The Long Game 153: Health Isn't Just Biomarkers, Lean Startups, Trying to Organize Everything
The Long Game 153: Health Isn't Just Biomarkers, Lean Startups, Trying to Organize Everything🥊 Silicon Valley’s Civil War, El Salvador, Rucking, Gym Mistakes, Teachers, Duolingo, 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: TLG is back after a few weeks. I’m currently exploring other ways of creating content, especially in the video format. More on that soon! In this episode, we explore:
Let’s dive in! 🥑 Health🧬 Health Isn’t Just BiomarkersNoah Ryan managed to put into words perfectly a topic we touched on quite a bit over the last few weeks on here.
As the trend of over-optimization is growing in the health space, this paragraph is useful and blends well the ideas of improving your health, learning things and not becoming neurotic about it.
The reason extreme routines are so popular is because they seemingly remove the need to think for yourself and understand what “optimal” truly means in your individual context. 🌱 Wellness🤡 You Can Be Successful Without Being InsufferableYou might feel this whole edition of TLG follows a similar theme, and after editing it, I would agree. This piece is a good reminder, especially these days. Is it really an all-or-nothing pursuit?
🧠 Better Thinking🤯 Getting Overwhelmed and Trying to Organize EverythingIt’s very tempting to feel you want to do more, achieve more get more stuff done. That usually leads to an effort to over-engineer things, create complex systems, and use many tools in the process. All that ironically leads mostly to more stress, and more time thinking about the meta-system than the actual tasks at hand. It’s possible that the only way to find a simplicity that works is to go through the over-engineered phase, though. But I am not sure! What do you think? Bottom line: Do the thing. ⚡️ Startup Stuff🏗 Quick MVP or Not?Flo Crivello tweeted this great meme: If you’ve been a long-time reader of TLG, you know I touched on this topic a lot. This piece is a good summary:
Pair with: First 1,000 users of Notion 📚 What I Read🥊 Silicon Valley’s Civil WarTech’s leadership is splitting into two elites—and the battle between them will shape America’s future.
📚 The Case Against (Most) BooksTaking opportunity costs seriously in the quest for knowledge.
🚔 I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a copThe conundrum in every classroom.
🦉 How Much Can Duolingo Teach Us?The company’s founder, Luis von Ahn, believes that artificial intelligence is going to make computers better teachers than humans.
Pair with: How Duolingo reignited user growth 🍭 Brain Food❓ Ne quid nimis“Call it sex negativity or common sense, there's backlash around the corner.” Some food for thought on an important topic.
Pair with: Let's Have An Honest Conversation About Only Fans & This is what hook up culture is doing to you.. the truth. 🎥 What I’m Watching🇸🇻 How the World’s Most Dangerous Country Solved Murder⚠️ 5 Worst Novice Training MistakesSome important lessons for my lifting friends. 🔧 The Tool of the Week🎒 RuckingAs we got a daughter 4 months ago, time management took a whole different meaning. I managed to stick to the gym and even progress quite a bit, but I completely stopped most of the cardio I was doing except for the walks. And walking is great, I love it, but I was looking for something a bit more intense, and most importantly without adding time on top of the gym nor the walks (why not less gym, you might ask: because I love it and I have specific goals I want to reach on that front.) So I think the best option is to add a heavy bag to some of the walks to get the heart rate up! 🪐 Quote I’m Pondering
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