I have never slept next to Kate.
The only thing we do in bed is have sex.
We have separate beds and homes.
Should you do the same? Not necessarily. The science is split. Here's the data:
1) Your partner does wake you up when you sleep together.
7 nights of actigraphy sleep measurement in 55 couples (aged 18 to 72, no sleep disorders) showed about 6 partner triggered awakenings per night, on average. Roughly 1 in 5 of wake ups was set off by the partner stirring first, and participants slept through only about half of their partner’s awake time.
The catch: the study never compared sharing a bed to sleeping alone.
2) Yet couples who sleep together report sleeping better.
A survey of about 1,000 adults found that sharing a bed with a partner tracked with less insomnia, less fatigue, more sleep, and better mental health than sleeping alone.
The catch: self-reported, cross-sectional, no follow-up. Healthier, happier people may simply be the ones more likely to share beds, so this is associative at best.
3) Women's sleep might take the hit from sharing a bed.
A study of 10 couples had each person sleep at least 10 nights alone and 10 nights together. Women slept measurably worse with a partner in the bed, on both actigraphy and their own ratings. Men reported sleeping better, subjectively.
4) Polysomnography, the gold standard for measuring sleep and sleep stages, points to REM gains with co-sleeping.
A study of 12 couples found co-sleeping came with about 10% more REM sleep, less fragmented REM, longer undisturbed REM runs, and tighter sleep-stage syncing between partners, alongside more limb movement.
5) Synced sleep tracks with lower blood pressure and inflammation.
In 46 couples that slept together, the more in sync their sleepwake timing, the lower their sleeping blood pressure (strongest in women) and the lower their inflammation (both sexes). The link held even after adjusting for how often they actually shared a bed, so the driver looks like the synchrony, not sharing the bed.
Only two of these studies compared the same person in both beds, and both are tiny: 10 and 12 couples. One found the result flips by sex. The rest is correlation. The answer is individual. For some couples the shared bed improves sleep. For others, separate beds are the right move.
I so badly want this energy for every municipal, provincial, and federal level of government in Canada. This country is being leeched and suffocated to death by weak minded commie animals. Need Canada’s youth to get fired up like Spencer and put this country back on track to wealth, prosperity, security, and abundance.
Thoughts on SpaceX IPO... wild that space is a commercialized industry. Starlink is what we use at our remote mountain resort, I feel the impact directly and it's phenomenal. Elon is one of the most impactful humans alive, on the level of Edison, Tesla, Ford, and even Oppenheimer. History being made. Millionaires being. Will be interesting to watch the stock price... does it fall like other historical IPOs (facebook, amazon) or does it rocket? Is it just a liquidity event for early shareholders and leave retail holding the bag? Or are you crazy for not holding a piece of the future? Dyson spheres, interplanetary space travel, moon colonies, space cargo... fascinating and inspiring times!
White house fights look awesome. Going to be very entertaining, lots of polarizing characters. All of the fighters are absolute warriors. Takes huge amount guts, grit, and grind to be the man in the arena. And what a historical location. America is electric on so many fronts at age 250... Let's goooo
My wife and I have a thing:
For 29 years, whenever I’ve had a big meeting or presentation, I've told her about it.
And for 29 years, her response has been the same:
“You’ll crush it.”
So I go crush it. See how that works?
Women, you have a superpower... and you're probably not using it enough.
A woman's encouragement means everything to a man. It's a primal dynamic.
We won't ask for it.
We may appear confident and self-assured.
But trust me—we need a woman in our corner.
The largest IPO in history is about to happen and nobody is talking about what comes after it.
Here's why it matters way more than the stock price.
SpaceX goes public June 12. $SPCX on Nasdaq. Targeting $1.75T to $2T valuation. Starlink alone doing $12B+ annual revenue.
But the IPO is just the trigger.
The real story is what happens when thousands of SpaceX employees sitting on equity suddenly have liquid money. Life changing money. And most of them live and work in the South Bay.
