Should you do yoga?🧘♂️
Yes, especially if you lift weights
How often?⏱️
As often as you can, start small but try and make it into a daily habit
What yoga routine?🤸♂️
Whichever one you can do, it'll change over time
What do I do?
Here's my entire routine:
2 stories to drive this point home
1. In 2021 I had a chat with one of my old high school friends from India, she moved to London to study & said
"So yeah going to finish my degree. Not a fan of London so probably not gonna live her but I'll work for a while, and then get a
@eigenrobot
Similar:
1. A Swede once they've said goodbye won't talk to a person.
Let's say you say goodbye but you don't leave for like 10-20 mins cause something came up, you don't interact anymore to the person you said bye too.
There's no "bye again" lol. You're literally 5 meters
Ruta 40:
- Longest Ruta in Argentina 🇦🇷
- From Cabo Vírgenes, Santa Cruz to the border with Bolivia in the city of La Quiaca, in Jujuy: 5194 km.
- Crosses 21 national parks & 27 mountain passes.
- Highest route in the world outside of the Himalayas (5000m+ in Salta).
@eigenrobot
Should have made the disclaimer that:
1. The younger the person the less it's true.
2. The more in the city the less it's true
3. The more south the less it's true.
Cause talking about behavior in Stockholm is light-years away from up north.
There's a perspective of "I need to do this" then "I'll do what I actually want"
Nah, just do what you actually want now
This 6 year old video below is smarter than everyone that works at every fang start up
Just watch it & go remote
A similar related experiment that I make my friends do
"What would you do today if you had a $1m in your bank account, infinite time and no one to answer to?"
Take the question 100% seriously.
Because if you do, you just might do it all in the next 5 years
@levelsio
Also most Europeans don't understand scale
Ie. If it costs $100k to comply with some rule a cafe chain might only have to pay $100k for 50 cafes (1% of revenue)
While a single indi cafe might have to pay the same $100k and it ends up being 10% of revenue.
And then they wonder
The low-protein people use dexa scans to tell you that you don't lose muscle mass
The high-protein people just take selfies for a decade
That tells you everything you need to know.
Levels can't say this so I will
Stop blaming your skin color, your passport, or any other bullshit.
You don't have to first 'put in your dues' because you weren't born in a first world country.
The idea that it's harder for you cause of your culture and upbringing is
Perspectives that are obvious:
"Most people don't have experience"
What people think is 20 years experience is usually just 20x experience of 1 year.
Best summed up by a 'tech savvy' person who can build a PC but not an app.
Senior devs are so afraid to quit jobs for a
@eigenrobot
Found this old wallpaper from the early-1800s in a friends abandoned house.
It has arsenic and some of the women that slept in this room died in their 30s.
Almost looks like it's people sharing a meal, almost, maybe even 200 years ago the idea of sharing a meal was too extreme.
People wait for the system to change, instead of just jumping ship, burning the old ship and entering a new world.
My best example is degree, being someone who dropped out of college at 18, it’s simple “companies that care about degree don’t matter”
@carmenleelau
Combine these two ideas and you’re actually not that far off.
Most ‘issues’ are the straw the broke the camels back. Lots of accumulated issues, but if you remove the straw (deficiencies, more activity) it’s no longer ‘horrible/sick’ anymore
And Asians in quite a few things
Similarlty if you want to be remote, it’s easy if you just say “companies not 100% remote don’t matter”
burn the ships, irrelevant for your life. Just as degree companies
It’s that simple, just ignore the things in your life that doesn’t matter even if it’s the majority
Secondary
- walk more, movement poverty is a thing
- sleep more, you're sleep deprived don't even debate that
- you're magnesium deficient, supplement yesterday
Day 3: something clicked
Snowboarding went from trying to slow ride a bicycle to normal ride
Feel less than 10 times over a 2.5 hour sessions (vs 10 times every 20 minutes on day 2)
Also once I got the normal snowboarding technique, all my surfing movements carried over
Bryan Johnson did an experiment with alcohol a long time ago that shared an idea that stuck in my head for a long time.
