Week 18: Stay Still and Think

Best of what I read recently

On conifers vs angiosperm trees and their strategy of growth. From Dao of Capital. It blew my mind. I’m writing a piece on this.

What makes me wake up enthusiastic lately? What can I do this month around this?Seeing my VO2 Max going up. Very slowly. Training diligently has a second order effect. It’s like sunk cost where I don’t want to lose what I worked hard for. So when my training is hard, my diet is in shape (eat whatever I want, but 1 meal a day and no excess sugar.). Train hard, eat whatever I like.Reading old, deep, thorough books.Tranquility. Stay Still and Think. Thinking sessions where I sit for 2-3 hours and ask my self questions, think about them and write my answers. Normally with a cup of coffee and a bottle of water.Writing. I’m enjoying the research part and “write to think” style of long-form writing I’m doing lately.Walking. Long walks under the sun.Best of what I watched

A style of Man’s Search for Meaning from the Arab Palestinian Humam Yehya.

Something I’m failing at.Early sleep, early rise. It feels like cheating. Though I’m yet to get the owl in me to sleep early and rise early.Eating early and being light going to bed. For years, I’m eating 1 meal a day. And it’s usually after I finish work and a gym session at around 8. This makes going to bed with a big ball in my stomach really annoying sometimes. Still need to fix this. Will write about this when I do.Something that surprised me

I never knew such thing exists..

Something that changed my mindBeing stubborn from Nassim Taleb (NNT.) A blog to follow.Getting advice from experts from NNT. A blog to follow. A good thing I did in the last couple of years is never to believe anything without doing my own research around it.