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Building D2C brands among other things (raising a little human being, hosting board games, and trying to live better through fitness, diet) Embracing #parenthood #fitness #gardening in 🇸🇬 & 🇲🇾. Hailing from 🇲🇺
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
One month in 2025,
👍 reduced sugary drinks
👍 using AI tools as a "Thought Partner"
👎 have not reduced meat consumption (averaging 10 meals vs target 6 meals)
😐 averaging 15 min cardio 3 times per week
Just got this subscription from www.linkedin.com/posts/lennyr... @lennysan.bsky.social Have to say - a deal like this is a deal you don't miss.
Back on Superhuman (ditching Apple Mail and Spark) and getting Notion Plus & Perplexity Pro. Not sure I can optimise Linear/Granola though 🤔
Shared and re-shared many times by others across various channels, and attributed to the late Charlie Munger:
1️⃣ Don't sell stuff you don't want to buy.
2️⃣ Don't work for people you don't want to become.
3️⃣ Create win-win relationships for all.
#2025 #10resolutions
7️⃣ Reducing sugar consumption via soft drinks & cold beverage purchased outside
8️⃣ Find ways to improve my sleep quality (consumable products dont seem to have any effect on me)
9️⃣ Build up a portfolio career with new gigs
🔟 Take care of others
#2025 #10resolutions
4️⃣ Grow my collection of air purifying plants to 25 (from 4). Mostly for aesthetic purpose though I also do enjoy having plants around.
5️⃣ Add the most relevant AI tools to my "AI Thought Partner Stack (AITPS)" to 10x my productivity.
6️⃣ Low priority upgrade to my hardware stack.
#2025 #10resolutions
1️⃣ Planning to resume weekend walks in 🇸🇬 with alumni (work, school) and other groups
2️⃣ Adding 30 min cardio daily 🏃
3️⃣ Continue Meat-Free Monday (limit meat consumption to 6 meals or less per week)
24. According to Chess Journal, the world’s most expensive chess set, which includes diamonds and emeralds and was commissioned by Great Britain’s Royale Jewel Company, is valued at more than $9.8 million.
23. Status is a possible cause of dropping fertility rate.
22. Over the past 30 years, battery costs have fallen by 99%
21. Nearly 400,000 guests stayed at Airbnbs in Paris for the Olympics, equivalent to 5 Olympic stadiums.
20. 20 years after the electric light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison in 1879, just 3% of US households had electricity.
19. Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is projected to account for a quarter of the world’s working-age population within a few decades and have more people of working age than China in about 10 years.
18. Apple has spent more than $20 billion to produce original TV shows and movies. However, Apple TV+ generates less viewing in one month than Netflix does in one day.
17. There are 33 million Starbucks Rewards members (1/10 American adults). At the end of March 2024, there was $1.9 billion of stored card value on Starbucks’ balance sheet.
16. In 2023, McDonald's bought 2 billion eggs from agribusiness giant Cargill.
15. In an unprecedented move, the Tokyo Stock Exchange sent letters to any company trading below book value to ask for a concrete plan to reverse this valuation.
14. China controls 40% of the world’s commercial shipbuilding capacity. The US has just 0.5%
13. Blue zones, “regions of the globe that supposedly contain lots and lots of extremely old people“, have nothing to teach us about extending human life.
12. 75% of containers that come to the US from overseas return to their origin empty.
11. Why did Egyptian pharaohs so often marry their sisters?
10. Italy’s tax code effectively bans startups? Companies are taxed before making any money, based on how many assets they have. If they have lots of assets but aren’t making money (eg they’re still doing research/in stealth), then taxman get confused & hostile, run increasingly punitive audits
however, despite learning of a pending Trump victory before anyone else, Jane Street still managed to lose money on their trade because they [incorrectly thought a Trump win would be bad for] US markets."
9. "My favorite story about Sam Bankman-Fried involves his time at Jane Street Capital where he built a system to get the 2016 US Presidential election results [a few minutes] before any mainstream media outlets...
8. You shouldn’t say ‘hello’ in chat. [NoHello.net]
7. In 2024, around 10% of Anguilla’s GDP will come from fees for its .ai domain name.
6. Ozempic seems to be changing the second hand clothes market, creating a surge in plus-size women’s apparel sales. Size 3XL listings have doubled over the last two years. Link
5. Takkyu-bin is a super convenient Japanese luggage forwarding service. For $13 you can ship heavy suitcases between hotels or airports, so you never need to carry your bags.
4. Millions of free bikes have been given to children in rural India, doubling the number of girls cycling to school, increasing attendance and reducing dropouts.
3. Floating or swimming to work is becoming more popular in Bern, Switzerland (and also Basel)