His old company a decade or more ago built brain scans for people that maps out cognitive function or motor functions
Idk the details completely
And then
@levelsio
Bought premium cause I thought I would actually ‘stick to a niche’ and build an audience
Said fuck that, too boring, going just ape shit notes crazy instead.
I actually had a friend start doing SaaS sales recently
He closed a bunch of 5 figure deals, he believed that it wasn't good cause he didn't have a system
It just happened
He said "it's like sailing at sea, without a destination. What if you get lost"
"But you've done this
at the beginning of any endeavor, you typically have limited resources, low bandwidth, provisional low-res understandings, high switching costs, etc etc. and the only thing you should really optimize for when starting is to do whatever it takes to make you wanna go again
@PradyuPrasad
A honest answer would probably be replacing someone higher up making 10x their salary to improve profit margins for the organization as a while
Tough read probably for many, but pretty accurate:
Waiting for your corporate overloads to let you work from Spain is like waiting for Mumbai to have the air quality of Oslo
You’ll learn to accept “not that bad”
Also on the other side of that
You'll probably realize the things you value the most isn't monetary based.
But don't say "money doesn't buy happiness" from a place of scarcity, do it from a place of 'been there, done that'
@levelsio
Indians play an infinite regressive game of "that's not real India"
I even found a version of it in Salman Rushdie's book from 1980s
So any good pictures of a city are like sharing pics of La Condesa for CDMX "not real Mexico City"
So settle for public grounds & temples
Not 100% related but relevant here so I'll share
A friend was talking about an abundance in relationships a few years ago. About how he 'desired' so much and how things are never enough for him.
He asked "will things ever be enough"
I asked him a simple question, "when was the
Storytime 📖
The year was 2015, I was 17 years old and competing in a powerlifting competition
This was in the second largest city in Goa and being typical India the event had a politician as a special guest.
He was late, surprise surprise. And so we all had to wait for the
I think biggest benefit of getting ripped is your brain gets ripped too and you just feel great all the time
Which attracts great people even more than a body ever could
Body helps too though
Eg: Burn the ships (quote)
Once a fact is obvious (18 year olds don’t need to go to college) any conversation with people who don’t find it obvious is a waste of time
Espcially as you’re working on making it a reality, have the convo a decade later
Had a conversation that made me remember that technically on paper I never finished "dropping out of college"
Story time:
It was 2016, I was 18 and in the second semester of college had just started.
After lying to my parents twice and going on 2 backpacking trips, I decided
Fun fact: it probably takes you less than 6 years of just doing to obvious things to let go of all the baggage that comes with being born Indian
Walk - Min 2000km a year, ideal 3000km
Lift - min 3x a week
Ruck & play a sport
High protein meals
No snacks
The hair trigger sensitivity of Indians and protein intake is one those absurd online phenomenon that must be experienced to be believed
You could post about it every day, and every time they will make it go viral and descend into hysterical screeching and threats
Receipts from 5 years ago
Back then "Indian passport" -> just travel
You think any of the people you waited have less fear today??
Nah, just shifted goalposts complaining about cost of living or inflation or whatever
You'll always find an excuse
So yeah, pick the goal you want eg. Indihacker chill lifestyle over Fang
Say “Everything else is irrelevant”
and uk what? It becomes irrelevant for your entire life
If you’re hippie, even call it manifestation if you like
@visakanv
One of the last times I had a real panic attack and could not sleep at night was the night I turned 18
I remember thinking I was an adult under the law now so I couldn’t use “forced to” as an excuse (to myself) anymore.
And I would go nowhere if I didn’t stop listening to the
@liminal_warmth
Exercise (I recently gained 15kg of muscle and my ‘pay attention to every person like I’m a secret agent’ disappeared)
Better sleep
Trial of no internet for a week or two, and then come back (YouTube thumbnails felt as vivid as a psychedelic images after 2 weeks no devices)
Yoga
Low protein (high fat) is a trend I seeing getting popular over the next years.
