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More ego than practical.

There’s a psychological factor. Many people believed it wasn’t humanly possible to do a sub 4 minute mile before Bannister accomplished it. Once that was done the flood gates opene…

Magnesium Glycinate worked well for me, take it an hour before bed or so. L-Threonate is too expensive, citrate gave me diarrhea. Much more deep sleep with Glycinate, some folks do…

Elites who put in a lot of work are world class. You can’t outwork genetics.

Some people are naturally talented at things. It’s no different than an average athlete who works extremely hard and an elite athlete who puts in half the work but still outperform…

Life is short. If folks want to spend their time in Texas more power to them.

I’m an ultra runner, I’ll do 50-60 mpw weeks during peak weeks with strength training. I take 10g creatine, it did wonders for me. More energy and mental sharpness. Strength traini…

I take 10g a day, have for a couple years now. Started mostly because of training but it does wonders in sleep deprived states. 5g would probably be fine without a lot of training …

I counteract it with Magnesium Glycinate. Works well for me.

It’s preposterous, companies are blindly funding slop and the product is fool’s gold.

Corporate tech has accelerated into a preposterous trajectory. Burn resources at all costs to appear productive and use proxy metrics to measure success. Fire productive employees …

Chinese property sector crisis (2020–present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_property_sector_crisis...

Junk

My mom left the house as a kid. Dad worked and did it all during the week. Definitely felt like this was a rare thing growing up. I did spend time with my mom on the weekend though…

While consuming about 800 calories.

Your body stores roughly 2000 calories in glycogen. They are burning calories but nowhere near the amount a middle pack would be at this pace. So ~2800 calories of carbs with some …

Some people always want the ‘hack’ or easy way out. It’s unsurprising to me.

You have to work on your will to live incrementally.

Only if you continue to push yourself while training. What used to be difficult absolutely gets easier in endurance after training.

I can’t imagine any other group who would be as calm as NASA astronauts. Maybe SEALs or other special forces. It looks like there are a few astronauts that were SEALs, one returned…

I work/program on CalTrain but that’s pretty common. NYC subway or BART seems a bit more challenging. It’s overall time much better spent than being stuck in a car.

It comes down to dopamine and if there was friction involved to get that dopamine.