A Solid Yap Session

4 sets of 5 pushups

4 sets of 5 squats

topics:

• my experience with calorie counting
• its very easy to over eat
• sneaky calorie dense foods
• the problem of eating when you are bored is like doing drugs because you are bored
• drinking calories
• what foods are satisfying?
• whats the optimal time of day to eat food?
• eating strategically by using the knapsack problem
• choosing what food urge is the most pressing
• thinking about food is "another thing on your plate"
• my experience with arfid
• i feel less bloated because of counting calories
• the feeling of "being done" with work
• my creative muses live in the nighttime
• the mindless urges of checking youtube/email/the internet
• getting through a to-do list doesn't necessarily cause peace of mind
• work is never done, the projects just change
• i need to learn how to convert my agency into gratitude
• you can't directly be grateful, like you can't directly be happy
• the curse of modernity and the societal hedonic treadmill
• should we force people into the wilderness?
• its good to feel grateful about the skills you are working on
• appreciate yourself or risk collapse upon yourself
• the value of building memories
• my experiences being a decade out of college – and what my college friends talk about
• why the biographies of van gogh and napoleon are so long – they wrote a ton of letters that showed us their internal mind states
• a website vs a social media presence
• the value of evidence of work that you've done over the course of your life to feel valuable – especially in a knowledge work economy
• on social media you are constantly competing with strangers in a way that you think that they'll like you
• the random mode button is awesome
• conversations with yourself
• is the persuasion layer inwardly focused or outwardly focused?
• the value of earned media over marketing – my metafilter story
• there is a stark deviation in creativity when posting on a personal site vs social media
• we shrink ourselves for social media platforms

mentioned:

Issue 44: Is Being Well Read Actually a Thing? Part I - Zero to One

The superpower we neglect to use

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