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🌍 What won't save the planet:
Eating less meat won't save the planet.
This past week I received lots of messages filled with FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) about energy consumption, meat-eating, and the environment. So I decided to open up a "Program Preview" in Meat Health Academy where you can watch and share this for the next week: Environmental
and Ethical Implications of a Meat-based Diet.
NOTE: All you have to do is click "create a new account" and the Program Previews will be accessible.
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⛏ What ELSE won't save the planet:
Eschewing bitcoin won't save the planet.
I have Elon Musk to thank for some of this energy FUD. He and Tesla put out a concerning statement about the energy consumption with bitcoin mining. Yes, energy is used to secure the bitcoin network, through a mechanism called Proof of Work. But just like the arguments against meat-eating for environmental reasons, the FUD around bitcoin energy
consumption misses the big picture. Bitcoin mining is largely moving to renewables, uses leftover "waste" energy, and incentivizes the most efficient energy usage possible. If anything, bitcoin is pushing the world faster and faster to clean, renewable, efficient energy use.
But I think there is more to this story than Elon's concern about energy usage...
I find the connection between meat-eating carnivores and bitcoin fascinating. Elon needs to eat a steak.
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🏃♂️ Do you sprint or walk:
While we're talking about energy, I really enjoyed this article on managing your energy. Some people are plodders. They persevere with a steady and stable workflow day after day. Then there are bursters. They explode with highly focused work for a
short / cyclical period where they block everything else out. Personally, I'm a fan of the "hybrid" approach.
I like to have "1 Main Thing" that I burst with, and many other things that I plod on. For example, my yearly challenges are an example of the Burst-Plod Hybrid. This year, my main thing is business and entrepreneurship, but I'm still plodding on with art and music. Without the plodding, things fizzle out. Without the burst, it's hard to break through inertia.
There's a time to sprint. There's a time to walk.
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⏭ What is done:
A benefit I see with people who are "burster dominant" is that they are happy to call things Done. They don't get stuck trying to make something perfect. Whereas some plodders run the risk of getting trapped in a never-ending plodding of "touch-ups" and they never ship the book, never complete the project, never
start the next song.
Done is the engine of more.
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🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and thousand other things well."
– Hugh Walpole, on being a generalist and a specialist
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💹 What is inflation:
When you see the prices of commodities going up, the stock market, real estate you can ask yourself: are these things really getting more valuable or is the money that is used to buy them getting less valuable? Is demand going up? Is supply shrinking? When you print trillions of dollars out of thin air, you'd assume it dilutes the value of the dollars in circulation and thus maybe assets aren't appreciating as much as the money used to buy them is depreciating. This week I turned
to Lyn Alden's latest article to help explain what's going on: The Ultimate Guide to Inflation.
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Very good writers are smart enough to marry [people] who kind of look after them and sort of allow them to be a bit childlike.
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As always, it's an absolute pleasure and an honor getting to spend some time with you, hope you have a great weekend!
Kevin
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