The Long Game 83: Wearable Data & Lifestyle Modifications, Emotional Intelligence, Optionality, Blood Testing
The Long Game 83: Wearable Data & Lifestyle Modifications, Emotional Intelligence, Optionality, Blood Testing🌇 The Long-Awaited Revolution in Architecture, Pareto Security, Life Beyond 3, Techno-Optimism, Genopets, 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: 📣 We are hiring at Vital, help us build the “Strava for Health.” We are now looking for:
We offer $1,000 in Bitcoin if you refer to us a candidate we hire. In this episode, we explore:
Let’s dive in! 🥑 Health💍 Lifestyle Modification Using a Wearable Biometric Ring and Guided Feedback Improve Sleep and Exercise BehaviorsI found this recent study very interesting. Here’s the abstract:
This is a very encouraging result showing the power wearable technology will have in the future. As you know, we are working on making this future a reality at Vital. 💌 Other news in Health:
🌱 Wellness📉 The Precipitous Decline of Emotional IntelligenceSome bad news! And maybe a reminder to drop the phone and use Opal.
🧠 Better Thinking🛣 You Don’t Need Optionality, Go All-InI’ve already written multiple times about optionality and how it has become modern life’s happiness killer. Still, I had an interesting conversation over the weekend that pushed me to revisit some articles about this. This piece explains perfectly the trouble with optionality:
Another of my favorites on the topic is this one:
I think a big reason people want to maintain optionality at all cost is related to not having a clear understanding of how the “dream life” looks and feel in real life. Once you understand that the life that’s being advertised doesn’t exist and that, no matter what you choose to do, it will be hard, you can leave this wrong idea of optionality and dedicate yourself to something meaningful for you. No one writes it better than Morgan Housel:
⚡️ Startup Stuff📚 Books of the MomentI have a startup-related book backlog at the moment! I’ve been paying more and more attention to the timing of the books I read. Right now, I try to focus 80% of my reading on the current work we’re doing at Vital. Whenever I feel a book isn’t right for our current challenges, I leave it for later. The books I’m focused on right now are about product and communities. I’m currently reading these three. I’ll share more about those next week: Let me know if you have book recommendations for this theme! Underrated: the timing of the books you read. A book can be great, but we rarely talk about its timing. The right book *at the right time* can be life-changing. 📚 What I Read🌐 Great Protocol PoliticsThe 21st century doesn’t belong to China, the United States, or Silicon Valley. It belongs to the internet.
🧬 Techno-Optimism for 2022What you should be excited about for 2022:
🐶 Genopets WhitepaperI’ve been very interested in the intersection of web 3 and health. Genopets is precisely at this intersection.
🎙 Podcast Episodes of the WeekThis week in podcasts:
🍭 Brain Food🌇 When is the Revolution in Architecture Coming?This is an excellent piece exploring why modern architecture is so boring compared to past architectures. Old: New (a recent winner of the Pritzker Prize): Why are the new celebrated monuments much less aesthetically pleasing than the old ones?
I’m lucky enough to be working two blocks away from Illa de la Discòrdia: 🎥 What I’m Watching👽 Life Beyond 3: In Search of GiantsFrom the creators of Journey to the End of Time (the most beautiful and powerful video on Youtube.) 💉 Blood Work for Athletic Performance: What to Order, Look For, & How to InterpretI’ve been going down the blood test analysis rabbit hole lately. It’s so hard to understand results, and the whole process is broken. This is a good video about this. I’ll share more on this topic soon. 🔧 The Tool of the Week🔒 Pareto SecurityI found out about Pareto Security a couple of days ago. It’s a tool that will help you avoid the common security mistakes on your mac. It has 33 security checks, runs automatically in the background, and is transparent and private. 🪐 Quote I’m Pondering
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