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If you use Instagram I would encourage you to look at this profile: https://instagram.com/hunger4words

It’s a lady who is a speech therapist who has taught her dog to communicate with pre-programmed push buttons.

The foundations of modern science seem to be quite shaky...

This sparks an idea... what if there was a tool that crawled all academic studies’ sources. Basically allowing you to see the root source of every cited study back to square one. Would make it much easier to discover studies based on a pyramid of weaker/wrong studies.

Key factors that separated the elite players from the average:

- one morning and one night period of very deliberate practice

- an extra hour of sleep

- leisure time was rated as more relaxing

Yep, I actually started a company that cleans data reliably because of this. It’s usually a huge waste of resources for a highly paid person to clean data (like ML specialists) and most data cleaning companies just outsource to overseas resources that aren’t reliable or knowledgeable beyond an Excel skill set.

Last year I resorted to blocking off 11-230 every single day of the week. Sometimes people grumble about the lack of openness on my calendar but end up scheduling around it anyways.

So now I get that whole time to myself and take a lunch break either at the beginning or ending of that block.

Phew, thought I was the only one who went through these cycles. The maker > maintenance > manager/planning cycle always feels unsettling during the maintenance phase.

The Book by Alan Watts. It metaphorically and literally puts a lot of thoughts I’ve had into words while also pushing the limits of my own perspective and philosophical thought.

Oh man, Super Sad True Love Story had me seeing its storylines surface in American culture for months. Even new news I’m like; “this is just how it happened in the book!” Great read and great author.

Good point. Never measured MHR explicitly although I know there are estimations. It’s probably between 55% and 65% of my MHR. It’s literally right at the transition point of being able to talk while running and not being able to haha

I usually run in the evening. Honestly a good question because that could be significant in its sleep impact.

The magic exercise for me is jogging at least 3 miles at about a heart rate of 150-160. I consistently get 3 hours deep sleep according to the AutoSleep app and dream heavily. Otherwise I’m usually getting 1-1.5 hours deep sleep with other exercise and less than 1 if I don’t do anything all day. Just an anecdote for comparison.

These are excellent points, I think it’s underestimated how difficult it is to get approval and budget for a small project that doesn’t directly contribute to the bottom line or have huge savings. These small but impactful solutions using Access act as both a stepping stone to greater skill sets, a way to build POCs for non-tech or low-tech people, and to avoid months of politics in big organizations.

I’ve had projects that were red-taped before getting off the ground due to resources being placed elsewhere. I then take those project ideas, and instead build them in Access as a POC using shared drives, splitting the database, etc. By the time I have 100 users saying how useful the application is in a couple months, other bigger projects haven’t even finished a project plan. Meanwhile we’re then ready to scale the solution using an appropriate stack and basically can just say “replicate our POC features but improve performance, security, accessibility, etc”. So far that’s worked pretty well for me.

In summary: find people’s Excel files with a mess of VBA and formulas —> see if the use case should be expanded —> build POC in Access without permission/budget from a bunch of people —> see how it goes and then plan to scale with the evidence you’ve gathered from your POC.

Orders come and go inconsistently since almost all of them come from referrals and/or organic site traffic. This does result in a wide range of requests which keeps things interesting.

Basically all of the work is in the beginning then it’s just subscription based for the automation refreshes (or an agreed upon amount if services are continuously running) and any minor updates.

I run a business automation services site (https://www.mergeyourdata.com/). Basically I build an automation for small businesses and schedule them to run. Took years of learning the ins and outs of the biggest pain point areas for businesses and the technical solutions that would solve those. The learning all pretty much took place at my regular day job and I was just able to expand on those lessons.

Sounds like the perfect setup, good work!

Excellent work! In a crowded space that’s pretty impressive to be profitable that quickly.

How much maintenance/work on the product do you do per week excluding marketing and sales?

I eat meat but jeez, the study’s author is incredibly motivated to be biased:

“She has, however, consulted for and advised: The Meat Advisory Panel, Marlow Foods (Quorn), the Health Supplement Information Service and the British Egg Information Service, amongst others.”

