Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 09/13/25

Updated: Thu, 09/18/25

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

Next week, I should have a long treat for you, so today I'll keep it a bit shorter :)

🥩 What's outside your lane:

"Stay in your lane” is one of the most anti-intellectual, anti-scientific things one can say.

It's a defense rhetoric to try and disqualify a person instead of debating their ideas.

Crossing lanes enables new hypotheses, experiments, and evidence. Aka—science.

Per a comment on this LinkedIn post: If someone's "lane" is full of pot holes, you'd think they'd welcome some "outside" input.

🦷 Who crossed lanes:

Many key dental insights have been gleaned by non-dentists.

For example, Dr. Robert Corruccini got his Ph.D. in Anthropology and Paleontology, which led to his eye-opening work on malocclusion.

Contrary to the evidence, most people still think crooked teeth are just a genetic phenomenon.

But malocclusion comes from baby bottles ➡️ Gerber purées ➡️ soft, nutrient-devoid, modern ultra-processed food.

❤️‍🩹 What's the difference: traditional vs alternative health

An anonymous dentist on twitter posted what he viewed as the main difference between traditional and alternative health. (r)

I thought it was quite good:

Alternative health has more sensitive diagnostic criteria, and has higher standards of health by valuing subclinical disease. This is much more aligned with low volume, individualized medicine.

Traditional health requires a more binary approach to fit into algorithms that benefit people at scale, which the system requires to function.

Take a high volume doctor and reduce him down to a dozen patients, in 30 days his practice style will be unrecognizable in favor of a more alternative approach.

On the flip side, take the most crunchy healer and put him in a Medicaid clinic and watch the prescriptions start to flow.

Neither side wants to acknowledge why the other exists, and until that happens the bridge will never get built.

💡 How to be satisfied:

Life satisfaction is highly consistent with personality.

This study found they could predict with 80-90% accuracy how happy someone was with their life just by knowing their personality traits.

Traits Most Related to High Life Satisfaction

Emotionally stable (not getting upset easily)
Extraverted (outgoing)
Conscientious (organized and hardworking)

Reading this, I thought: inside there are two wolves, and life satisfaction depends on which one you feed.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

"Live a disciplined life, spontaneously."

– Naval Ravikant

📈 Who is in on the action:

I remember when the biggest fear / threat to bitcoin was a government crackdown.

Now the sons of the President of the United States are launching a bitcoin treasury company.

Here are some reasons why everyone is getting on board.

🎤 Who was caught on mic:

Putin, Xi, Kim were caught on a hot mic about living to 150.

"Human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live younger… and even achieve immortality.”
—Putin

“Predictions are, this century, there’s a chance of also living to 150,” —Xi

As always, it's an honor getting to spend some time with you.

Hope you have a great weekend!

Kevin

P.S.

Over 97% of Americans have this in their fridge.

Spoiler: I don't.