Jake Thomas

@jakethomas @signulll Let him know, Jake. 😏

Yeah, domestic first class is not worth it unless you’re very tall and want a bit more room. International business class is one of those things that if you try once, it’s very hard to go back to economy. Particularly the middle eastern airlines. They do business/first at another level.

I’ve never flown first class and I really don’t see the appeal. It doesn’t even look much different. I’m not going to eat/drink on the plane anyway. There’s a bit more leg room which is certainly somewhat appealing but not the difference of first class and economy appealing. What am I missing?

But my problem wasn't calories. It was insulin resistance and inflammation that standard bloodwork barely catches until it's advanced. I’m on a journey to fix my metabolic health so hopefully I can help many others with theirs. Will keep you posted.

This is the part nobody talks about. You can do all the "right" things — avoid sugar, eat clean, exercise — and still have your metabolic health quietly getting worse. Most advice stops at "eat less, move more" or "cut calories."

I eat organic. Pasture-raised meat. Almost no processed food. I thought I was "healthy." Then my labs came back. A1C rising. HDL low. ApoB high. I looked fine on the outside. But something was clearly off.

@Jainadave_ Great idea. I didn’t realize I was so out of balance in protein until I started tracking with my app. When you prioritize protein, there’s a much less chance you’re eating ultra processed foods with added sugars.

Nutrition hack: Dont eat if it doesn't have at least 25gm protein.

@thegarybrecka Limit added sugar under 10g today Tracked with the app I’ve been working on for months for metabolic health.

What is one small thing you want to do for your health today??

@1ssve The pandemic destroyed college social norms. That’s where most people learned fun=not sober. Those few years changed everything. Gen Z is now post pandemic in a hyper inflated world. Who has an extra $50-$100 for drinks on a night out?

Serious Question: The alcohol industry has lost $830 billion in the last 4 years, because Gen Z is not drinking. Why do you think they aren’t drinking?

I built Aura to track my metabolic health. It has completely changed my health for the best.

Most people tracking calories are still eating 80–120g of added sugar without realizing it. Drinks, sauces, “healthy” snacks, and packaged foods are quietly destroying metabolic health. Calorie counters don’t flag this. That’s why people stay inflamed and insulin resistant.

@signulll Dude, this hurt. Have you been to chuys ?

“can i start you off with an appetizer, maybe 30 tortillas?” “god no, i can’t eat that many tortillas!” “how about if cut them up into triangles, fry them in seed oil, & serve them with some salsa?” “omg that sounds delightful”.

@Jason Jason! Go buy a grand seiko when you’re in Japan next!

Never mind about the Rolex… had no idea buying one was like buying a Ferrari, where you have to beg, jump though hoops and then buy products you don’t want to get the one you do want! 😂 thought it would be fun to own, but would much prefer to just order something on a website (like a Tesla!) and be done with it. These retail and reseller channels make things far too time consuming Is there a nice watch I can just… order?

Honey is a health food. Too much honey is not a health food.

Bottom 50% of taxpayers paying $0 tax is a guaranteed win in politics. Now pair that with finding 3% cuts in government spending. And an AI tax on data centers. Everyone wins

@CoachDanGo And some think, they can run it off 🤦🏽

No one realizes how easy it is to eat 2000 calories in one sitting.

@naval The algorithms haven’t helped this situation. I talked to a young lady the other day and she said she never heard the counter point to the water consumption.

The latest IQ test involves data centers and water.

@naval I built a business as a solo entrepreneur. The journey was so much fun as I was engaging in new adventures. Now that those adventures have become routine, I find myself itching for the next frontier.

What you really want is a challenge at the edge of your capability.

@thegarybrecka I tell all my patients who have desk jobs. Sit for 15 min and stand for 45. - Use a standing foam pad - occasional squats and frequent movement - a pull up bar near by would be incredible to negate the slouching

Your workout can’t undo 10 hours of sitting. Your body was built to move constantly… not stay parked in a chair all day. New rule: Every hour, move for 3–5 minutes. Walk. Stretch. Squat. Get outside. The people who stay healthy long term aren’t just the ones who exercise. They’re the ones who stop being sedentary.

