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Does life end after 35?

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Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by amorphic »

coffeeaddicted wrote: post #82
lectrick wrote: post #67

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1) If you are always tired and a little overweight (or more), get checked for sleep apnea issues at a sleep study center. If you have it, it is sapping your energy. 2) If you are like me and don't like exercise much (nor the time investment) but can no longer deny its benefits, do what I'm doing and do HIIT spin cycle 3 times a week for 25 minutes. It totally works. Feel free to google it, there's a lot of interestin…

Thanks for the hints. I already do regular exercises and keep my weight more or less - it's just getting harder every year. With 30 I never had to think much about this while with 40 it has become an annoying regular routine I have to go through.

If you're not already, look into doing a couple of resistance training sessions per week. You don't have to be He-man lifting huge weights, in fact you're better not to be. Focus on core and "all of body" movements.

You'll not only feel stronger and look healthier, you'll also burn a lot of energy. And as you get older, maintaing strength and flexibility guards against aches, pains and injury.

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by fivethirty »

japhyr wrote: post #11

I turned 40 last year, and I am loving it. I miss the physical resilience of being in my 20s, but I wouldn't trade where I am now to go back to my 20s. I grew up relatively sheltered in New England, and moved to NYC to teach as soon as I graduated from college. I spent my 20s teaching in the city and bicycling around North America in the summers. At 29, I moved to Alaska. I spent my 30's climbing mountains, doing mou…

As someone in their 20s who spends a lot of time climbing and wondering how that lifestyle is going to work out long term with programming, your story sounds pretty inspiring. Nothing terribly substantive, just wanted to say thanks!

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by pjmorris »

hakkasan wrote: post #78
6cxs2hd6 wrote: post #41

Top managers are traditionally drawn from the ranks of 50-somethings. Sure, that's partly due to a retirement age of 65, and partly a function of institutional ladder-climbing. But not just that. Someone in their 50s has a few decades of experience. Almost every situation or problem reminds them of something they've already seen or solved before. Intuition or gut instinct draws on experience, therefore it improves wi…

Yes, my grandpa actually said that when you are young you are freer creatively and take greater risks. This doesn't always lead to better outcomes but it gives you access to opportunities you wouldn't get later in life. Likewise, as you've pointed out, when you are older, your experience opens a different set of doors.

This echoes one of my favorite lines from Lawrence of Arabia, at the end, in Damascus: Lawrence of Arabia: Prince Feisal: "There's nothing further here for a warrior. We drive bargains. Old men's work. Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men. Courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace. And the vices of peace are the vices of old men. Mistrust and caution. It must be so."

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by aianus »

wahsd wrote: post #143
chasing wrote: post #120

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cough(Soylent)cough

Soylent lulz as if that hasn't been done and done again. It's just snake oil under different name.

Please point me to an existing product I can buy today.

I've never looked forward to a product launch as much as this.

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by DanBC »

aianus wrote: post #174
wahsd wrote: post #143

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Soylent lulz as if that hasn't been done and done again. It's just snake oil under different name.

Please point me to an existing product I can buy today. I've never looked forward to a product launch as much as this.

Ensure (http://ensure.com/)

Fortisip (https://www.nutricia.co.uk/fortisip//)

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by danthewireman »

beat wrote: post #36
kyro wrote: post #20

I often worry about whether my startup clock is running out. I'm closer to 30 than 20, finishing up graduate school, and for the most part feel young. But other than the pediatrics ward, the only other time I start to feel my age is when attending some of these startup events. What I try to keep conscious of is knowing what's reported in the media and what isn't, which are often 2 completely different worlds. On Tech…

I came up with the idea for my startup when I was 47. I don't expect it to be able to make a living at it until I'm 49. Age? Pffth. Then again, I'm not hacking together "Facebook for cats" and hoping for some zeitgeist to make it magically successful while buckets of venture capital rain down on my head, either. A college kid would never have come up with what I'm building, because they wouldn't realize the problem I…

> That all said, my 40s have been the best creative period of my life, by far.

Agreed. Wrote my first novel in my 40s.

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by ascendantlogic »

I'm 35. I've worked for a couple small companies and I am at a startup now. I certainly hope my life doesn't end now. I certainly would love to get something started but I feel I'm old enough where I understand the value of family and sane time limits. Looking back I could see myself taking a shot in the dark on something but I'm not necessarily disappointed that I didn't. I've learned so much and continue to each day. If you want to be a billionaire by 25 you'll kill yourself. The odds are so astronomical it's almost funny. I say spend your years learning what you can, then start something when you have savvy and perspective. But that's just me.

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by [deleted] »

api wrote: post #135
eliasmacpherson wrote: post #80

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I know that LinkedIn culturally didn't work crazy hours to get where they were - does anyone know, are any others listed that started out as '9-5' organizations?

I am skeptical of the 60-80 hours thing. It seems like more of a macho thing than a real requirement. The problem is that when you workaholic yourself your productivity per unit time drops, so you're spending more hours but doing as much as you might do in shorter bursts of more focused time. In some cases it's worse... you get total burnout.

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Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by aianus »

DanBC wrote: post #175
aianus wrote: post #174

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Please point me to an existing product I can buy today. I've never looked forward to a product launch as much as this.

Ensure ( http://ensure.com/ ) Fortisip ( https://www.nutricia.co.uk/fortisip// )

Which Ensure is formulated to replace food entirely? As far as I can tell, if I drank enough ensure to get 2400 calories, the other nutrients would be out of wack. As in, a given portion does not have the same DV% of each nutrient.

I'd never heard of Fortisip but from what I can tell it and ensure are both considerably more expensive than regular food, and actually more expensive than eating out.

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by nikatwork »

"In 63 BC as a quaestor in Spain, Julius Caesar is said to have broken down and wept in front of a statue of Alexander the Great, realizing that where Alexander had conquered most of the known world at thirty, Caesar at that age was merely seen as a dandy who had squandered his wife's fortunes as well as his own."
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