Right now I naturally want to eat ~2600 calories/day. This will be a ~2-4 month experiment with an eye towards learning more about what it would take to get back to 15% bodyfat - if and when I achieve that, maintenance would be much easier to do naturally I think.
4. I bought retatrutide from Peptide Partners, which a friend recommended. I'll microdose it (dunno how much yet) and tweak my dose every week until I find the minimal dose where I feel satisfied from just eating my meal prep food and don't want to snack beyond that.
3. I realized that even though I've been doing my own meal prep every week for the last 5 months, I consistently procrastinate by 1-3 days before actually setting aside 2 hours to cook and clean, so this week I hired a helper from Care .com to come on Mondays for $60-90/week.
2. I workshopped a meal prep plan with Claude that's 2150 calories/day (roughly a 300cal/day deficit, so 1lb loss every 10 days), and 220g protein/day (which is close enough to 1g per lb bodyweight/day to gain muscle).
I track workouts with the Hevy app for my Apple Watch. Over the last 6 weeks I've only worked out 53% as much as I wanted to 😬 but I am still getting stronger.
1. This week I reduced all my workout volume by 38% (I went from 16 total working sets to 10) because 16 sets took me an average of 40m and so I kept skipping them. Now they should take 25m, which hopefully means I will consistently do them 4x/week, even when I'm feeling lazy.
I've been spending the last 6 months getting my health on autopilot by hiring a cook from Care .com to help with meal prep and tweaking my workouts and peptides mix.
A few friends have asked for more details so here's a thread of where I'm at.
A human being should be able to commit to a bit, disagree diplomatically, ask the right question, be a shoulder to cry on, find the grace to forgive, comfort the anxious, transcend self-concern, soothe an aching heart, and love without fear. Specialization is for insects.
This dude just ran an experiment where police worked together with a mobile primary care center on 6th St in SOMA. And then they documented their learnings after 30 days. This is what state capacity looks like. SF is headed in a good direction.
x.com/kunalmodi/st...
(It's not public, sorry, it's just a dumb little script built into a pile of other utilities I keep)
Results are pasted underneath the original line. Here's how they look:
Here's a neat little Obsidian utility I built for helping me think clearly.
Type `/exa`, and it'll ask @ExaAILabs for a few articles arguing one side, and a few articles arguing the other side.
Whoa, cool! Post more about it when you can.
My grandpa asked "Are there bad monks?" and I said yes, of course, awakening doesn't automatically heal your dysfunctional patterns. His reply was "Would you say one of these bad monks was Hitler?" which just goes to show that you can't anticipate every objection.
I went from 0 meditation in 2023 to 50 days of retreat in 2024. Over the break I wrote up what I learned: jasonbenn.com/tools-for-th...
idle thought... perhaps in the same way that we ought to use AIs to systematically upgrade the security of codebases,
we could use AI to comprehensively upgrade the alignment of the proxy metrics we're optimizing?
aligned AIs as the meta-optimizers?
AI can turbocharge any optimizer. perhaps it'll reveal a bunch of these hidden alignment problems
but it also makes it easier to define better proxies
"optimization disease": when you maximize a proxy, it eventually becomes problematic
it's worse the more powerful your optimizer is
prob every metric is its own little instance of the alignment problem, it's just that most aren't being optimized hard enough to be problematic
this morning i was noodling on proxies for productivity, and it's remarkable how hard it is to design a measure that won't distort my behavior
"screenshot my screen 1x/min and compare it to my next todo" but what if a colleague taps my shoulder? what if i'm AFK? etc etc
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #15, jason @jasonbenn.com, joined on Nov 23, 2022"
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #15!
(Wait, really? That seems... wrong?)
[me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a deserted island for a year] it was crazy
[friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?
rumor has it if you refresh the waiting screen 5 times they let you in. (for real, try it)
You’re posted up in a hunting blind waiting for a buck. You see this guy, and focus your scope. Suddenly your eye is caught by movement in the ferns between his antlers. It’s… a tiny gnome? The little man in a pointed hat waves his hands in alarm. Wdyd?
Is this what happens when you scroll too much and don’t scoot?
Scene is a perfect name 👌
Eh I’m still having a great time
- lol I got notified that I retweeted my own tweet
This is also how I think Scenes should work: the public tweets of the members of the scene, optionally filtered by organizers using natural language.
Twitter Communities are terrible, nobody posts to them, and I hope Bluesky doesn’t repeat the mistake!
This is also how I think Scenes should work: the public tweets of the members of the scene, optionally filtered by organizers using natural language.
Twitter Communities are terrible, nobody posts to them, and I hope Bluesky doesn’t repeat the mistake!
