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Brankas | Senior Frontend Developer | Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand or Vietnam | Full-Time | REMOTE

Brankas is solving the "last mile" for Open Banking in Southeast Asia.

We are a global team of banking software experts backed by leading fintech venture capital firms in Asia and Silicon Valley. Our vision is to make modern financial services available to everyone, by increasing access and encouraging partnerships between financial institutions and fintech partners.

Brankas is building the next generation of Open APIs and infrastructure for banks, insurance, and other financial institutions across Southeast Asia. Our API-based technology supports real-time disbursements, customer payments by bank transfer, reconciliation, and account statement retrieval for online lenders.

We provide cutting-edge consumer and enterprise focused financial management software and systems. Brankas’ enterprise-focused web apps make use of best-in-breed, modern frontend technologies such as TypeScript and Vue.js (among others), and leverage third-party systems and APIs where possible.

https://brank.as/about#senior-frontend-developer

Brankas | Senior Frontend Developer | Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand or Vietnam | Full-Time | REMOTE

Brankas is solving the "last mile" for Open Banking in Southeast Asia.

We are a global team of banking software experts backed by leading fintech venture capital firms in Asia and Silicon Valley. Our vision is to make modern financial services available to everyone, by increasing access and encouraging partnerships between financial institutions and fintech partners.

Brankas is building the next generation of Open APIs and infrastructure for banks, insurance, and other financial institutions across Southeast Asia. Our API-based technology supports real-time disbursements, customer payments by bank transfer, reconciliation, and account statement retrieval for online lenders.

We provide cutting-edge consumer and enterprise focused financial management software and systems. Brankas’ enterprise-focused web apps make use of best-in-breed, modern frontend technologies such as TypeScript and Vue.js (among others), and leverage third-party systems and APIs where possible.

https://brank.as/about#senior-frontend-developer

Brankas | Senior Frontend Developer | Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand or Vietnam | Full-Time | REMOTE

Brankas is solving the "last mile" for Open Banking in Southeast Asia.

We are a global team of banking software experts backed by leading fintech venture capital firms in Asia and Silicon Valley. Our vision is to make modern financial services available to everyone, by increasing access and encouraging partnerships between financial institutions and fintech partners.

Brankas is building the next generation of Open APIs and infrastructure for banks, insurance, and other financial institutions across Southeast Asia. Our API-based technology supports real-time disbursements, customer payments by bank transfer, reconciliation, and account statement retrieval for online lenders.

We provide cutting-edge consumer and enterprise focused financial management software and systems. Brankas’ enterprise-focused web apps make use of best-in-breed, modern frontend technologies such as TypeScript and Vue.js (among others), and leverage third-party systems and APIs where possible.

https://brank.as/about#senior-frontend-developer

A few off the top of my head:

- Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World (This is one I still want to really work through, it's very comprehensive)

-Drift into Failure

-Systems Thinking For Social Change

-The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

Considering only the viewpoints inside the scientific consensus is limited - anyone as you said that practises the scientific method, whether in a formal institution, or not, should be able to have their view point considered. We should also never forget that there are politics in science too, and what's accepted is not always what is correct.

Scientists are subject to the human condition, just like anyone else.

I agree there are many snakeoil salesman, or kooks around. But I don't agree that the mainstream has the most optimal advice. In my personal experience I have been much more successful, in all my pursuits (health, programming, movement) by not following main stream advice, but rather seeking the minority that makes sense to me. In the words of Mark Twain, "The majority is always wrong, and the minority is sometimes right". I think the secret is finding the minority that aren't kooks, or snakeoil salesman. They do exist. I have found a few of them. Take the Ray Peat example. He didn't even know he had forums of people discussing his ideas. He doesn't even actively promote himself, or his ideas at all. I respectfully disagree that main stream advice is the most pragmatic.

I don't think the scientific community embraces the holistic nature of the world enough, as we tend to be dominated by linear thinking. If what you said were true, then we wouldn't have fields like Systems Thinking. It's definitely a niche area in research.

I also disagree about your comments on different diets. I have personally seen people religiously follow different diets, and do very badly on some, and well on others. I also prefer not to make statements like "People are not unique snowflakes" since I don't think we know enough at this stage. We are only beginning to understand the role of organisms in our gut for example, on overall health. I think your arguments here are too simplistic, and do not give a complex system like a human body enough credit. You should know that any simple answers to complex questions tend to be wrong.

Scientific consensus tends to be attached to formal institutions, not so? Formal institutions are then an authoritarian source. It comes from a position of authority. What you're essentially saying is something Government decreed for example, is not authoritarian, became it was enacted by a group of people. Obviously not true. Private individuals are generally less authoritarian, but they no doubt can be too. In this case, I am not aware of Ray Peat at all expressing his opinions as fact, but rather as something to be considered and questioned, like anything else.

That's true, though surely there are already signs in your 30's of later health problems (Obesity, etc)

How about considering different viewpoints? Main stream advice should always be questioned. Also, different diets work for different types of people, and there are 10000 other factors. You can't simply isolate one variable, complex systems don't care about your linear ideas.

A an upcoming documentary an alternative theories related to this: http://perceivethinkact.com/

Also checkout the forums yourself, and then decide if these people are unreasonable:

https://raypeatforum.com

That is assuming you are not suffering from a bias towards authoritarian sources. ;)

I haven't heard any reports of people getting teeth issues, assuming they actually look after them. The community there is quite skeptical, and very much for experimenting on themselves, having blood tests taken, etc.

Here's another article that explains the alternative view point on this: http://digestiblekitchen.com/2013/10/confused-about-sugar-on...

Note that I'm not recommending processed foods either. I actually think it's much harder to eat lots of sugar, if you are only consuming it in non-processed foods.

But then is it sugar itself that is the problem?

There's a difference between 'selfies' and keeping a record of your training towards certain physical skills. I follow a number of people who I feel inspired by, on IG, that share similar videos, and I like to return the favour. If I can do this stuff, then anyone can, I'm not naturally inclined that way. So my goal is to inspire. Plus my skill level is still beginner basically, compared to what some other people can do. :)

You should always google the opposite view points too, and not just consider the main stream opinion on things.

There are forums of people that take the opposite viewpoint, and do very well too. It's best to be open minded. We don't have everything figured out yet.

Sugar is just an empty calorie, there's plenty of studies that also show that it has no real net negative effect. The problem is when your diet consists primarily of empty calories, then obviously you are going to have health problems, from lack of nutrients. If your diet is nutrient rich, a bit of extra sugar will not do anything bad.

I'm not actually that young, I'm 33. (I also haven't been training very long, about 2 years now) I agree though, I am a sample size of one. There are forums of people who follow Ray Peat's ideas, and some do consume large amounts of sugar, and do really well.

The opposite view: http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/sugar-issues.shtml . Ray Peat's argument is that polyunsaturated fats are the real culprit, and if you look at most sugar laden foods these days, it's difficult to find any that don't also contain a decent amount of PUFA.

This is a great idea, I'll definitely be doing some followup posts in future.