Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 02/01/25

Updated: Mon, 02/03/25

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🥩 What is the future of food:

The diet of the future is thousands of years old.

If you compress 300,000 years of Homo sapiens' diet history into the 2025 calendar year...

You still have another 10 months of hunting and gathering before agriculture starts.

The modern diet is 75%+ foods that weren't eaten for 97% of human history.

P.S.

It's a myth that you can’t absorb more than 20 to 30 grams of protein per meal. (r)

A big steak (protein) doesn't just turn into cake (sugar).

💤 How to fix your sleep:

How to fix your sleep:

• Lips sealed, tongue on palate, nasal breathing

• Cool, dark, quiet room

• No food or drink before bed (especially alcohol)

• No caffeine in the p.m.

• Morning sunlight

• Exercise

• Avoid blue light at night

• Routine bedtime

• To-do's on paper and out of your head

🤖 Is AI coming for your job:

Last weekend I tried a new AI model called Deepseek.

Since I've been using as many AI tools as I can (2024 Challenge), I immediately knew this was going to be the talk of the week.

It was really good. It was fast. It was free.

(...and is was out of China...and fyi, they collect your IP, keystroke patterns, device info, etc...I wouldn't rush to have it help you organize your finances)

They discovered a new way to train the model. What big tech companies are spending billions on, they did for $5.5M, by creating a model that can organically grow intelligence...

The difference is akin to reading a book on how to ride a bike versus learning to ride a bike by trying, falling, and trying again until you get it.

People are wondering, "is it sentient?"

My amateur read of the situation is that novel training methods will drop the costs of the compute layer. As the base layer of LLMs gets cheaper and commoditized, more apps and agents can and will be built on top.

Is it coming for all our jobs?

I don’t want to get a reputation for reactivity or hyperbolic statements...but what just happened in the AI world changed the development trajectory of humanity.

💡How to feel better:

I don't go out much. But I'm going to work on it.

Last weekend I went out with some gym friends. Stereotypical boys night out.

Though I didn't drink, it felt good just to get out. I know this intuitively and I know it's also backed by science. Friendships activate neurological pathways that reduce stress (and blood pressure) and boost mood (and immune function).