It may work for extremely obese folks but harmful for 'normal' people
Basically when you have a lot of fat, your body works differently
My hope is that the low-protein people actually realize this
Jimmy Carr is actually quite an underrated thinker
Every year he goes on a tour of US podcasts and every year I'm surprised as to the caliber of books and ideas he's obviously read
Had a conversation that made me remember that technically on paper I never finished "dropping out of college"
Story time:
It was 2016, I was 18 and in the second semester of college had just started.
After lying to my parents twice and going on 2 backpacking trips, I decided
Said another way
People will just hook up & wonder why they're lonely but believe they have an abundant life
Fatfire people will accumulate $$ never take a year off & wonder why they feel insecure
Both say 'number go up' lol
These two ideas are more similar than people think
Here's the specific ways college makes people stupider
- exams create a mentality of you only need to perform on this single day, it makes or breaks your life and you don't get second chance.
Real world is you have 100s of chances for everything. You fail and try again and
8 years ago when I dropped out of college I used to say it doesn't have upsides
Today I'm close to saying that college is actually harmful even without debt in making people cowards of the real world & getting stuck optimizing opinions
College makes most people stupider
@visakanv
I've always had a subtle social anxiety
One of the first things I did to combat it at 18 was walking down the streets of giving away fliers, was a charity cause was a 'good cause' but I really did it for the exposure therapy
@sweatystartup
@GoSunriseCEO
@DrBrettOsborn
Watched the video
And even wrote about it.
Actions dictate what you learn from it
I deadlifted 4x my bodyweight when I was 17.
Today I know to be safer and not to push myself in my 30s and not deadlift more than 2x
The lesson isn't don't deadlift.
This is also where your past action will dictate your conclusions:
For example, Peter Attia did a good podcast on lower back pain.
If you've never deadlifted your conclusion is “boo deadlift bad, never deadlift”
My conclusion was “it makes 0 sense for someone not competing for
@visakanv
Mentioned a similar thing yesterday
"You don't need to be smart to progress, you need to be smarter in the future to progress further."
Basically workout first, then get smart about working out.
Just did the calculation cause I have 2 fat % scans a year apart.
But based on the calculations here’s how much lean muscle mass I gain on average over a year.
June 21-22: 0.5kg/month (newbie gains, no good routines, intermittent fasting)
June 22-23: 0.5kg/month (gym almost
@visakanv
The mistake in the original tweet can also be the assumption that getting your shit together is something you do once aka benchmarking to normal.
Instead of realizing that life is always getting your shit together lol
Have to fight entropy and then you die.
@visakanv
Did you ever hear the theory of why “hot girls are crazy” is not a meme?
Think Chris Williamson had a podcast on it, but along the lines of “it takes so little to make a man give up everything he worked decades for” “desensitized to confirmation” basically a form of alienation
8 years ago I dropped out of college and told everyone I know to do the same
I believed that it was obvious that 18 year old Indians should just start working online.
I never succeeded in getting people to dropout but as the years past, I just optimized my life and traveled the
@levelsio
Personally don't ever think it'll be the highest status game in town
But here's how we can make it higher:
Initially it's the $$$ but after you've made people $$ show the indi hacking life allows for freedom.
Show that a Chad-Zuck doesn't need a billion:
- get everyone
One of my definitely toxic trait is that I will never allow people to get away with "just in case" excuses
For example: in 2021 a friend of mine came from India to Serbia
He was vaccinated and the covid rules of Serbia was Vaccine OR PCR test.
I entered with just a PCR test.
I always think back to 2021 cause your actions created your reality.
This was one of Indians largest travel bloggers conclusion at the end of the pandemic. (She in fact had more travel history and more infinity stones *G7 visas* than me)
Vs mine
Laos is quite nice!
If you want a break from the ‘hustle’ of Vietnam or Thailand. Get a bike and go for a ride.
Also Laos has never recovered to pre-Covid tourist levels just like many other south Asian countries.
Pics from 2017
Long term travel is a good lesson in
“Other people’s biased opinion is your opportunity (eg. lower rent)”
Have multiple versions of this from living in Vietnam in 2016 to my sister thinking I was in Syria when I said Serbia for half a decade.
