Alex Corindia 🧬

Eliminating microplastics entirely is not realistic—they’re everywhere. Reducing exposure, though? Totally within reach with some evidence-backed strategies. Think of it as imperfect avoidance. My top tips are: Try filtering tap water with a reverse osmosis system—studies show it catches 99.9% of microplastics and other chemicals. Swap plastic bottles and aluminum cans (they have plastic linings too) for glass or stainless steel and skip disposable coffee cups—their plastic coatings leach over time—and grab a reusable mug instead. You should also cut back on canned goods. Research flags a potential 1,000% BPA spike in urine after consumption, so go fresh or BPA-free when possible. Maybe the biggest tip? Avoid heating plastic: no microwaving in containers or stirring hot food with plastic utensils because heat accelerates chemical release. Upgrade your cookware too. Ditch degrading non-stick pans for stainless steel, cast iron, or ceramic, and pair them with wooden tools. These tweaks hit the major exposure points.

3 wearables. 3 vastly different data points. How much did I actually sleep? Super bullish on where health tech is going, but need to feel confident my data is accurate and useful.

Drinking 8 glasses of water daily is based on zero science. Real hydration requires sodium + glucose in a 2:1 ratio—this activates transport proteins that pull water into cells. Without both salt and sugar, you're just flushing your system.

This was Steve Jobs’ favorite piece of art. Here’s why: Simplicity takes more time than complexity. Picasso spent countless hours reworking these designs — starting with the most complex design and slowly simplifying. Jobs did the same thing with Apple and built that as a central tenet of the ethos at the company. He would come back to this series of 11 lithographs by Picasso for inspiration. “It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions.” Simplicity scales much faster and more sustainably than complexity. Takeaway: Time spent thinking about what is at the core of something is time well spent. To me, this visual is a great reminder that studying the essential nature of whatever you are working on always makes your work better. We need to be reminded more than we need to be taught. What are you trying to solve this year? What is the core of that issue?