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🤔 What does the latest research say (and what I find strange):
Processed carbohydrates (i.e. processed plant-based grains like flours) and processed fats (i.e. processed plant-based fats like vegetable oils) lead to diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver...and cancer and dementia are climbing their way onto this list.
These processed foods are ubiquitous, making up well over half the average American's food intake. And one of the major challenges is that many people think these foods are healthy like the "healthy carb" breakfast cereals and the "healthy fat" seed oils.
We know these processed plant-based foods harm human health. I find it strange that it is universally and unquestionably assumed these plant-based foods are healthy in their whole form and only dangerous when refined.
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⚒ What is the most precious resource:
This was my favorite article of the week. It's written like "parental advice for children," but I think it's advice for anyone: The Most Precious Resource.
"Gain agency is gaining the capacity to do something differently from, or in addition to, the events that simply happen to you. Most famous people go off-script early...[they] were all doing from a young age, as opposed to merely schooling."
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🎶 What video is not relevant to 99.9% of people reading this:
In preparation for my 2020 Challenge (learn to make music), I was introduced to the concept of "mixing" for the 1st time. Prior to that I thought it just meant to "remix" a song, but it's really about putting each instrument / sound in its own place to create separation and clarity which also gives a "3D" sound. For example, in modern music you'll often hear the vocal right up front, but you
may hear background vocals that sound like they're further away, and a guitar in your left headphone and a piano in the right. Over the last few years I have spent countless hours reading books, taking courses, and studying this musical science...and this week I find a 6-minute video that could have replaced 90% of all the hours.
And while learning to mix isn't relevant to 99.9% of the people reading this, I think there is a lesson here. It's about finding the signal in the noise. We live in a world of infinite information (noise) and in this sea of content there are needles (signal) in the haystack (noise). If you can pick out the needles, the diamonds in the rough, the signal through the noise, you can explode learning and supercharge results. And it dawned on
me, this is exactly what my goal was with Meat Health Academy. There is so much noise in the health space it's hard to hear anything at all. With the Academy, the goal was to provide pure signal so anyone wanting to transform their health/body could do it the fastest way possible, through pure signal.
The more I think about this, the more it becomes clear that the future of education is about separating your personal signal from all the noise and then applying the signal in practice.
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🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:
"Without ownership, there is no exchange. Without exchange, there are no prices. Without prices, there is no economic calculation. Without economic calculation, production decisions are made in the dark. When that happens, basic needs go unmet."
– Ludwig von Mises, on socialism
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🏠 Why does your house go up in value over time:
Last week I shared the 3-steps the wealthy use to avoid huge income taxes. They buy assets that appreciate in value (ideally also providing cash flow), borrow against these as collateral (refinancing as needed), and then die (having set up trusts to pass their wealth to heirs without immense tax burdens). This strategy is quite effective under the
current inflationary system that is denominated in USD. But what happens under a bitcoin standard? To think from a bitcoin standard is mind-boggling. For example, if you denominate your house in bitcoin you'll find it hasn't appreciated over the last decade. It's gone up in USD but down in BTC. So what is the future of real estate
under a bitcoin standard?
"Instead of borrowing “money” to purchase a house, individuals will borrow houses by posting Bitcoin as collateral."
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❓ What happened to the other guy:
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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
A Saturday morning roundup on health and wealth, art and science, creativity and innovation, laughs and life by Kevin Stock.
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