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Benjamin Graham - The Intelligent Investor is a good one to start learning about holistic way to invest money without hopefully burning yourself. As in how to stop overspending, that might benefit from some journalling and maybe a bit of monthly expense management? Start by understanding where does your money actually go, what are your top spend categories and where you can start cutting off expenses. I find having one of those online banks that help you categories spend help. You can also use these as a virtual wallet and never carry more than 100$. If you have to top up frequently, I find I am less likely to overspend because your higher cortex kicks in and goes like "ugh...what is it this time?, How am I toping up again WTF?" If you are spending a lot on delieveries, takeaways, restaurants, nights out, gadgets etc then those can be some immediate savings to make. Consider that, for example, a single night out of 80$ spent on dinner could be spread across a 7-day worth of groceries for one person. That's one meal vs 21 meals. Selling stuff on Facebook market place and Ebay can get you some money back for any stuff you bought unecessarily. In the long term, it comes back to understanding what drives you to overspend. Maybe you are a bit out of touch with your values or you are part of a social group where that sort of behaviour is rewarded? (expensive clothes, watches, lots of nights out etc) , what do you think? I used to know a few folks in sales and in these groups overspending was kinda glorified, like they would go through an evening spending 1000 EUROs per table of 4 people twice a week. Despite earning tons of money, they were always down to 0 at the end of the month.

If your immune system is healthy , you'll probably fight it off, within 3-4 days, depends what it is and how fast before your antibody production is full on. Lots of good advice above already to support immediate immune response, just don't combine medication and herbs, choose one or the other. Take it easy, sleep it off, maybe something like Leo's veggie soup if you have the energy could do you good or ask someone to make it for you. Feel better soon.

interesting observation. Do you feel like you have a tension on your chest when you exercise? Like you want to take a deeper breath but you can't? Is the feeling solely a tension (like somebody has stepped on your chest) or do you feel that it is also in your upper breathing aparatus (feeling of having someone's hand over your throat) Do you experience things like nasal congestion and runny nose / itchy eyes a lot?

ofcourse, you need to understand the strategy, the deep mechanics of the game and all of that. But you don't need to be a top level pro to be able to tutor. It does help to have a lot of experience tho.

If you are indeed being serious then there are probably two ways: play poker for money teach poker for money The later is probably more doable than the first as I assume the competition in high end league is quite savage but don't take that as a limiting belief. Maybe you could coach young people who are trying to become better and incorporate things like emotional mastery and mindfulness in the tutoring.

Activision have completely abandoned the classic series of COD 1, 2 And World At War that made the series so special. They created Zombies, endless remakes of the same Modern Warfare. The multiplayer remains the same since MW2. The same happened to Medal of Honour, Allied Assault was brilliant and beautiful, everything after was shit and the series died. Creative Assembly are slowly killing of Total War series refusing to listen to their fan base and instead of creating a new beautiful epic campaign with a new engine to get all of their old millennial fanbase back (most of whome, like me, are still waiting patiently) they are milking Warhammer shit series and it is going downhill. Pharaoh was a disaster. I want something as groundbreaking as Rome 2 or Medieval 2 in its time. One such game would rocket launch the company on the horizon. They have the money and the skills. Ubisoft has killd Assasin's Creed long time ago, Valhalla was the worst of all series in my opinion. I like what Rockstar have done with RDR2 but I feel that was their peak and the new GTA will be crap, hope I'm wrong. I hope that whatever comes from Bethesda as their new Elder Scrolls 6 will be what each of its predecessaors was, if they fuck it up, like they have been since Skyrim and Fallout 4, they might lose their core audience to people who don't mind playing Older Scrolls online or replaying the old series endlessly which means no new revenue from core audience. Not sure where I stand with Diablo 4 but I wonder if there is a reason the hype is nowhere near it was with 3. Maybe Blizzard have also been reprioritizing. All of these games still have their old audience waiting in the shadow , desiring them to do better. All they've been doing tho is regurgitating the same game with same engine, slightly better graphics as Nvidia keeps upgrading their tech but other than that there is no soul, no story and low replay ability. On the other hand I am excited about From Software, they have been showing consistency, slow but noticeable progress and each of their game is better than the one before. They basically took an incredible concept of Dark Souls and took it to another level without offending anyone, without destroying the old game while including tens of millions new players with Elden Ring. I would like to see them move a little bit away from their current graphics and incorporate something more advanced in the near couple years but what they've got going is definitely worth keeping. Larian Studies is also one I have lot of hope for. I hope they have some sort of Divinity 3 coming up and that it will match the glory of Divinity 2.

