Roundup: Habits of Millionaires, Fat Loss Myths, and Selling Everything

‘Weekly’ Media Roundup (Sep 26th – Oct 25th)

Time to kick this one out the door. There’s some good stuff sitting in my queue, but it will have to wait for the next one.

Fun

• Gavin Sheridan – Elon Musk’s sleight of hand
  • Self driving cars: 5 years. Note to self.
• Tink – Losing Sight
  • A personal account of what it’s like to lose your vision.

Decluttering

• Need/Want – Sell Everything
  • What moving to another country and starting over can teach you about stuff
• Business Insider – A 23-year-old Google employee lives in a truck in the company’s parking lot and saves 90% of his income
  • New decluttering goal? I wonder how feasible it would be in my city.

Personal Improvement

• Mark Manson – The Most Important Question of Your Life
  • Hint: It’s not “What are your goals in life?”

Financial/Career

Podcasts:

• James Altucher – Andy Weir – The Martian – How to go from Self Published to Six Figures
  • This is the dream story: work on your novel in your spare time, self publish it, and become ridiculously successful. Very inspiring.

Articles:

• Peter Seibel – Let 1000 Flowers Bloom. Then Rip 999 of Them Out By the Roots.
  • As an engineering org grows larger, it pays to have a team dedicated to tooling. With graphs!
• NY Daily News –Here’s how one New Yorker ditched his workaholic life for a two-day week — and didn’t go broke
  • If this guy can do it in NY, maybe you can do it yourself?
• James Altucher – The 20 Habits of Eventual Millionaires
  • Not actually 20, but Altucher pushes my buttons.

Health

Podcasts:

• Sigma Nutrition – Mike Sweeney, RD – Fat Loss Myths, Gut Health, Carbs & Contest Prep
  
  • Most of what you’ve heard about diet is just wrong – meal frequency, timing, etc.

Articles:

• Intensive Dietary Management – The Proof is in the Pudding – More Turds in the PunchBowl
  • We’ve been doing diet wrong for decades. Let’s learn from our mistakes.
• Sigma Nutrition – How Do You Avoid Overeating Without Counting Calories?
  • Lots of info. I learned that some foods are higher in satiety than others, meaning you feel full longer.

Roundup: Meddling with Our Genes, Fecal Transplants, and Being More Confident

Weekly Media Roundup (June 13 – 19)

I love a good long drive – lots of time to listen to podcasts! I got sucked in this week – hope you find something interesting.

Fun

Books:

• Kij Johnson – “The Man Who Bridged the Mist”
  • Touching fantasy novella in The Year’s Best Science Fiction

Podcasts:

• RadioLab – Antibodies Part 1: CRISPR
  • When we’re able to modify our genes, should we? Where is the line between reducing possibilities of Alzheimer’s and making ourselves taller?
• TED Radio Hour – The Act of Listening
  • The StoryCorps App, hearing even when you’re deaf, and more. Fascinating
• Freakonomics – Should We Really Behave Like Economists Say We Do?
  • Follow someone as they try to live as an economically perfect human through dating, giving to street musicians, and more

Health

Books:

• David D Burns – Feeling Good
  • I’ve mentioned this one before, but this is a great one for overcoming depression using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I read chapters on overcoming depression due to tragedy and sickness, as well as getting to the root of the depression.

Podcasts:

• Fat-Burning Man – Dr. Perlmutter: Brain Maker, Fecal Transplants, and How to Heal Your Gut with Real Food
  • Author of Grain Brain and Brain Maker discusses how important your gut biome is to your overall health, and how it can even cause obesity and mental disorders

Career/Financial

Articles:

• Quora – What are the characteristics of a bad software engineer?
  • I think there’s a little of this in all of us

Relationships

Articles:

• The New York Times (Aziz Ansari) – How to Make Online Dating Work
  • Actually go out on dates!
  • The 3 questions that matter (according to OkCupid): “Do you like horror movies?” “Have you ever traveled around another country alone?” and “Wouldn’t it be fun to chuck it all and go live on a sailboat?”

Personal Improvement

Books:

• Napoleon Hill – Think and Grow Rich
  • I finished this book this week, and was highly impressed. Really interesting stuff about the power of mastermind groups and overcoming fear. It falters a bit when the author starts to describe his belief in telepathy, but this is one to come back to again. Definitely pick up the physical book, because there are a lot of lists.

Podcasts:

• Menprovement – How to Develop True Core Confidence, Be Authentic, And Live Your Inner Truth
  • I’ve heard this before, but when you lie (even about small things), you are giving in to the belief that your true thoughts are not good enough. Listen to this again.
  • This is episode one of Endless Confidence, part of the Menprovement Academy. Sign up.
• Listen Money Matters – Finding Your Productivity Sweet Spot
  • Discover your productivity archetype: are you most creative with a deadline, or are you able to be steadily productive?
  • Recommend Gretchen Rubin’s book, Better Than Before

Articles:

• James Clear – The Power of Less: I Removed Every Inessential Thing From My Website and Here’s What Happened
  • Is it ironic that I found this article about eliminating distractions among the 20 tabs I have open?
• Zen Habits – Monk Mind: How to Increase Your Focus
  • Ack! Disable your internet!?!? The biggest way to increase your focus is to reduce distractions.
  • I like the ‘small steps’ approach to building focus.
• Lifehack – How Can I Improve My Focus?
  • Some obvious, like meditation, but some not so obvious, like wearing light clothes. Quick read.