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@BowTiedPassport What’s the best area in Mexico City overall - safety, food, access?

🇲🇽 In Mexico City, you can find 3-bedroom, 2-bath, 2-story apartments for $2,000 a month. 2 terraces 24/7 Security Why pay $4,500 for a studio in NYC when you can have a triplex with private outdoor space in a nice area of Mexico City? The choice is yours.

@MyLatinLife @JakeNomada What are the tax implications please?

El Salvador just changed the game. 🇸🇻 My lawyers tell me a new law just passed and now residency requires only 90 days per YEAR of physical presence. (The residency historically had NOT been popular because it used to be 8+ months per year.) This is HUGE.

@newstart_2024 @AdamMGrant your perspective?

Helen Andrews issues a stark warning: Mass female workforce entry is triggering two potentially civilization-ending crises at once. First: The "great feminization" of institutions—channeling women of childbearing age into careers has shifted workplaces toward consensus, empathy, and conflict avoidance, eroding merit, debate, and function (think wokeness as a symptom). Second: Plummeting birth rates, as career focus delays or prevents kids—no prior civilization has ever run this experiment at scale. These aren't separate problems—they stem from the same unprecedented shift. Birth rate alarms get attention, but Andrews argues the institutional decay is the overlooked twin threat. Is she onto something profound about modern society's trade-offs—or is this overreach? What do you see as the bigger risk: collapsing fertility or feminized institutions?

@breath_Guy Can I DM you? Quick question.

@breath_Guy Interesting. I have a very specific meditation related breathing experience associated with interoceptive awareness increases.

Interoception of breathing and its relationship with anxiety

@CoachDanGo I’m in Brazil right now watching jacked 70 year olds surf. Super inspiring.

Never say to yourself "I'm just getting old". There are people in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s getting their bodies in incredible shape. It's never about your age. It's about your standards.

@BenBikmanPhD What would be your best measures then - combination with fasting / resting glucose?

I don't like HbA1c as a clinical marker. I don't like how it's replaced almost every fasting marker, including fasting glucose. Of course, without fasting, you miss even better markers, such as fasting insulin, triglycerides, and HDL cholesterol. I also don't like that too many clinicians think HbA1c is only a marker of glucose. They forget there's another feature of that marker--the red blood cell. The most common blood disorder worldwide is iron deficiency anemia (because of lack of red meat). Unfortunately, even this can confuse HbA1c. With less iron, comes reduced RBC turnover, which can lead to an artificially elevated HbA1c. In this case, it's not a reflection of glucose at all, but rather "zombie" red blood cells that aren't allowed to die on time. The sooner HbA1c stops being the darling of clinical markers, the better. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25994072/

@ericosiu More context please on how to use. Thx.

This is the power of pinealon on sleep: Resting heart rate: 47 to 41 🟢 Heart rate variability: 64 to 87 (109 on Eight Sleep) 🟢 Am averaging more overall sleep and time in bed. Feel more well rested in the morning overall. ymmv dyor.

@yoalexrapz @calleymeans

Can we start having serious conversations about what we’re going to do about this? Isn’t this why we want power? To enact certain policies? Or are we not allowed to ask questions?

@TheDrMAWZ @sleepdiplomat

A new drug in the middle of clinical trials just increased REM sleep by 90% without making people sleep longer! This is the first medication ever to specifically enhance REM only and the implications go far beyond seizure control. Here's what just happened. 🧵

@benln I’m there as of Jan 14th for a month, let’s jam.

@benln Will you be in Floripa?

Cafe Cursor is going global in January:

@benln One AI project, and one health related. How to join?

Just set up a group chat for 10 Cursor team members who occasionally angel invest. Reach out if you're starting something new we should share in the group!