180 mins of zone 2 per week is actually right into the WHO gold standard recommendation per week so I think that's about perfect volume.

@Jannes thanks for the clarification. Well, put it to the test and see how you get on Maybe it will work for you and if not you can fine tune along the way

It might potentially work although it sounds a bit unholistic. Some concerns i'd have for this sort of training: why do you want to specifically be "skrinking" certain muscles if the idea is to maintain. Maintenance would ideally exclude any atrophy. If you are not going to be working on hypertrophy (gaining mass) any atrophy (losing mass) you get, you won't get back. This might become a problem once you start ageing. i feel like there is a bit of overuse of certain muscle groups (e.g. knee extensions, lunges) and lack of deployment of other groups, for example there is very little to preserve upper body strength (pectoralis major and minor, triceps - lateral, medial and long head, biceps, brachii and long head, deltoit al 3 heads, rectus abdominis, the obliques, etc. - maybe a bit with deadlift once a week but without higher weights it may not be enough and you could lose strength in those areas ending with a sort of long distance cyclist type of body ) there also seems to be no focus on your core strength and stability like hanging leg raises, any form of ab lifts, planks etc. for the long term you should also think about explosiveness so your fast twitch muscles don't atrophy (think about being able to stop yourself from falling when you're 65 - that's purely fast twitch) but also a little bit of speed, peak power (helps preserve bone mass), peak cardiopulmonary performance (V02 max - significant association with longevity and some flexibility / agility - presrvation of good mobility, joint health etc. - maybe you have separate plan for those? I do get the idea and can understand the logic behind it. Totally fine that you don't want to appear muscular, not everybody does. But maybe there are things like rocking (wearing backpacks with weights), mountain biking, bouldering, swimming, some plyometric stuff etc you could also consider including in the long term to compensate for anything that won't get sufficient focus in the gym so that you still get sufficient deployment of all muscle groups. Gym is not the only way to train and tons of people don't enjoy it. Thankfully there are unlimited ways to be active these days.

@Jameskells its one of the best purchases i ever made with regards to tech upgrade. I love the limitations it has on integration with other apps and that it doesn't allow me to go online properly. I plugged it to my Google Drive but that's about it. I use it as a sandbox tool. I noticed that when I type on keyboard my mind slips into analytical mode then when I write manually that helps me become more creative and reflective, which I'm trying to get into with my side business. Remarkable has, so far been amazing with that. The writing feels organic and natural. Easy to add, easy to remove. You have a few available pens although I prefer the mechanical pencil for most of the time. I don't notice any delay in writing compared to real notebook. The Pen has a soft feel, fits well in your hand, has no weird shapes or angles. I have already gone through one replacement tip but people say a single one should last you for months, even years so maybe I was pressing to hard or something, not sure. You get a whole pack of replacement tips packed with the pen. Functionality is pretty basic - add new sheet, new journal, new folders - that's about it. Settings are extremely basic too. There is auto upload to the cloud each time you type something and if you're offline, it gets saved to internal memory which isn't huge but sufficient. The Remarkable app has a nice integration between the device, your phone and your computer so transfering files between your tech is super easy. What it doesn't have is real time annotations. Like you would be recording a video while drawing something for the audience or making notes/ drawing to show a point. I tried and that isn't an available function at the moment. I would like that but maybe it would defeat the purpose of the device being a sandbox. Its not a big deal right now. You can also download ebooks, pdfs and annotate them, which is phenomenal. The only downside with ebooks is that they can't be made for Kindle , I don't think Remarkable can access kindle format as it is copywrighted by Amazon. but if you can get free online ebooks, it could work. Haven't tried yet, ebooks were never my thing. The device has no back light so you're not being exposed to blue light, LEDs and its not draining your battery although that becomes a downside if you want to journal in the evening as you need a bulb light which tends to reflect of the surface but if you use the right angle or just use larger lights in your room, its not a problem. I actually prefer not being exposed to blue light in the evening so it works perfectly. The interesting function it has is that it can transcribe your notes to typed format although I use chat GPT for that which works brilliantly. You get 1 year Connect membership but you don't really need to activate it to use the device, it has some nice additional features like the One Drive and Google Drive integrations and some additional storage but other than that I don't see much difference. Maybe over time, the cloud storage becomes a need. The cost is small tho after year 1 so I added it to my business expenses. I think its about 2.50$ a month? Battery is pretty decent, I don't notice any downsides to it so far. Charging seems a bit slower but I'm not bothered by it. I charge it like twice a month. I would maybe like to see more templates tho? Although if you are creative enough you can create your own templates in Canva or whatever and upload them into Remarkable so that's not a big issue. For me, it has become part of my productivity set. Between Remarkable, Notion and Google Pixel, I've created a pretty good second brain system for collecting information, storing, editing, brainstorming and archiving. Its not there yet but I feel the device has a been a piece of a puzzle I was missing for years and didn't know about. Overall 5/5 but note its not a tablet, means no social, no games, no news. It is basically an unlimited virtual journal notebook with limted integration capabilities to your One Drive, Dropbox and Google Drive. Its a no bullshit, no distraction device and that's its biggest strength. Its light, compact and satisfying to work with. You gotta have a protective case for it tho. The biggest downside is the cost but I think its worth it.

