Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 02/14/26

Updated: Sun, 02/15/26

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🥩 What's on the last page:

But imagine it was a 300-page book.

It tells of an evolutionary mismatch between being a metabolically ordinary mammal and fueling an expanding, energy-expensive brain.

For the first 299 pages, this mismatch was solved by fatty meat.

Then, on the last page, crops replace fatty meat, and a new mismatch arises along with the diseases of civilization.

It's a story told in your teeth.

📆 What's my meal plan:

Tuesday is Fat Tuesday.

Here's my meal plan.

😴 What disrupts sleep:

New research suggests that a certain sound machine setting may disrupt your sleep quality.

But to put this in perspective, those results are minuscule compared to snoring.

The data are clear that "second-hand snoring" severely disrupts a partner’s sleep quality, often causing them to lose an hour or more of sleep nightly. Over time, this can lead to chronic fatigue, increased stress, relationship resentment, and potential health issues like high blood pressure, ultimately leading some couples to sleep in separate rooms. (r)

(This is obviously the solution to get restful sleep together :)

💡 How to take advantage:

I like this idea from James Clear.

Take advantage of high motivation to help when motivation is lower.

For example, when you feel the urge to eat healthy, order a cow. A moment of motivation leads to many healthy meals.

I also "milk" motivation for all its worth.

Sometimes my brain gets singularly focused on a task. Instead of breaking focus and switching tasks, I'll move everything off my schedule to stay on task.

For example, this week I wanted to work on building the SnoreBuds Knowledge Base. I thought I'd do a few articles a day over a few weeks or months. Instead, I got obsessed and wrote 171 articles in two days.

I then trained Dr. Stock Bot on all this information. Now "he" can give you pretty good answers. Give it a try.

Click on the bubble in the lower right-hand corner and ask Dr. Stock Bot anything about SnoreBuds.

Use the occasional burst of motivation to your advantage.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

"To enjoy life, the adventurous state of mind must be grasped and maintained. The essential feature of adventure is that it is a going forward into unknown territory."

– Agnes Martin