It's actually incredible how much of consumer tech has plateaued
My noise cancelling headphones are 5 years old & are still close to being the best in the world
Today:
XM4 = XM3 +5% better but not by much
XM5 is actually worse than both
Only changed my pads once for $20
One great side effect of this is getting rid of 'reasonable'
Being reasonable isn't a virtue
Dream big -> then add reasonability on top of the big dreams
Don't every start off with reasonability, you'll never ever dream big if you do.
Here's an example from my own life:
When
A similar related experiment that I make my friends do
"What would you do today if you had a $1m in your bank account, infinite time and no one to answer to?"
Take the question 100% seriously.
Because if you do, you just might do it all in the next 5 years
It works in the developed world too
Young swedes who used to be very comfortable being in a sauna naked are now become more self conscious due to the Americanization of the culture.
Tirana became one of the most "the sidewalk is my runway" city in the past 6 years due to
I get along really well with working class people and old money people
Rarely middle class
Realized today something about this
1. A working class person is completely fine saying that a job is a job.
Basically, "my work doesn't give me meaning, it's just my work. The family
“Fuck them kids”
Ik it’s a joke but it’s true
Half my conversations with activists make it clear that they argue about climate change, because they’re not smart enough to hold a conversation with someone that has built energy infrastructure
Go further. Say fuck’em
Next activity and calories:
The above is based on calorie replacement going from the junky lifestyle everyone leads
To a high protein lifestyle initially and then just an overall balanced lifestyle.
This second part of about making your calorie capacity higher.
Think of it
2019: yellow fever vaccine? Of course I’m in the Colombian jungle
2021: Covid vaccine? Of course not I’m in my 20s and healthy. Fuck you, I’ll travel the world while you whine.
2023: rabies vaccine (wife) after a dog bit her? Of course.
‘Nuance is the enemy of engagement’
@d_feldman
Marginal utility
But a better way to understand it is that, all the atmosphere in the air is "worth" more than the entire earth gdp. But isn't "valued" as such. Cause it's abundant.
So abundance of a resources with time basically makes it a commodity. Doesn't make 'gdp' go up
@visakanv
Personally created a ‘safety valve’ wrt life and work around this.
Said “my 20s are for learning and having fun, I’ll build something serious in my 30s” a decade ago, to never ever take work too seriously.
Work, but only in so far as it allows me to do what I really want
In October 2021 I had a friend who was stuck for most of the pandemic in Vietnam
He spent the whole of 2020 and 2021 working hard, grew a 50 person company.
I invited him to Serbia and we visited Tara National Park for like 2 weeks.
It was the first time in his life that he
It's actually crazy the more questions you ask about subjects the more you see how many emperors have no quote
- most people that talk about anti fragile have only read a passage about it
- half the podcasters that interview people only ever watch the first episode of their tv
April before/after with month in review:
Gym sessions: 22
Yoga: 30ish
Running: 5
Walking/Sleep: Stopped tracking
Work time: flat
Screen time: slightly up
March before/after with month in review:
Gym sessions: 21
Yoga: 27
Running: 9 (42km)
Walking: 14.5k daily steps
Sleep: 8.5 hours on average
Work time: Up especially during the last week.
Screen time: flat
This felt worth raising awareness of:
2025 will be the first year in history of the world that global graduate unemployment is higher than Non-graduate unemployment.
It already flipped in India & China.
USA, UK, Can, Aus is next and then EU
There's a funnier version to this
In India every system is always trying to trick you
So, banks are the muthal fund platforms so here's how it works with commission
1. Using a normal financial advisor= 2% to financial advisor
2. Clicking invest in existing bank account = 2%
Here's an example of how economics can improve by 2% every year
The muthal fund industry in India is $65B (USD) in size
The majority of that is invested through agents that take a 2% cut.
For simplicity sake the mutual fund vs index Etf argument of the 2000s in the US is
Funny story:
Jack was with Ben (Kneeovertoes guy) in Costa Rica when a guy came up to them and said “hi can I get a picture?” and asked if he could get a picture with Ben. He had no idea who Jack was.
