Performative Bafflement
Fitness, non-fiction book reviews, and study-backed deep dives into topics as diverse as policing, peak physical and mental performance, obesity, and paleoanthropology.
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Links post #6
First half free before the paywall, as always, and a coupon
- Great post from Sean Goedecke on shipping and managing upwards in large tech companies.
There's no such thing as "hot at any size"
Let’s get ratioed!
This post is probably gonna get some outraged comments if it ever breaks out of our nerd sphere!
And given it’s about ratios, maybe getting ratioed was foreordained, who knows?
Background
So this is inspired...
Steppe nomads rule everything around me
Hold onto your hats friends, this is a long one.
I genuinely try to respect my readers’ time, but in this post, my usual 20min reading time soft cutoff, and even my 35 min reading time hard cutoff, has been trampled into unrecognizability...
Building muscle back - rebound hypertrophy and strength
I have lost and regained 20-35 pounds of muscle at least 7-8 times in my life for a variety of reasons, including “startup,” “hedonism” “6 months RV-ing/climbing/hiking,” “hospitalization,” “triathlon training,” and “travel.” Those are the...
Why wanking isn't an answer to the Tyranny of Legibility
So recently I finished a book that brought me to the realization that we can now gradient descent everything, and to thinking about why that’s one of the hugest deals ever for humanity. I wrote about that here.
That post started off as a...
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