Today I am going to share with you an alarming article about how it is obviously our phones, the amazing cystic-fibrosis medical breakthrough, Trevor Noah interviews Sam Altman, a hilarious account of health optimizing and how to join the Top 1% in wealth. The regular longer post returns on Friday featuring the usual mix of eclectic collection of curated links along with my commentary, thank you for reading my blog.
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Back with another short Tuesday post. Back to you on Friday with the usual longer post.
I have been posting here at least once per week since 2012. In the early days I was posting daily lol. Anyway, I am not sure why I say we, this has always been my own labor of love while awaiting to be discovered one day, please laugh.
It’s Obviously Our Phones
We are all addicted to our phones. I get a weekly report (on my phone of course) how much time I spend on it and it is ridiculous. I comfort myself that almost all of this time is to keep up with the content that keeps coming so I can find the worthy content to curate for you here in this blog. I could spend all this time promoting my blog but it just does not feel right.
This article lays it all out what the phones are doing to us. And it should alarm us to change our ways. You can start being more eclectic and totally ignore so much clickbait shit drowning everything online. And stop scrolling on social media too. Just take a brief second, Think Before You Click!
The Cystic-Fibrosis Breakthrough That Changed Everything
The disease once guaranteed an early death—but a new treatment has given many patients a chance to live decades longer than expected. What do they do now?
If you wanted to learn about cystic-fibrosis and what science did for the people suffering from it, this IS the article. I am so happy for them and so grateful for the scientists who stuck with it. And thanks to the wonderful job the author did telling us all about this glorious scientific achievement.
Cystic fibrosis once all but guaranteed an early death. When the disease was first identified, in the 1930s, most babies born with CF died in infancy. The next decades were a grind of incremental medical progress: A child born with CF in the ’50s could expect to live until age 5. In the ’70s, age 10. In the early 2000s, age 35. With Trikafta came a quantum leap. Today, those who begin taking the drug in early adolescence, a recent study projected, can expect to survive to age 82.5—an essentially normal life span.
Trevor Noah Interviews Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
I really enjoyed this podcast and learning more about this guy and where he wants to go with this AI thingie. And Trevor Noah is a great interviewer. Of course we all knew that. Make up your own minds, I am just the curator here.
I’ve Optimized My Health to Make My Life as Long and Unpleasant as Possible
Everything above has focused on the education part of my blog’s mission. We now switch to entertaining you. And if you don’t laugh after reading this brilliant piece, I don’t know what to say. Maybe demand a full refund? Oh wait, my blog is totally free. Ad and sponsor free too.
It starts out like this…
I’ve done it.
After years of biohacking and tweaking, I have become… optimal.
Body fat percentage, optimal. Triglycerides, optimal. Dietary fiber, weekly activity levels, resting heart rate, 365-day meditation app streak, all optimal.
Now I can spend the next one hundred years staying optimal until I die.
I go for a long hike on a moonlit mountain trail, watching my step counter the entire way.
I feel the morning sun warm my face, and rush inside to use my sun lamp, which stimulates vitamin D production without skin damage.
I sit motionless on the floor of an empty room, enjoying the perfect harmony between my omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.
Until the hilarious crushing end LOL, don’t miss it.
Wealth Needed to Join the Top 1%, by Country
If you are from Monaco, can you sponsor my blog please? Lol.
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Good news on CF! The decades to come will be amazing on the medical front, we’re finally figure out stuff. Looking forward to gene editing!
Good post here–the phrase “financial nihilism” occurred to me during the Gamestop saga, so I’m glad to see somebody else using it:
https://www.epsilontheory.com/financial-nihilism/
Nick is right about the medical news! Thanks so much for posting a reminder
of what a difference improvement in knowledge makes.
Thanks for the great links!
Lost another subscriber…and it just hurts.
Will respond when I feel better.
I need intervention smh.
Running late here… Good stuff today again! Sorry someone foolishly unsubscribed. I still say this is the best blog out there and I always find good stuff to read here, even when I have seen one or two items already.
Thanks as always!!
@ Nick: I did not know much at all about cystic-fibrosis. So I was happy to see the progress/cure. Only Epsilon Theory will publish something titled “Financial Nihilism”, so on brand 🙂
@ DML: Thanks for always taking the time to comment, sometimes I wonder if anyone reads or cares.
@ Carl: Thanks again for the kind words.
I went into accounting in college because I despised marketing. Well, judging from my blog’s metrics this is still true!
I did get finally the first Capital One Venture X card personal referral, no longer a virgin lol.
It is Spring here today…
After today I have just 3 more tax returns to do, yipppee! Two are in the burner with just a few docs missing which should be here shortly. The third is, well, is always last 🙂