Notes on reading, fine tobacco, Magic: the Gathering, strength training, polyamory, and the reason I'm here. IMG_0149...
Reference Post. These are the strategies I am currently using to cut body fat. Not a public endorsement. Talk to your doctor or a coach ffs. Reference Photos: 2/28/2026 (Starting Weight) 8/3/2026 (5 Months after Starting) Diet Diet is lexically prior to exercise in losing body fat. The total number of calories that can be burned by exercise is insufficient to offset consuming too much food. As…
I have always been fat. My youngest memories of spending time with peers have myself being made fun of for being the fattest kid on the swim team or in class. I struggled to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle throughout my youth, hindered by a combination of behavioral meta-preferences, clinical depression, pervasive developmental disorder, and other problems of living. Not until college…
I had an acquaintance explain to me that his current income of $200,000 a year salary is insufficient to travel whenever he wants, let alone purchase all the luxuries (two mansions, a Bugatti, a supermodel wife) he needs to be happy. This is a truly sad (let alone misogynistic) perspective on life, but it's a hyperbolic version of the typical argument for every product in modern American…
There are no correct answers in cube design. The designer is constantly navigating a series of elaborate tradeoffs with card selection and the structure of the draft itself. For over a decade, cube designers have written boundless articles piecing together thought technology we can use to understand those tradeoffs. How much fixing should I have in my cube? What should my curve look like? What…
Since starting an aggressive fat loss phase of dieting, I found myself needing some kind of intensive task to distract my brain away from food. Recovery from lifelong unhealthy consumption habits is a hell of a task. While I would like to spend all of my free time reading classic literature, contemplating the decline of America, and sorting through my endless pile of Magic cards, I end up too…
The default position for new technology is to use any piece of technology where there is an apparent benefit. While intuitive, this seems to ignore the basic fact that there's at least psychic and sometimes financial costs. Tacitly knowing how to use 700 apps and having 13 windows open at all times has, for me, caused major mental strain, especially given how much of my work is answering "how do I…