Wednesday

A deeper dive into several pieces today. Diet, exercise, and hormones are interesting conversations, and it's about to get more interesting if we can control behaviors pharmaceutically. How to make friends, another interesting conversation, and how each stage in life comes with a new community variation. After all the deep thoughts, a quick highlight of new shows, and a look back at some OG social media with MySpace.

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As the saying goes, you can never be too rich or too thin and another interesting watch from Dr. Peter Attia in a clip from an interview with Joe Rogan, he talks about hormones and fat loss. This is a short 8-minute clip, but Attia talks about breaking down weight loss and hits on several interesting topics.

People don't want to lose weight, they want to lose fat. Depending on how much you need or want to lose, you can track the loss by looking at body weight. Once you get to your manageable weight, start tracking your body fat. Attia talks about separating weight from fat to get to his next topic, the size and number of fat cells. Attia details fat cells, and the key to this part of the discussion is how much fat cells are regulated by hormones. Both Attia and Rogan are on an advanced level when it comes to fitness and nutrition. Rogan is well-known in martial arts and MMA, and Attia has been an elite athlete. Rogan started the conversation the way most of us do, thinking self-discipline is the determining factor, Attia comes back with how often he sees patients and works with people who do all the right things in fitness and nutrition and cannot lose weight. 

One of the comments Attia makes is that he sees large cortisol levels in people who struggle to lose weight. Cortisol can be increased when you are under stress, turning your self-discipline into negative self-esteem and a circle of failure. Adding insult to injury, our hormone levels reduce as we age, reducing another fat cell-fighting agent in our bodies. This is especially true of women who have gone through menopause and lost all estrogen and testosterone. It just makes you want to go out and eat a giant cake.

The more you know and can experiment with, the better you can fight, or as Dr. Attia says, you are responsible for what you eat, but your body plays a bigger role in how what you eat changes you metabolically. 

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The last boss I worked for in the 90s recommended I read the book How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. As a young manager and a person who loves to work, I may have been too hard on the people I was supposed to be managing. I remember being confused and disappointed then; I mentioned he was my last boss…

I read that book reluctantly, and it didn't help me manage, but it definitely made me a better salesperson; if you can sell more, you hire other people to be nice to others. Influencing people is what you need to grow a business, but what about the "win friends" part? That is a little harder. After college, I moved around, transferred to different cities, and met new people. Most people I met after college were from work, and I usually had more than one job, increasing my opportunity to meet people and develop more friendships.

The next phase of life included kids and sports, and in a big stretch, I coached many of the teams my three boys played on. A whole new group of friends grew out of that phase of life, parents of the kids who played sports or activities with your kids. If you are lucky, you add new relationships and friendships to the old ones and expand that network. Lifelong friends you've had since your school days, friends from your various professional careers and workdays, neighborhood friends, and parents of your kid's friends, and then something happens…

The kids grow up and move on, jobs change, and the neighborhood shrinks. It might be time to find that book again, and while I dig through the boxes or add it to my Kindle, I can also check this article from MINDJOURNAL called:

Oh and by the way, that last boss… still friends to this day!

Launching a media business and writing newsletters and content leaves little time for watching movies and TV. Looking back at the list of shows I've watched over the last several months shows an interesting pattern. I've made it through the first three seasons of The Witcher (Netflix) two seasons of Foundations (Apple TV), and I’m now halfway through the 2nd season of The Wheel of Time (Amazon). Interesting, in part because I've never seen Lord of The Rings or Game of Thrones. Both series have a good mix of storytelling and interesting characters, tied up with make-believe worlds that my unconscious mind might be interested in since so much of my daylight time is spent on real people, news, and events.

That's what they all say, and if you have the time and enjoy world-building on your own, books are usually better. What happens if you didn't even know there was a book and you just watched the show or movie? Before you go there with the second season of The Wheel of Time, check out this article from Alex Lauer from InsideHook. He has read the books and is impressed with the second season. Lauer says the show differs from the books, but the differences enhance the show rather than detract from it.

Spencer Kornhaber wrote an article for The Atlantic, and he writes about MySpace and the subculture group called The Scene. A group of disaffected youth who expressed themselves through music and appearance. Many popular bands during this time (the mid-00s) were part of an alternative emo band mix. Think bands like Fall Out Boy, Dashboard Confessional, and Panic! At the Disco. Some of us Goth-Punks may have grown up and had kids. The difference between us and them is that MySpace started online, not outside – in the old days, punks and disaffected youth found each other outside and at concerts and events. The clicks were smaller, the angst the same, and you knew 'em when you saw ‘em. MySpace lets you post and highlight the bands and the attitudes that best describe who you are and where you want to be. MySpace is still alive; just under 7 million users visited the site in June 2023.

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