Austin Schlessinger

I talk about optimizing performance and living well | Former @Deloitte consultant turned @Hacker0x01 sales engineer

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@DavidMSalkin Bar Antonio for pintxos!

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@thealexbanks @YarRostam @Microsoft365 Pretty sure you can do this in @piktochart

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@SarahAllali7 Such a good one!

Everyone can use a digital detox every once in a while.

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@Alex_HPL @RealAnttoni @Jaamuru This is exciting news man, congrats!

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@LukeSchless

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@LiamKillingstad @nickywonka So good...

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@LiamKillingstad @DoerflerJared I'm here for it...

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@nateliason What sauna and cold plunge do you have? Would you recommend?

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@LiamKillingstad @beehiiv Twist my arm — subbed 🫡

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@Alex_HPL Yeah they don’t tell you how expensive triathlon is until it’s too late 🤣

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@Alex_HPL Picked up a used Fenix 6 recently and LOVE it

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@mattragland @Jon_Finkel Oof I’m gonna be honest I’ve never done it straight through, but maybe this year is the year…

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@mattragland 💪🏻

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@Jon_Finkel Have my first outdoor ride on the schedule for Sunday…2 hours, but we’re doing it along the beach so I’m hoping that’ll make it slightly more enjoyable

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This might be my new favorite quote — especially relevant as I'm training for an Ironman 70.3.

"Once you decide to do something hard, you aren't in charge anymore. The people in charge are your former self and your future self.

When it gets really hard and life's awful, just remember, your former self decided to do this. Your future self wants you to finish.

Let those two be the guides."

I'm doing an average of 12 hours of swimming, biking, and running per week. About a month into training and all I can say is it is boring.

Not necessarily hard. Just boring — which I guess in and of itself is hard. It's a mental game.

Miles and miles and miles.

• Swimming, staring at the same black line at the bottom of the pool for 60 minutes straight.

• Biking, staring at the little Zwift avatar navigating through Watopia for 90 minute straight.

• Running is always a good time. Especially intervals.

Man the training is monotonous and all but fun. But that's what I signed up for — something hard.

My former self decided to do it though. And damn straight my future self wants to finish.

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h/t to @josephcwells quote of the week.

https://t.co/m3rXOQNDt9

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@heyblake I use AudioPen daily at this point.

• Record voice note
• AudioPen summarizes it
• Zap the summary + appends to GDoc

Highly recommend

cc: @louispereira

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@noahcracknelll Jason Fried on MFM was great

And if you like that one, recommend checking out Ferris's interview of him from 2018

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@noahcracknelll It’s easier when you live in NY/NJ and you have good bagels you can load up on…

But even with that, it’s challenging