The Largest Red

Here is a summary of some of the content I interacted with in the first ~ two weeks of January. I will formalize the format at some point, but just wanted to get this out the door. Youtube The LIE of Traditional Strength Training: Why I Moved On This video helped me to think differently about my training and incorporate more natural movements for functionality. Podcasts Becky Kennedy Ferriss - Learning about parenting helps me to decipher the patterns that lead to various behaviors in adulthood. Specifically in the language one can use. Major takeaway was that boundaries are one sided contracts, i.e. I set a boundary with you when I tell you something I will do irrespective of your actions. Random Show Ferriss - primarily led me to learn more about the spinal engine as the driver of movement BTC 215 - Macro with Luke Gromen - I will need to relisten to this to digest fully. There is a lot of knowledge coming from Gromen and I need to develop a better understanding of how the various m...

Thoughts towards the end of 2024 It is difficult when there is nobody to blame but yourself. There are a few areas of my life where I find myself consistently failing and struggling to make progress. First and foremost is my diet. I am very streaky in that I will string together a few good days or weeks, and then fall back into old habits of overeating. I will eat very clean during the week, get good sleep, exercise consistently, and then get to the weekend and eat a bunch of junk, not exercise as much, and sleep in. It has gotten so bad at points that I have had a running “days since last binge” tracker on my phone home screen where I would see how long I would go. The saddest part is that I seldom made it past a week or two. Telling nobody but the man in the mirror, I struggled to be accountable to myself. In the new year, what will I change? I have had in mind a contract to sign with myself, but never actually did it since it seems a bit performative. Banging my head against the wal...

Thoughts as of December 2024. “The provisional life might be defined as a vague malaise: current relationships, work, and lifestyle feel like placeholders until the ‘real thing’ arrives—someday.” I have meant to write about this concept for several months - ironic, right? I feel as though I am finally settling in after being in limbo for some time. It is easy in the chaos of day-to-day life where constant stimuli are coming at you from every direction, and you need only to open your phone or computer to be exposed to a ceaseless barrage of information. I have become aware more recently of myself and others saying “I am too busy for X” or “I want to do Y I just have not gotten around to it.” I am just as guilty as the next person. It seems like we are waiting and waiting and waiting until the day where we finally have time to tackle all of these to-do’s and get down to zero. The problem for me is that when I do get a moment of respite at night or on a weekend, I often squander it on soc...