- You have 3 natural cortisol peaks throughout the day, 8-9, 12-1, and 5-6 (approximately). While cortisol is normal regarded as the bad stress hormone, this is only after long-term stress effects. Short-term, cortisol can be regarded as the body’s natural upper to increase alertness. Drinking caffeine while the body is already peaking cortisol is not efficient, because then your body starts relying on the external caffeine and reduces internal cortisol production. This is more detrimental than you’d expect – it both REDUCES your natural energy levels and makes you more tolerant of caffeine for external stim. You want to drink caffeine during the cortisol valleys, mid-morning and mid-afternoon. This is like any other drug – take it when you need it, not when the symptoms are absent.
- Smoked a curry pork butt today.
- LD50 is the dose which would be lethal for 50% of people.
- Tons of markets suffered (toys, cars, etc) at the end of last week due to trade wars with China, tariffs, Trump tweets to pull production from China, etc.
- Yes, the gelatin in jello and candy is the same gelatin from rendered animal collagen.
- The yahoo_fin module shows that the live stock prices change on the order of magnitude: seconds. It’s not consistent. Sometimes it’s one second. Sometimes it’s 15 seconds.
- James Randi had a show called exploring psychic powers where he made fools of people who claimed to be psychics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldr2JTuHBy0.
- Finance research.
- Joined 3 subreddits: r/investing, r/personalfinance, and r/tax.
- SpaceX should be shielded from gigantic market dip, because fundamentally our product has nothing to do with China, and because we’re a private company, but unfortunately that’s not how the market works. Our valuations will see a decrease from this. I attribute it mainly to how misguided the concept of investment has become. People are not investing because they believe in things, adding value to products they support; they invest as a moneymaking opportunity. They invest for personal financial growth. This lumps the market into a singularity, a big pool representing fluctuating waves of chances, not orthogonal markets representing their respective contributions to society. If investors actually placed money based on virtue, each corner could roller coaster in isolation from the others.
- ETF = exchange traded fund. These are collections of other assets that are grouped to track an index, like the S&P500 ETF does for S&P500.
- “Link in bio” on instagram is annoying af. Just give me the link, don’t shamelessly take 4 seconds to self-promote. You’re intentionally injecting the equivalent of an ad between the customer and their desired content, causing a bad taste in their mouth before consumption. Not smart.
- New Chappelle standup on Netflix.