The Long Game 145: A Cholesterol Self-Experimentation, Material Things, Luck, Duolingo
The Long Game 145: A Cholesterol Self-Experimentation, Material Things, Luck, Duolingo🤖 Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment, Religion, Community, & Meaning, Jailhouse Strong, Leanness, BRICS, 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📊 A Cholesterol Self-ExperimentationI found this self-experimentation by Paul Murphy very interesting and worth sharing. I see a future where those self-experimentations are easily shareable on Vital and where people can easily enroll themselves in a similar experiment and find what works for them. A year ago my cholesterol reached new levels & my GP insisted I start taking Statins
Very healthy but bad cholesterol genes. Not against meds but felt like jumping to conclusion w/o any attempt to improve underlying issues
Here’s what I did in case it helps others... 🌱 Wellness🛍 Material ThingsOver the last ten years, minimalism became very popular, both the philosophy of life and its aesthetics. I think we’re slowly getting out of this trend—for the better. This tweet perfectly encapsulates something I’ve been feeling: there’s a lot of happiness to be found in material things. These things will be deeply personal, but here’s an example of what I can think of:
my unpopular opinion is that people underestimate the impact of material things on happiness because people use their money wrong 🧠 Better Thinking🎰 The Luckier You Are, The Nicer You Should BeThis piece powerfully resonated with me as I’ve thought a lot about luck in the last two months and the beginning of fatherhood. The importance of luck became more apparent to me lately—not at the expense of discarding hard work, though—but just realizing no matter what you do, things don’t always play out in a great way.
⚡️ Startup Stuff🦉 How Duolingo reignited user growthI’m a big fan of Duolingo as a product, not so much as a user; I don’t use it, but as a big inspiration for what we’re building at Vital. I enjoyed this piece about how they reignited their user growth.
Want to build up your Proof-of-Health Streak on top of your language streak? Join us on Vital! 📚 What I Read🦾 Jailhouse StrongAn excellent book for everything related to at-home/no-equipment training methods. I still prefer to go to the gym, to be honest, but with a kid, it’s sometimes harder to manage time. So I like to sprinkle in some home workouts when I can’t leave home—pretty intense stuff in the book.
Something that helped me stick with my exercising routine with a kid is the "no matter what, I'll train" mindset. Time management with a kid is way harder but having this non-negotiable rule helps a lot
If enough time for the gym, great, otherwise 15-30min of push-ups will do it 🔮 Reflections on Religion, Community, & MeaningReflections on the state of religion, community, and meaning in modern America.
🤖 Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment"In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of [running] a business." -- George McGovern
👛 Dropping the SAT Requirement Is a Luxury BeliefDisguising self-interest as virtue.
🍭 Brain Food🤯 High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activityThis paper is wild. It seems that AI can now reconstruct visual images from MRI scan data using Stable Diffusion. The first row is the image presented to the test subject, and the second row is the reconstructed image from MRI data. This is getting very close to reading our minds.
🎥 What I’m Watching📉 ATHLEAN-X: "6% Body Fat is Ideal For Men" ...um...WHAT?Athlean-X is one of the worst fitness YouTubers out there, in my opinion. He led countless natural lifters in the direction of trying to remain too lean all the time, thus staying small and with minimal progress. This video explains the issue with this. 🏳 Why the BRICS Failed?🔧 The Tool of the Week✨ A Pull-Up Bar at HomeIn the last few days, I was reminded of how good it is to have a pull-up bar at home. Add some push-ups, and you get an elite upper-body workout without leaving home and in minimal time. 🪐 Quote I’m Pondering
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