Hey, Do any of you use any device such as reMarkable? I would like something that works well with hand written notes but can communicated at least with a few platforms like Google Drive and Microsoft Cloud and maybe even allows some interactive exchange of information. Basically a device that works EXACTLY like an electronic diary but allows sending stuff out. I am hearing good things about reMarkable but also a lot of criticism so curious if people have tried everything. I'd like something that could, for example communicate with my Notion. I also can't delete from journals so end up tearing pages, crossing over and generally turning things into a mess. I am mainly looking to: brainstorm ideas - requires lots of notes, underlining, drawing, colour coding, changing font colours etc read articles - mostly pdf E-books benefit be able to take whatever I write and upload it elsewhere Thanks!

No idea, sorry. Never even heard of it before. What are you trying to improve? Libido? Energy?

I'd say in the order of priorities, look into that the reflux before fixing the oral health. Yes, it can be a contributor especially if you suffer form silent reflux. There are tests that can be done, usually including oesophageal scan with a camera to check if you have acid-driven erosion in your oesophagus, if so then that needs to be treated immediately with whatever means available. There are also tests that take the camera all the way down to your stomach. It is unpleasant but worth it potentially. The reason this needs to be a priority is that acid reflux is the biggest risk factor for oesophageal cancer and a potential indication that something's going on in the stomach that should be investigated. I'm saying it to make you aware and incentivise you to take it extremely seriously. Even if you had to take bunch of medication for a short term to fix it, you should. Second to that you want to begin to understand what's causing your reflux and whether there is any form of potential stomach lining damage, ulcer, chronic inflammation, irritation etc.. Again, a good gastroenterologist can help you with that. Maybe even worth asking them to consider H-Pylor testing. There is a breath test a doctor can do called Urea 13C or they can do a stool test called SAT - Stool Antigen Test. When it comes to diet, high protein carnivore could be a suspect as high fat diets especially diets high in saturated fat with lots of beef, tallow and butter have been linked to higher odds of GERD although I'm not sure why it happens, something to do with the upper gastric sphincter being weakened due to high fat content in the diet? Not sure. Dairy, as already mentioned above could be an issue or doesn't have to be. That depends how you tolerate it. I've eliminated dairy mostly from my diet since I constantly have the urge to clear my throat when eating it so its not working great. If you suspect dairy to be an issue try replacing it for plant based alternatives for a few weeks and see what happens. With regards to dental hygiene, that's coming lower on the priority list , sure you want to keep optimal hygiene but if the tartar is a consequence of acid reflux that it is going to be coming back if you don't deal with the above. We have gastroenterologist on the forum who might shed more light into this as well @undeather TLDNR Look into that acid reflux with priority, its a potentially dangerous condition but a good gastroenterologist can help you diagnose and treat it. Dental plaq is a second-tier priority in this case as it might have nothing to do with your oral health and could be coming from acid erosion.