@thegarybrecka I think you would love this app Gary. I’ve wired the algos to focus on exactly what you preach. Real,Whole Foods.

Tonight, cook something real. It does not have to be complicated. A piece of wild-caught fish or quality meat with salt and pepper, seared in butter. A pile of roasted vegetables drizzled with olive oil. A simple salad dressed with lemon and good oil. That is dinner. Whole food. Minimal processing. Real nourishment. The people who consistently feel their best are not following complicated meal plans. They are cooking simple, real food most nights of the week. Tonight is a great night to be one of those people.

I talked to a 20 y.o recently who told me she absolutely despises A.I and everything about it. - She fully believed the Bernie sanders sentiment on data centers. - “why would I support something that’s just going to make corporations more money when they cut employees?” -“trump is working with the billionaires to make it happen” Few things I took from it. No matter how much I tried to convince her of the benefits of AI, a level of trump derangement syndrome had a role. She liked the idea of the big corps paying for discounts to the local electricity. —— This large group of people in the US need to see visible benefit beyond smart chat bots or this will get worse.

Here’s the longer version of Eric Schmidt’s commencement speech from Arizona State & an AI transcript. Every mention of AI, instantly booed. ─── Every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person, and every relationship you have. I know what many of you are feeling about that. I can hear you. There is a fear. There is a fear in your generation. And that the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are evaporating, that the climate is breaking, that politics is fractured, and that you are inheriting a mess that you did not create. And I understand that fear. It's rational. And it's amplified every day by social media platforms, with algorithms that have learned with great precision, that fear earns clicks, and that anxiety drives engagement. But I want to say something to you this evening as clearly as I can. To speak of the future, as though it has already been decided, is to surrender the one thing that actually matters. You are surrendering your agency. The future does not simply arrive. It gets built in laboratories, in dormitories, in startups, in classrooms, in legislators, and the people building it will be you and people like you. The question is not whether AI will shape the world — it will. The question is whether you will help shape artificial intelligence. We do not know the precise contours of what this transformation will look like. But what we do know is it will require each of us to adapt in ways that we cannot yet anticipate. My hope is that you will choose to engage, that you choose to be in the room where these decisions take place, and to have a voice in how they're made. When you are in that room, bring something with you — bring the values that make us human in the first place. The technology on its own is just a tool. It will optimize for what we tell it to optimize for. But somebody has to decide, and in your lifetime, that somebody is going to be you. So choose freedom. Choose open debates, and the slow, often messy, but beautiful project of learning to live alongside people with whom you disagree. Choose equality. Choose a diversity of perspectives, including the perspective of the immigrant, who has so often been the person who came to this country and made it better. America is at its best when we are the country that ambitious people want to come to. Let us not lose that. But above all, choose respect for one another, and for the basic unfashionable idea that the person on the other side of the argument is still a person. If we build artificial intelligence to reflect those values, the world will be unimaginably better for it. So let me tell you how hopeful I am about that, because on balance, I am deeply optimistic, and I believe that you should be as well. So consider science. So much of human progress is the story of science and medicine, and artificial intelligence is already accelerating research at a rate that we could not have imagined even five years ago. We have only seen maybe one percent of what is to come. AI is now designing new molecules, running simulations, identifying patterns in genomic data that no team of humans could uncover in a lifetime. AI has solved the 50-year-old protein folding problem in a matter of months. The next generation of antibiotics will come from this work. The next generation of cancer treatments will come from this work. The materials that will allow us to scale clean energy will come from this work. Or look at astronomy, a field in which this university excels. The team at the Steward Observatory are building a telescope more powerful than Hubble. That work, which is changing the understanding of the universe, is happening right here in Tucson right now. x.com/cvkueppersbook…