity, Patience & Impatience, Vanishing People, Social Graphs
The Long Game 105: Training for Longevity, Patience & Impatience, Vanishing People, Social Graphs🔂 Never Giving Up, The Decisions That Really Matter, Cancel Culture, Glass, Kuwait, China, and Much More!Hi there, it’s Mehdi Yacoubi, co-founder at Vital, and this is The Long Game Newsletter. To receive it in your inbox each week, subscribe here: In this episode, we explore:
Let’s dive in! 🥑 Health🧬♾ Training for LongevityIn a recent episode, Peter Attia outlined his thinking behind training for longevity. I thought it was great, so I took a few notes to save you some time: Important ideas:
Strength & Muscle Over Time
Importance Of Deadlifts As An Adult
Here are a few great Youtube channels I recommend:
Zone 2 Training
Zone 5 Training
VO2 Max
Peter’s Current Weekly Exercise Routine
That’s a lot of training! But it’s the price to pay to be kicking ass at 100 and more. Pair with: An epigenetic age reduction world record? 🌱 Wellness⚖️ The Few Decisions That Really MatterI liked how Gad Saad explained what the most important decisions in your life are:
These are the most important decisions because your spouse is the person you’ll spend the most time with, and your job is the activity that will take the most significant part of your life. Getting those right will arguably make your life great, and getting them wrong will complicate things. Of course, there isn’t an easy answer to these questions, but on the job side of things, I found this video of Jeff Bezos worth sharing. He tells the story of why he dropped fundamental physics in college. No matter how talented you are, your lack of genius in a particular area is often apparent. Jeff Bezos wanted to be a theoretical physicist. But one night, while studying quantum mechanics, he realized his brain wasn’t wired to process highly abstract concepts. Upon learning that he wasn’t smart enough to be a physicist, he switched to computer science. I’ll leave the spouse question for another time (although I like Joe’s answer to Gaad’s question about how to find the right spouse, linked above). For the job side of things, we should all aim at navigating in our zone of genius. 🧠 Better Thinking⏳ Patience & ImpatienceI was reminded of the idea of the patience vs. impatience question with this excellent piece:
A good way to think about patience & impatience is to be both patient and impatient. Patient because you play the long game and think long term. Impatient because you don't let a day pass without doing something that brings you closer to your long-term vision. Be both patient and impatient.
Patient because you play the long game and think long term.
Impatient because you don't let a day pass without doing something that brings you closer to your long-term vision. Pomp 🌪 @APompliano You need short term urgency and long term patience when building a business.⚡️ Startup Stuff🔂 Never Giving UpI’m currently re-reading Can’t Hurt Me, so it’s no wonder that this tweet resonated with me: My ideas on this aren’t fully formed yet, but right now, I strongly believe that thinking you will never give up is extremely powerful. I can already see the “survivorship bias” and “sometimes you need to know when to quit” in my replies, which are fair criticisms. Still, believing that you will never give up can make you overcome things you’d never had overcome if you kept that “giving up” door open, and that’s an idea that often gets forgotten. It also comes with its share of danger, as sometimes pursuing something at all costs can be very costly. Amjad puts it perfectly here: A way to reconcile those two ideas is to change the timescale or specific details of what you’re trying to achieve. For example, restarting from scratch a few years after a setback shouldn’t be seen as a “failure” or “giving up” and can help someone finally get to where they want to be. 📚 What I Read🧐 The Rich Are Not Who We Think They Are. And Happiness Is Not What We Think It Is, Either.The NYT is surprised that people can get rich by making useful products:
📉 Vanishing People: the Population CrisisI shared countless resources explaining how problematic a population collapse would be. Here’s another one; it’s a huge and an under-discussed topic. “This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.”
🚫 What Propels Cancel Culture?The excellent Rob Henderson on cancel culture:
🍭 Brain Food🕸 The Limits of Social GraphsI’m currently thinking and reading about social graphs and social apps all the time, so I’m sorry in advance if this topic comes back too frequently for your taste 😅 I came across this video with arguably the two best tech bloggers, Kevin Kwok & Eugene Wei. It’s a perfect summary and commentary of Eugene’s TikTok series (part I, II, III) and the discussion about social graphs & interest-based graphs that ensued: The TikTok series is very dense and long (it’s almost a book!), so that’s the perfect TL;DR, even better at 1.5x speed. A few things I picked up:
🎥 What I’m Watching🇨🇳 China Wants to Form Its Own Military AllianceThe likely members? Russia, Iran, Pakistan, and more… 🇰🇼 Why Kuwait Builds a City With a Massive Shoreline🔧 The Tool of the Week📸 Glass — Your Home for PhotographyI found Glass in response to this tweet: Instagram, as a home for beautiful still photography is truly dead.
Which platform are photographers moving to? It’s a well-done paid product that focuses on actual photography and not vanity. 🪐 Quote I’m Pondering
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