@Growly sorry, been off for a bit. I didn't find the full paper of this study (although I didn't search extensively) so can't look at their methodology and most importantly whether they controlled for any confounding variables that could skew the results such as weight loss, nutrient status, caloric intake, macronutrient intake etc. It is certainly an interesting result but the mechanisms aren't exactly clear to me. Still, if you experience apnoea, maybe give it a shot. From my experience it takes about 3-6 months to fully incorporate such a major transition in lifestyle and I'd highly encourage you to do it properly because half-arsed veganism can be a disaster.

@thierry glad you feel better. Still, do keep an eye on those homocysteine levels and check at least every 3 months.

if this is still on the table then heck yeah ! I like Jordan's content but would be curious to see you guys discuss the things you mutually disagree on. Also @Leo Gura it would be interesting for you to get on Modern Wisdom, Chris is looking for new people all the time as well.

@Schizophonia im on phone so can't quote but what I meant is , you commented previously to something i wrote about processed food and you attached all those photos i including the photo of 3-bean chilli..right? So i assumed what you meant by that was something like "look at this dish, it's better than processed food, and then you posted Cronomer logo and a can of beans, which I assumed was meant reinforce that message? Or did i misunderstand that comment? Also to answer regarding needing to eat half a kilo of beans...this is just one food type of hundreds of possible things you can cook. Of course you wouldn't be eating the same thing all the time, i agree that's a bit boring. There are numerous ways to add more protein to your food even on a plant based diet

do you see how that defeats your previous argument? You're running around like a child who is rebelling against adults screaming "Beenz mage my tummy huuut, I dont uajk beenz ". Just because you can't tolerate it, doesn't mean that this is an unsustainable way of eating. And obviously that calculation was for one portion, not a whole day of eating...I thought that was pretty obvious. You're free to eat whatever you like, just be consistent with your own arguments

@integration journey It should almost be automatic. Think of your top values as an internal guiding compass, not as some form of searchlight. You should feel, deep down, when your values are being compromised. Feelings of anxiety, restlessness, anger or irritation are common when you've been compromising on one of your values. I also worked with a life coach years ago who suggested I condense mine to 5 but batch them in sets of 3s because a lot of my values were kinda hinting at similar things. And that works much better for me. If you don't feel it is automatic then journaling can help you unravel some of those blockages, maybe you're subconsciously resisting something. Because your values should almost be like your second brain, they should be automatically shaping your decisions, impacting what activities give you reward and which make you feel upset. Like when you look at something , for example you're in a meeting at work and people are discussing using this new supplier of temporary human resources that is known for cutting labour costs of their employees and while all your colleagues are excited due to cost savings to your company, you're looking at that and thinking "i don't really like that", that's usually your value systems speaking maybe because one of your values is justice or freedom or equality. Or like looking at a meal you've been given at a restaurant and thinking "I don't want to put this in my body" while everyone around you doesn't seem to care would be an indication that Health is a strong value of yours Make small observations how interactions and situations in your average day make you feel and make take note in your phone to have something to journal on later. Over time there will be hints on what sort of things seem to give you a boost and what sort of things irritate you - then you can re-form your values accordingly.

I recreated that dish posted above (Chilli non-Carne with kidney beans and red lentils) based roughly on how I'd make it and the ingredients I'd assume I'd be using. This doesn't include salt and spices / herbs. I think this is pretty decent complete essential amino acid profile 31g of protein (I could easily smash twice this many legumes so could make it up to 45g of protein in a single portion) which would tip the dish to about 920 calories I assume as you'd have to adjust for using one extra onion and more tomatoes and passata to thicken the sauce. 20g of fibre in a single dish is pretty f***ng epic almost no saturated fats this could be made without olive oil for anyone who dislikes those extra calories

