And diet and exercise and predictions about AI and stocks and and and...

>"Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available."

Certainly applies to religion, hhh.

Just learned about this:

"Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available."

That seems to track.

BTW, this is from sci-fi writer Gregory Benford, not to be confused with Benford's Law, which is a mathematical law and also interesting for different reasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford#Benford's_law_of_controversy

>what if

They call my wife.

<< I carry it maybe 3-4 times per year...

but.. what if people need to get hold of you anytime of the day or night?

Some of my 'emergency' anemia treatments (due to a very rare condition) required me to check into the hospital Infusion Center for a couple of IVIG treatments.  Most of the patients in IC are being treated for cancer. It was a sad place.

>everyone has one

I have one, yes, a 9yo hand-me-down Samsung Note 8. No apps installed that I'm aware of. I carry it maybe 3-4 times per year. I am using it recently for some medical providers that require 2fa. People are incredulous when they're told I don't carry a phone --particularly women.

Housing starts down 12.4%
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/u-s-housing-starts-dropped-in-july-96b4f96a

The problem with health and fitness news and advice broadly defined is that the things that really matter aren't interesting and the things that are really interesting mostly don't matter.

So there is a focus on, say, cold plunges. Are they "good" for you? Maybe. But they are only significant if you're in the 99th percentile on basic things like getting good sleep, being active and eating vegetables.

But since the advice to get good sleep, be active and eat my vegetables is the exact advice my grandmother gave me 50+ years ago, it's hard to keep writing interesting articles about it.

So the articles are about things like some acai-spirulina "superfood" smoothie or "Norwegian 4x4s" (and BTW, if anyone recommends doing "Norwegians" you can be certain they have no idea what they are talking about).

But the secret is the same non-secret it has always been: persistent and consistent attention to the biggest levers. The one your gramma told you about.

And it was ever so. Here's a quote from the 1970s book Once a Runner:

"What was the secret, they wanted to know; in a thousand different ways they wanted to know The Secret. And not one of them was prepared, truly prepared, to believe that it had not so much to do with chemicals and zippy mental tricks as with that most unprofound and sometimes heartrending process of removing molecule by molecule, the very tough rubber that comprised the bottoms of his training shoes."

Do you remember Genuine Naughahyde?