Whoa! That’s incredible, thank you.

Just curious what region you’re in? I’m in the Southeast US and haven’t been able to find anything too far below MSRP for them.

Ah, I dealt with this data entry manual process many times at work. We were able to build a few solutions to remove 80-90% of the human work for these processes. It took a few years to get good at but now I run a business that specializes in this type of stuff.

I think that’s a severe underestimation of the impact of a popular and easy place of congregation. The center of power being the platform is how things work in the digital realm and the in-person realm.

As a random example, if someone is shopping for a steak, they normally would go to a market, grocery store, or butcher shop in a popular plaza near their home. If you’re in America, most likely that steak is sourced from a farm owned by a large corporation. You could go to local butcher who sources their meat from local small farms and add 30 minutes to your shopping, but it doesn’t have potatoes and green beans you'd like on the side of that steak dinner. Some people will absolutely make that trip, but not nearly as much as if that butcher got a shop in the popular plaza near everything else, owned by a commercial real estate company.

While the physical shopping example obviously has more friction than the digital example, the value is still high to provide a centrally located platform for consumers, creators and businesses to congregate. The power is rightfully focused on those that provide that platform.

What you describe feels similar in certain ways to insulin pumps. They’ve definitely helped people live longer and healthier lives but still have cause injuries that otherwise wouldn’t have happened with human administered injections.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4915491

Seems like a bunch of these financial apps (like Personal Capital as well) are jumping on the cash management train. Seems like a good thing for their customers. Anyone have insight as to why this isn’t a good thing?

Pretty good article that mentions a lot of the theories and variables behind the increase in pedestrian deaths.

As a biker, the culture towards pedestrians and cyclists has seemed to have been getting dramatically more hostile. I’m in a share the road state where roads that don’t have dedicated bike lanes means that cyclists have the right to the entire lane. Even while riding at the speed limit of 25 mph, drivers yell at me and try to run me off the road by coming inches to my tire. It’s wild. Not to mention seeing vehicles try to hurriedly take a right turn before the pedestrians who have a walk signal can take their second step across the street.

The most popular ones are the Dexcom sensors and then the Freestyle Libre. Unfortunately you need a prescription for both in the US. Otherwise, if you'd like to monitor your blood sugar, you'll have to do it via a blood glucose meter and just space out your testing. You can buy those over the counter at any pharmacy/superstore and they're relatively cheap.

If you end up buying a blood glucose meter, the best way to get a good idea of your blood sugar movement in your body (if there is any) would be testing at several times throughout the day after specific events (like eating and/or exercising). Waking up (for fasting glucose), pre-meal (to get a baseline), post-meal several times (15 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours). I would also experiment with how it reacts to different types of food and beverages. For example, try drinking a glass of orange juice and testing 5-15 minutes after. Some non-diabetics still experience very small blood sugar spikes from liquid carb sources.

Haha I found out the same thing. Has been the most impactful purchase on my personal health in the recent years.

I’ve been using the app called AutoSleep (I think it was like $5) and it’s pretty awesome. You can even export your own data. Highly recommended.

Obviously not a solution to the native sleep tracking issue but definitely good for what’s available right now.

Seems like consolidated stockpiles of weapons would make for easy targets of destruction if there was to be a type of civil conflict. Plus if there is a civil conflict, guerrilla warfare is a huge strategic capability for the side that doesn’t have all of the money and technology to utilize. Having to go check out guns at a local municipality not only puts that strategy at risk during the checkout period, but I would imagine surveillance technology would then quickly identify “dissidents” and allow the federal government to target those dissidents quickly and easily.

“The idea of “personal brand” sounds phony because it is. Brands are carefully contrived; they are not real. Brands are flat, soulless, and artificial “personalities” designed to convince others that the brand is something it is not.” Good point.

Sounds like the author is getting to what some philosophers would call Essence. For some this Essence would include a judgment of thecAuthenticity of their being.