@SahilBloom Sometimes you can just do whatever the F you want without having to explain yourself to others. This might be that time ;-)

I've been blown away by the response to Wild Roman. And I've also seen a lot of people weighing in on this being a bad move relative to other things I could have done... I welcome the pushback, but here's why they're all wrong: This was not a financial play (nor was that the primary motivator) and it had very little to do with my audience as the strategy. If I were interested in the fastest way to maximize $, I would have just launched a course, mastermind, or whatever info products big influencers are doing these days. I've always viewed selling to my audience as an afterthought. It's great for short term dopamine, but bad for long-term durable businesses. So many examples of people thinking a big audience equals a successful business, and finding out the hard way that it just isn't the case. So why did I start this? My rule for anything I do is simple: Create things you'd want to consume. That applies to my writing/content, but more broadly to business. I don't want an info product or mastermind. I wouldn't consume that, so I've never been inclined to create it. The reality is that I've been obsessing over my own skincare and natural products since I was in my mid-20s because I struggled with bad skin my whole life (and a natural concoction from my grandmother fixed it). In this case, I spent 18 months (and way too much of my own money) to get a challenging physical product off the ground. It's a product I am extremely proud of. So much so that I'm full price paying customer number 1, with the first two complete routine subscriptions (one for my wife and one for me). I believe deeply in what we created and think it's amazing. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions on whether something is the right move or not, but I've personally never been more excited about a business project. I'm in flow with this, and it'll show in the results. I don't need to talk about it much more than that. P.S. Check it out at WildRoman.com. The product rocks.

@ChrisWillx Highly recommend a book by Haemin Sunim on this topic - “the things you can see only when you slow down”.

The Shame of Simple Pleasures

@ChrisLaubAI @hubermanlab

This is insane 🤯 A new system called Paper2Video can read a scientific paper and automatically create a full presentation video slides, narration, subtitles, even a talking head of the author. It’s called PaperTalker, and it beat human-made videos in comprehension tests. Hours of academic video editing... gone. AI now explains your research better than you do. 👉 github. com/showlab/Paper2Video

@CoachDanGo I want this but for my body - how I’m moving, posture, misalignment, risks, etc.

Question for health conscious people: What would a nutrition coaching app need to have for you to actually use it every day?

@_simonsmith Does it covert text or bullets into logical images well?

I keep repeating myself, but NotebookLM slides have so completely changed the presentation game for me. Both Claude and ChatGPT can now create mediocre PowerPoints. But NotebookLM’s decks are on another level. Narratively and visually top notch. The only downside currently is that slides aren’t editable, though you can export them as images and edit those with Nano Banana Pro in Gemini or Google Slides. And Google says editing is coming. There’s simply nothing else out there like this. Sure, Gamma, BeautifulAI, but not the same. Initial outputs look templated and then you futz with elements on slides. If NotebookLM slide generation was a standalone vibe presentation maker, it would have crazy accelerating ARR right now. Of the image models, only GPT Image 1.5 is capable of remotely comparable design of complex information-laden slides (text, charts, mockups, diagrams, etc.). (But it doesn’t seem to do slide aspect ratio.) So if OpenAI doesn’t offer something competitive, Google may just own this use case for a long time.

@mrmoneymustache What’s your take on best short term, health insurance coverage options?

Health Insurance: I'm still really happy with what I've been doing since since 2020: - Direct primary care (DPC) physician subscription - Sedera Health Sharing (alternative to insurance with a $5k annual max out of pocket type of setup) mrmoneymustache.com/2020/11/09/dir… Total monthly cost for me at 51 is about $400. And no copays for doctor visits! Cautions: works best for people without existing chronic expenses. Also check the ACA marketplace including subsidies which can be very affordable in some cases.

@khemaridh I have a tool I want to show you. Check DM.

Let's be honest. You don't do ANYTHING with all those Zoom calls you're recording with Fireflies, Otters and other anthropomorphized software tools There's a bigger story here. Chances are you're deluding yourself about the value AI is truly bringing to your work. It's more shiny new toy than tool that fundamentally changes how you work. For now. I truly believe that the next "edge" is non-coders building tools to solve their daily problems. And for me, as someone who "sells" on a daily basis I DO need those Zoom transcripts. I need to build an automated "sales brain." One that captures my future customers' dream, use cases, pain points. One that can triage this in a way that accumulates knowledge. And then dishes unique and tailored insights that help me better solve my clients' problems. khemaridh.substack.com/p/whats-the-po…