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some tweets/videos/articles on the strategy of "doing more" https://t.co/Cv0DFVqven
i first came across this wild idea from @metaphorician https://t.co/NPw1sfdVOi and it was mindbending coming from a "rest days are important" pov!
After years of floundering, I think I'm finally getting it: You get energy by spending it. The fuel tank metaphor is completely misleading. The body supplies energy to meet demand. The tank *expands* if you use a lot of fuel. In other words, biology is fundamentally antifragile
next, @danielgross talked about it in a podcast about his book with @tylercowen https://t.co/X2CR04FQqs
i wrote a piece about it claiming that no, it's *volume* that's important, not energy unfortunately, since then i've just become more confused about it https://t.co/SqOn231Ky6
ofc the most legible formulation of this is @visakanv's "do 100 things" https://t.co/1lnnAmzEwJ
do not wait act “but I don’t know what to do” then do 100 random things examine how you feel after each thing at the end of it you will know what to do your uniqueness reveals itself through your actions, your choices not by waiting. waiting is not unique. do not wait act https://t.co/PJS7Ci6z7q
@ejames_c's chronicle of his 4-month judo experiment > what differentiates professional athletes from amateurs is that the pros train way harder, for longer, at a more regular frequency https://t.co/nSG3ZGtKty
the corresponding thread https://t.co/BkNVaZivHq
the linked video is also mindbending https://t.co/2zSGpx4YXc (talks about movement, introduces the notion of 'work capacity' or how much training you can recover to baseline from)
this is also standard startup advice, so for posterity i'm just gonna link @paulg's essay https://t.co/KdGuSSbrqN
@paulg ego depletion (ie we have limited willpower) does not replicate https://t.co/DWABdX0y9v
@paulg positive feedback loops: https://t.co/6sFTmgA71b
@paulg this probably counts too https://t.co/LL6GdXqtJe
if you’re a live player at this present moment in time, it’s often best to model the rest of the world, as in some sort of slow motion bullet time, in some ways practically stationary. You can make moves at beyond the sampling rate nyquist limit of almost all large instituitions. it will appear as magic! *beware witch trials ps: this is definitely inspired by Tenet and @jasonjoyride ‘s presentation on it. as a fun aside, if something is going faster than the nyquist limit, you do get aliasing, where things appear to run backwards if we’re in a simulation with some sort of limited frequency for certain things, some sort of updating limit, we will see aliasing at increasing frequency as things get faster 😉
@paulg https://t.co/piGS8fE5eH
You have 168 hours per week. For most, sleep takes 56 of those. A full time job is anyone 40. Food, grooming, exercise add another 18 if you’re reasonably efficient. Misc obligatory bullshit paperwork like taxes or errands, another 7. This leaves you with 47 hours!
@zrkrlc back in the early 2010s there were these australian dudes on YouTube going on about living a “high carb lifestyle”. They’d lift heavy and do long bike rides, play random sports, do a ton. At the time I was bought into the “cardio kills ur gainz” thing so i didn’t listen 🤦♂️
@uberstuber i heard very early on that olympic athletes consume up to 10k calories a day, which they all presumably burn likewise the missing part was the fact that this, too, can in principle be done by mere mortals, because we can learn how to expand our work capacity