Its one of those topics in nutrition that unfortunately gets way more attention than it should, mainly because of people like Dave (but also others), who despite their immense following fails to grasp some of the most basic ideas in nutritional sciences such as the hierarchy of evidence, the failure of mechanisms to translate in human outcome data and in general the risk of following fad trends for the sake of social media attention... Anyways... Back to antinutrients. The way to look at this is to ask yourself: "if indeed phytonutrients were such an issue, how would we know"? The obvious answer to that question would be that "people who consume the most of them would run into severe health problems". Right? Like, for example if the concern with phytic acid is that it , say, blocks the absorption of iron, zinc and calcium, would we expect to see that people who consume the most nuts and seeds have...what? the most osteoporosis? the most iron deficiency anaemia? The most immunosuppression due to severe zinc deficiency? General malnutrition issues? Yet when we take a step back from mechanisms (e.g. phytic acid blocks iron absorbtion) and look at the large population data (meaning what happens when we look at human studies in real living people, not in petri dish) we don't see any of that. In fact, people who tend to eat more of these foods that are rich in antinutrients (vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts, legumes, greens) tend to have less osteoporosis and less osteopenia and, in general a better health, be it from the position of chronic disease (heart, cancer, diabetes etc) or be it from the position of nutrient status (deficiencies, malnutrition etc). This is a major critic of reductionist approach to nutrition in general that overfocussing on mechanisms and then inferring recommendations to public based on that is not just stupid but dangerous. Take an example of soy: Soy contains a bunch of phytochemicals like Genistein, Daidzenin or Formononetin. Someone like Dave Asprey or Mark Hyman would find a mechanistic study that sees that when you drop genistein on a testicle cell from a rat, something happens. And they would proclaim "aha! soy is bad because it gives you testicular cancer" But at the same time, these guys don't care that when we look at human outcome data (meaning mostly epidemiology) what we see is that people who regularly consume soy have - less prostate cancer, less bowel cancer, less lung cancer, better cardiovascular health and just tons of other improvements. This is why we have the hierarchy of evidence, because mechanisms are just so meaningless most of the time. And while sometimes mechanisms are interesting because they may incentivise new area of research in areas where evidence quality is poor, in topics where we already have robust human data, (such as benefits of nuts and seeds) mechanisms just aren't relevant anymore and all they do is confuse the hell out of everybody. So what Dave is doing in this case is propagating quackery, muddying water for people who don't need to be concerned about this and generally making money on creating confusion...which isn't very nice TLDNR Walnuts are fine, don't worry about phytic acid, it is looking at functional nutrition from the wrong end.

Next thing you'll know, Adderall enriched baby formulas are the new hit among genZ parents

@Schizophonia no disagreement there 🙂 that's what I'd call a perfect batch. Cook 10 times as much in a single portion and you'll basically ace veganism on budget

The argument was made for the sake of someone who is vegan, intends to remain vegan, has low level of nutritional knowledge (relatively common in vegan communities) but wants to remain reasonably healthy. The aim of the argument was not to try to convince you guys to eat processed food I agree with you that ideally if you're an omnivore you won't benefit from eating a plant based diet made out of mostly ultra processed food. I don't personally think veganism is unhealthy. Longitudinal studies show comparable results to Mediterranean diet which is sort of a gold standard of nutrition where longevity, chronic disease and all cause mortality is used as an end-line. There are just lots of nuances and it takes some research, practice and experience to get it right. The ethics of veganism is the ultimate argument and anyone who chooses to avoid harm should not be discouraged from the path but they need to be supported from the health perspective espcially if they are young or trying to get pregnant or already have an existing health condition. That was the core of my argument, sometimes UPF can help towards that endeavour but ofcourse it can also harm such as when vegans overeat fries, burgers and hypercaloric hyperpalatable vegan junk.

@integral I don't want to be telling you what to do man but that's such a HUGE set of red flags that I'd seriously be considering terminating that relationship. I am sorry for the health issues she is facing but we have a system in place to support chronic disease. But I doubt it's right that you are being asked to be the caretaker if you're not even married. Unless you feel this person is ultimately your soulmate and you know "she's the one" but I don't get that vibe from the way you describe her. People can change...but most don't, especially not those with a massive victim mentality and self entitlement issues. And you only have one life and your youth won't last forever.....