Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 06/21/25

Updated: Sat, 06/21/25

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🥩 What tracks:

If you chart relative brain size vs dietary quality across primates, a pattern emerges: bigger brains correlate with a higher-quality diet, humans being the extreme example.

FYI: "Quality" is a term used in nutritional ecology.

“Low quality” refers to the structural, fibrous parts of plants like leaves and stems.

"Moderate quality" refers to the reproductive parts of plants like fruits and seeds.

"High quality" refers to animal-sourced foods.

🧪 How to avoid pesticides:

Bad news:

Glyphosate is all over your food. It's the active ingredient in Roundup and linked with hormone disruption, oxidative stress, gut dysbiosis and is labeled a "probable human carcinogen." Here are the worst foods.

Good news:

Switching to all-organic foods drops urinary glyphosate levels over 70% in less than 1 week.(r)

Better News:

Glyphosate doesn't bioaccumulate in mammals and therefore if you eat a meat-based diet you'll have far less exposure than a plant-based diet.

🍉 What is low hanging fruit:

Nearly 50% of all added sugar is from sweetened drinks like soda and fruit juices.

Just switching to water is low-hanging fruit.

💡How to prioritize:

Warren Buffett has a 25/5 Rule.

It's a powerful prioritization tool. This is how it works.

List your top 25 goals.
Circle the top 5.
Cross out the other 20.

If "everything is important" then "nothing is important" and this separates the cream.

To improve this exercise, cross out another one or two.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

There are only 2 things you need to become very wealthy. Massive confidence and tremendous competence. Once you have those both you are virtually unstoppable.

—Tai Lopez

➕ Is this a recipe for success:

I've listened to a lot of Michael Saylor interviews. He rarely talks about his personal life. But Jordan Peterson probed and got Saylor to talk about his parents.

What One Billionaire Knows About Outlasting a Dollar Collapse | Michael Saylor | EP 554

He said his mom believed he was a 1-in-a-billion talent, going to change the world. His dad was rigid, structured, a product of the military.

I've heard other ultra-successful people describe a similar recipe. It's like a marrying between unwavering belief in the loftiest dreams plus down-to-earth hard work and discipline.