StacyC

Love the website, fonts, UI and all of it! It brings back fun memories of my early Mac days.

Baldies, you come here seeking comments? Dimwits!

It’s so true. I was about to go for a walk this morning, but no, because iPhone.

Beautifully said. I’m an American and I feel this one too for some reason. It feels nice to stop and reflect on this a bit today — life, and all of it.

Using it now — I like it!

I'm still waiting for some definition of "god" to inform these conversations. What is this thing we are talking about?

I set up Notion as an intranet for my wife's company and it has been enormously useful for posting company documents, policies, handbooks, announcements, etc. Employees are invited as "guests" at no additional charge.

We also use a Notion database with various views for tracking customers, sales pipeline, rewards, and a lot more.

When we bring on a new customer, we quickly create (from a template) a personalized welcome page for them with an embedded copy of their service agreement and a few other things. Notion can generate a public link so we send this right away and it makes a nice impression.

Performance isn't great but it is so useful for us that I don't mind. I do hope they provide an offline version soon as that is my biggest wish right for it right now.

* I'm not affiliated with the company, just a pleased customer.

Very nice! Gratitude is good for the soul.

Before my last blood test a few months ago I decided to try the “Feldman Protocol” as an experiment — a week before the test I ate nothing but meat and eggs, very high in protein and fat. The results were as Feldman’s work predicts.

My HDL was up (67), triglycerides down (60). When my doctor got the results she called me and the conversation went like this:

Doc: I got your bloodwork results in today.

Me: And?

Doc: I have really good news.

Me: Great!

Doc: What are you doing?

I explained a little about the Feldman Protocol and she went quiet for a while, and finally said, well, keep doing what you’re doing I guess.

The only thing I can say about calories is that after seven years on keto and feeling great, I have never given any thought to my calorie intake.

My weight remains stable as do my energy levels, so I can only assume that (1) I am getting exactly the right amount of calories from my diet, or (2) calories are an irrelevant metric.

I eat quite a lot of red meat, ribeye when I can, ground beef. Also pork, some fish. I prefer beef with a bit of fat.

I am convinced that dietary fat and cholesterol are not the problem as we have been told for decades.

My blood work is excellent. In fact, my doctor is on board with what I am doing but she also doesn’t quite know what to make of it. I think she still has some cognitive dissonance with someone eating the way I do and seeing the results that, per her training, should not be happening.

I also used to take 50mg of Losartan for blood pressure but I no longer need it.

My understanding of this is that the body will always preferentially burn glucose because excess blood sugar is highly problematic, while excess fat can just be stored without the severe health risk.

With carb intake reduced the body will naturally switch to burning fat because it is the only fuel source available.

I am 58, on a (mostly) strict ketogenic diet since 2013. It has worked wonders for me and I expect to eat this way the rest of my life. I eat a lot of meat and eggs as I have found that combination (1) is something I enjoy very much, and (2) makes me feel the best.

I didn’t have much weight to lose but I went from 175 to 160 (high school weight) and under 15% body fat. My energy level is consistently very good.

Diet is a subjective thing, of course, but at a minimum getting rid of sugars and processed food might be a good starting point for anyone.

Anecdote: my brother-in-law reversed his T2 diabetes and lost quite a bit of weight doing keto. His doctor had advised meds to “manage” the disease.

You might be able to solve most of your problems by being more conservative about upgrading.

This is the answer. I do IT consulting and support for Apple-based small businesses, and I constantly have to remind my clients to not just accept every update prompt they see. I advise waiting for .1 or .2 releases. There is never a reason to update right away, in my experience.

After five years on a ketogenic diet (low carb, higher fat) I now eat mostly fatty meat and eggs, and little else. I have never felt better or been in better health.

This is anecdote, but a growing number of people are discovering the same thing. Beef is great food. It will not go away.

As I’ve gotten older I find that my wants are fewer, and the list of things I truly care about has gotten much shorter. I’m happy with what I have now and grateful for the basic things (family, health, work I enjoy).

Consider making as many good experiences as you can, rather than accumulating more things.

I like it!

I'm getting a "You don't have permission to access /~stacy/nullboard/ on this server" error. Permissions on the folder look ok, any ideas?

Thanks...

*Edit: Never mind, my error

Same. I have been using it for my consulting business for years, keeping daily notes for client work as well as personal items in a notebook that my wife and I share. Evernote has proven to be quite useful for me.

This is great - thank you

I had so much fun playing this in college on a Mac Plus in our little computer room (closet)!

I’m curious why you don't think DLT will find traction. I don't have a strong opinion either way, but it seems that a number of good use cases have been floated for it to replace “trusted third parties” and other intermediaries, minimize corruptibility, etc.

I would be interested to see any rigorous science to support this statement. I am persuaded that it is a myth.

This is purely anecdotal (although not uncommon) but I went keto/low carb in 2013 and immediately felt great. In recent months I have made fatty meat and eggs the majority of my diet - very few veggies, no fruit - and I have never felt so good and energetic.

Protein and fat are amazing.

Good luck getting beef and pork off my table

This is the book that switched on the light for me. It’s no exaggeration to say that it put me on a path to the best levels of health and fitness I have ever known. I am 56 and feel like I’m in the prime of life.

“The mainstream public is aware that these networks don’t scale.”

The mainstream public is barely aware that these networks exist.

Notions of "success" often include no consideration whatsoever of happiness or general contentment with life.

We moved to one of the top ISDs in Texas years ago, ended up pulling our kids out and home-schooling. It was a hyper competitive, near-toxic environment. No thanks.

I have found the recipe for well-being to be pretty simple: good health, work I enjoy, good relationships, community, time to be quiet. Don't need much else, imo.

I would like to believe it, but I can't seem to find that strong evidence anywhere.

That’s because it doesn’t exist, of course. We have been tragically misled for about 30 years.

This is N=2 but my wife and I switched to a low-carb/high-fat diet last summer and we are both at our ideal weight, higher energy than we have had in many years, and feeling absolutely fantastic. I think this is where the current metabolic science is taking us.

My wife and I have been on a very low carb / high fat diet for the last 4 months, and we have never felt better. Eating lots of eggs, bacon, steak, butter, some veggies and fruit. We both lost weight too. Also cut out processed food, sugar and grains — bread, pasta, rice, cereal — basically a ketogenic diet, which adapts the body to burning fat more readily.

We both have also noticed that we just feel more mental clarity, more energy and no cravings for junk food. It is amazing. I hope this message gets through in the U.S. eventually.

The Paleo Diet (or something similar) has also worked well for many people in losing weight and just feeling better overall. The culprit seems to be less about calories and exercise than about eliminating carbs, sugar and processed foods.

There is quite a lot of anecdotal evidence to support this, and I can just add that my wife and I started on it nine weeks ago and we have never felt better. I even dropped a few pounds although I didn't really need to. We also supplement with probiotics to ensure that we maintain good levels of healthy bacteria in the gut, which is where much of our immune system functions.

Tolle’s work and meditative practice are not mutually exclusive nor in conflict with one another. His characterization of the human mind—how we create (mostly unintentionally, through conditioned habits) so much suffering and problems for ourselves—is spot on and very helpful for gaining an understanding of ourselves, imo.