And what made the story even funnier was that a few weeks earlier Jack was
2014 - Jack when first hearing about woke and thinking "nice makes sense"
2020 - Jack after 7 years of having helped create the woke monster and it terrorizing him and his company
2024 - Jack after Elon buys Twitter and he's finally over it
A thread on why you should eat more and how to actually go about doing that:
Here are the immediate benefits you’ll notice if you do the things I share
- more jacked
- better recovering
- more energy
I’m literally a poster boy for this cause i probably doubled my calories
A scary amount of life comes down to saying statements like
"There's no such thing as a smart (on health) 40 year old obese person"
And realizing what's stopping you or everyone else from saying it out loud.
A 20 year old being overweight can be outside their control, but you
@imperialauditor
Reverse of "The straw that broke the camels back"
Remove the straw and the person feels sooo much better. And sadly imo stops at the straw
2020 remote work wasn't real remote work.
This is why your friends who work at Facebook are back in the office while my friends that work at Automattic are nearly a decade of travel
Instead of fighting RTO you should've used the good times to quit your 'fake' remote job for a
@visakanv
Agreed on this
My friend who can tell me the scientific names of my side vs back delts, has neither
Imbalanced physique ain’t a think I ever cared about
No idea how I thought it was a good idea to take a white car on a 14,000km road trip. But it was 2021, washing the car was the last thing I was thinking about
@levelsio
My next cross atlantic flight I'm probably able to score biz tickets for only $200 more than economy 🤯
Only one part of the leg, and Lufthansa not middle East but 18 hours flight just went from sucking ass to being okay
One of my superpowers is listening to conversations where I understand only 20%.
And always doing this. Upping the level so this is always the case.
I highly recommend this, reduce your tolerance for how much % of a conversation has to be legible for you to listen to it
When can you stop fighting something and let it go?
I was walking through Belgrade in the summer of 2018, we walked passed the church, it was the largest Orthodox Church in the world so my girlfriend (now-wife) asked if we could go in.
I went on a 20 minute rant on how the
In November 2022 I was in Delhi.
I bought my yoga mat and was doing yoga on the roof top of the hotel early with the sunrise.
A random Indian in his 40s staying at the hotel passed me on the way to his room. He had the typical Indian body with a big tummy.
He passed me and
@T3MaxxiAlt
Tbh anyone in fitness for 5 years+ admits it
It's kinda like only the 6 months people that won't.
But the issue is often low bandwidth (social media) and default assumption (aka vegetarian= auto good)
Biggest issue common with both keto and vegans are both jump on the diet by
A thread on why you should eat more and how to actually go about doing that:
Here are the immediate benefits you’ll notice if you do the things I share
- more jacked
- better recovering
- more energy
I’m literally a poster boy for this cause i probably doubled my calories
Don't just imagine or larp about a pro natalistic, pro work to live world
They have always existed, especially in Latam and the Balkans.
It's more normal than you think;
Eg. Bogota shuts down almost all the roads for cars every Sunday and only bicycles are allowed
Childhood Obesity in Vietnam jumped from 10% to 20% in 10 years.
If you’re still stuck in the “OMG Asia made me lose weight” bubble, you really need to pump those numbers (your understanding of health) up.
Your pov is relatively comparing 2 sinking ships.
You can notice the "not that bad" perspective a lot on the internet
For example some will ticket the price of something like Disneyland and say
"Adjust for inflation" (which they use cpi) the Disneyland ticket should be $xx but the cost is $xxx
And then they'll do this 100x
My annoyance with MMT'ers come down to the following
1. It an observation of how the system is built today, just as the dollar milkshake theory it.
Both are right in describing the system as it today. Basically "plumbing"
Dollar milkshake theory: system always have demand for
@visakanv
lol reminded me of this
Most people have a fake-version of Chesterton fence around this tho.
Where it’s not about understanding how something works, but rather being able to convince people of the understanding.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
But so is persistence.
And from the outside it's hard to tell the difference