Week 18: Stay Still and Think

Best of what I read recently

On conifers vs angiosperm trees and their strategy of growth. From Dao of Capital. It blew my mind. I’m writing a piece on this.

What makes me wake up enthusiastic lately? What can I do this month around this?

  • Seeing my VO2 Max going up. Very slowly. Training diligently has a second order effect. It’s like sunk cost where I eat whatever I want, but 1 meal a day and no excess sugar. Train hard, eat whatever I like.
  • Reading old, deep, thorough books.
  • Tranquility. Stay Still and Think. Thinking sessions where I sit for 2-3 hours and ask my self questions, think about them and write my answers. Normally with a cup of coffee and a bottle of water.
  • Writing. I’m enjoying the research part and “write to think” style of long-form writing I’m doing lately.
  • Walking. Long walks under the sun.

Best of what I watched

A style of Man’s Search for Meaning from the Arab Palestinian Humam Yehya.

Something I’m failing at.

  • Early sleep, early rise. It feels like cheating. Though I’m yet to get the owl in me to sleep early and rise early.
  • Eating early and being light going to bed. For years, I’m eating 1 meal a day. And it’s usually after I finish work and a gym session at around 8. This makes going to bed with a big ball in my stomach really annoying sometimes. Still need to fix this. Will write about this when I do.

Something that surprised me

I never knew such thing exists..

Something that changed my mind

  • Being stubborn from Nassim Taleb (NNT.) A blog to follow.
  • Getting advice from experts from NNT. A blog to follow. A good thing I did in the last couple of years is never to believe anything without doing my own research around it.

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