I went from 217->173 and have stayed in that range for 4 years. I’m 5’10” / M / 43years

Short answer: high protein / adequate fat keto with skipping breakfast (aka 16:8 intermittent fasting)

I tried it for weightloss, and immediately had health benefits within 36 hours of switching over. I’m never going back. I feel 10 years younger. Brain fog lifted, joint pain gone, more energy to move and do things, more patience and clarity at work and home. Hunger is a signal now and I’m never hangry.

It’s also just not that hard. I eat a ton of awesome meals full of chicken and roasted veg, bbq meats I smoke, steaks, omelets, huge salads. Life is good and I feel good.

“We are stardust” - Joni Mitchell

You made it 45 seconds longer than I did. Still waiting for my hair to stop standing on end.

It’s a bit of a tossup on this one. Main characters don’t die, but Tasha JUST had. Picard and Riker probably had plot armor, but the annoyingly combative older Dr Crusher stand in? It seemed plausible enough.

I remember being freaked out by the realization that I was going to grow old. Like really old, someday. That episode stuck with me for that reason.

However, I don’t remember being concerned because Pulaski’s condition was wrapped up in the “solve” of the episode. If she died it would all have been for naught, and there were so many breadcrumbs in the episode pointing to the super-kids as the problem. Most of the episode is just waiting for them to get on with the solution and dragging out the nail biter as long as they can.

Ah. Wow. Didn’t catch that previously. Agreed

Call it the SuperSwitch to mimic the nes -> supernes era. No new gimmick, just double the specs and ride the wave of portable consoles being “good enough”. Rival the steam deck and all the clones coming, with Nintendo’s amazing first party titles and milk the next 5-7 years

No joke. “Sing” It’s this silly kids cover song movie, but it ends up having a wonderful consistent optimism and a brilliant payoff. It’s not an improbable massive “pulled it off” win, it’s surviving through failure and loving the act of making art so much that you keep doing it anyway. It’s joyful and a masterclass in writing a classic story arc without torturing your characters and your audience to get there.

Change the channels for an hour or two

I used macs for like 15 years before I realized I could double click the top bar of a window to maximize but not full screen it.

Also, try rectangle! Wonderful window tiling and it’s open source. I wouldn’t use a Mac without it

In my personal opinion, it’s under-hyped. The average person has maybe heard about it on the news but not yet tried it. The models we have show the spark of wit, but are clearly limited. The news cycle moves on.

Even still, some huge changes are coming.

My reasoning is this - in David Epstein’s book “Range” he outlines how and why generalists thrive and why specialization has hurt progress. In narrow fields, specialization gives an advantage, but in complex fields, generalists or people from other disciplines can often see novel approaches and cause leaps ahead in the state of the art. There are countless examples of this in practice, and as technology has progressed, most fields are now complex.

Today, in every university, in every lab, there are smart, specialized people using ChatGPT to riff on ideas, to think about how their problem has been addressed in other industries, and to bring outsider knowledge to bear on their work. I have a strong expectation that this will lead to a distinct acceleration of progress. Conversely, an all-knowing oracle can assist a generalist in becoming conversant in a specialization enough to make meaningful contributions. A chat model is a patient and egoless teacher.

It’s a human progress accelerant. And that’s with the models we have today. With next generation models specialized behind corporate walls with fine tuning on all of their private research, or open source models tuned to specific topics and domains, the utility will only increase. Even for smaller companies, combining ChatGPT with a vector database of their docs, customer support chats, etc will give their rank and file employees better tools to work with

Simply put, what we have today can make average people better at their jobs, and gifted people even more extraordinary.

A few!

First, keto. Not for the weightloss (although that happened, 45 lbs down and holding there 4 years in), but for the incredible way it made me feel. All my back and knee pain was gone, brain fog cleared, energy levels shot up, high blood pressure episodes went away. It was amazing

Second, electrolytes. Especially on keto but really so many folks are dehydrated and water alone doesn’t always help. It’s super cheap to make your own electrolyte powder with a 2:1 mix of Natural Calm magnesium and Morton’s lite salt (sodium and potassium). Put a teaspoon in a big glass of water with mio lemonade and it will fix headaches, hunger crankiness, and hangovers.

Third, drinking. I took a break and never went back. It was adding nothing to my life, and I’m so glad to be clear of it.

Fourth, taurine supplements. Im in my early forties and this popped my energy back up - I no longer feel wiped and low energy after a day of work/kids. I have time and vigor for projects or whatever else strikes me. It’s also been studied as a longevity enhancement and increases both healthspan and lifespan in test animals. It’s an amino acid we produce less of as we age, and supplementing it helped me.

Cringlebert fishteabuns?

I highly recommend checking out the Zelda and Chill trilogy - https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoupLnv0rZ6yQYLT-H-lDSkoamYZ_-HzG&feature=share

I’d be down for a music creation community! I mostly make chiptune/video game music, but I’ve got a background in composition and musical theater, and I’m working on a pop song of all things currently :)

https://ericskiff.com/music