Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 05/30/26

Updated: Tue, 06/02/26

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🍺 Why I stopped drinking:

I admit, this was a poorly worded tweet...

The recommendation isn't to have a couple drinks! 😂

This post led to a lot of comments.

Many people asked why I stopped drinking 15 years ago and what prompted me to have a couple of drinks this past weekend.

Here's the full story.

P.S.

The giving up alcohol story is very similar to my giving up junk food story. At points in my life, the costs of drinking and eating junk food outweighed the benefits I got from them. When these switches flipped, my decisions and behavior naturally followed without willpower or a feeling that I was sacrificing anything, which I assume is why these habits have stuck.

😴 How to fall back asleep:

If you wake up in the middle of the night, here's a simple trick to fall back asleep:

Count down from eight to one, while taking long exhale breaths through your nose.

Now if you're waking up because your bedtime partner is snoring, roll them onto their side, then gift them a mutually beneficial present.

🍑 How to age better:

Apparently the secret to healthier aging is rock-solid glutes.

If you're not sure where to start with resistance training, here's a home-based, 12-minutes-a-day program.

💡 Who to hang out with:

The Pygmalion Effect is a behavioral phenomenon that says we rise to the level of expectations that others have for us.

So when choosing who to spend time with, default to people who have high expectations for you, who believe you are capable of more, who encourage you to think bigger.

It's the best kind of peer pressure, the kind of discomfort that lifts you to better versions of you.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

“Nobody who plays Super Mario Brothers or some video game for the first time falls into a pit and is just like: 'oh my gosh I fell into a pit, I failed, how embarrassing, I never want to play this game again.' You're like: 'okay crap, there's a pit right there. Okay, next time I'm gonna go a little bit faster, I'm going to jump a little earlier.' You immediately learn from the failure and you're stoked to try again.”

– Mark Rober, on failure

📊 How much do they have:

This week's most anticipated IPO came with a Bitcoin surprise.

SpaceX filed for a June 12th listing at a potential $2 trillion valuation. The largest IPO in history.

Buried in the filing, 18,712 bitcoin sit on their balance sheet, worth ~$1.4B, more than double what analysts estimated.

The Mag7, soon to be the Mag8, all hold a treasury in a currency that loses value every year. Now 25% of them will hold a different currency with a fixed supply, with no issuer, no counterparty, that can't be faked or debased.