Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 03/07/26

Updated: Sat, 03/07/26

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🎣 Do you need it:

I’ve noticed a renewed push for seafood and DHA-maxxing, which often stems from the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis (which is bunk).

DHA matters.

As I discuss in The Human Diet, it's clear that large human brains evolved on terrestrial animals, not seafood.

Further, inland populations maintain(ed) these big brains without marine diets.

It's only late in the archaeological record that we see clear evidence of sustained seafood intensification, which just so happens to coincide with megafauna extinctions.

Seafood, like the later intensification of plant foods, was an adaptation to this loss, not the origin story.

Seafood can absolutely be a part of a healthy human diet, but it's not foundational, and modern sourcing comes with considerations like heavy metals, PFAs, and microplastics.

💰 How billionaires die:

Alexey Strygin analyzed 389 billionaire deaths to test whether having nearly unlimited access to resources can extend lifespan.

What the Data Show

About 90% of known deaths were aging-related: cardiovascular disease, cancer, general decline.

As for now, you can't buy much time, and billionaires largely die the same way everyone else does.

⚖️ How do they compare:

Mouth tape. Nasal strips. Anti-snore pillows. Oral devices. There's no shortage of options to improve breathing and sleep, and reduce snoring. But they range from genuinely effective to outright gimmicks.

So I wrote articles comparing SnoreBuds to the most popular sleep aids to help you find what actually works:

SnoreBuds vs Nasal Dilators
SnoreBuds vs Oral Devices
SnoreBuds vs BongoRx

I also wrote an article on how SnoreSealer compares to mouth tape.

💡 How to stop overthinking:

Here's 20 mantras to stop overthinking by Nir Eyal.

I don't need certainty to act.
If t's reversible, I decide fast.
I choose one next step, not ten.
I don't solve feelings; I surf them.
My thoughts are not instructions.
Action creates clarity, not thought.
I write it down so my brain can rest.
I'm allowed to move with partial info.
I give myself a deadline, then choose.
I ask, "What's the next visible action?"
I schedule thinking so that I don't spiral.
I trade rumination for one small experiment.
I let future-me correct, not present-me freeze.
I'm aiming for progress, not the perfect plan.
I ask, "What would this look like if it were easy?"
I accept that some questions stay open while I move.
I notice loops and ask, "Is this helping or hindering?"
I'm the kind of person who stops rehearsing and starts doing.
If it won't matter in 5 years, it doesn't get this much brain space.
I'd rather be roughly right in motion than stuck "perfecting" ideas.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

"They laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at them because they're all the same."

– Kurt Cobain

📊 What performs during war:

Setting geopolitics aside, wars are inflationary, almost without exception.

Governments spend, supply chains fracture, and energy prices spike.

Historical precedent says cash erodes, bonds disappoint, and hard assets hold their ground.

It sets the case for an asset that no government controls, no central bank can dilute, and no border can restrict...

The one thing you could be quite sure of is if we went into some very major war, the value of money would go down. I mean, that’s happened in virtually every war that I’m aware of. So the last thing you’d want to do is hold money during a war.

—Warren Buffett