I posted about this a few weeks ago. El Segundo is quietly becoming the most important zip code in tech. Varda Space Industries just bought the old Mattel HQ. Anduril is expanding across the South Bay. SpaceX alumni spinning off companies locally. Founders from DeepMind and Apple setting up in the same area.
That was BEFORE the IPO date dropped.
We've seen this movie before.
Google IPO'd in 2004. Mountain View transformed overnight. Facebook IPO'd in 2012 at $104B. Menlo Park real estate doubled. Thousands of newly liquid employees became angel investors. They funded the next wave of companies that came out of the Bay.
SpaceX is about to do the same thing for SoCal. Except the valuation is 17x what Facebook was.
Here's how the cascade plays out.
First order is obvious. Thousands of engineers wake up on June 13 with seven and eight figure brokerage accounts. Paper finally becomes real.
Second order is where it gets interesting. That money flows into South Bay real estate. Prices in El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa are already climbing. But the bigger move is people who spent a decade building rockets deciding to build something of their own. They have runway now. Some angel invest. Some start funds. Some found the company they've been thinking about since year three at SpaceX.
Third order is the one nobody is pricing in. New startups need to hire. They pull talent. That talent stays local. More startups attract more VCs. More VCs bring more capital. The flywheel starts spinning and the South Bay has a self sustaining tech ecosystem that doesn't need SpaceX at all.
That's exactly what happened in the Bay Area. Google and Facebook were the seeds. The ecosystem kept producing long after either IPO stopped mattering.
Watch where the first wave of SpaceX angel checks go.
Watch which neighborhoods fill up with new company offices.
Watch which accelerators pop up around Hawthorne and El Segundo.
The IPO is June 12.
The real returns come from positioning yourself in the path of the capital that follows.
I see the recurrent ragebait of "dont do squats or deadlifts! they are DANGEROUS" has surfaced again
I say this out of love: these are arguments are retarded
There is NO magical form of exercise that is perfectly safe and has a 0% probability of injury ever happening
You can pick ANY recreational activity, and there will be injuries.
-There are people who tear ACLs MCLs achilles playing tennis
-who take up cycling and crash and shatter a knee (or get hemorrhoids)
-Who jog 3x a week and get tendinitis.
-Theres old guys who golfed too much and are now in chronic pain in their elbows
I also cannot take people seriously who argue about safety or "stimulus to fatigue" ratio.
That whole concept is made up BS, peudo quantification by trainers who want to sound smart.
Resistance training, done in a gym, a controlled environment, and you have total agency over the weight and intensity, that is as safe as it gets.
There is also no way to prevent people from using bad form, lifting too heavy, and making stupid training decisions.
There is no exercise you MUST do.
There is also no merit in sternly warning people against exercises that, broadly, work for the majority of the population.
You dont like the barbell? fine, use a different implement.
None of the people making these arguments have any original ideas, I expect to see the ragebait continue.
This my few cents to hopefully spare some of you from the mind virus of fucktardation.
I see the recurrent ragebait of "dont do squats or deadlifts! they are DANGEROUS" has surfaced again
I say this out of love: these are arguments are retarded
There is NO magical form of exercise that is perfectly safe and has a 0% probability of injury ever happening
You can pick ANY recreational activity, and there will be injuries.
-There are people who tear ACLs MCLs achilles playing tennis
-who take up cycling and crash and shatter a knee (or get hemorrhoids)
-Who jog 3x a week and get tendinitis.
-Theres old guys who golfed too much and are now in chronic pain in their elbows
I also cannot take people seriously who argue about safety or "stimulus to fatigue" ratio.
That whole concept is made up BS, peudo quantification by trainers who want to sound smart.
Resistance training, done in a gym, a controlled environment, and you have total agency over the weight and intensity, that is as safe as it gets.
There is also no way to prevent people from using bad form, lifting too heavy, and making stupid training decisions.
There is no exercise you MUST do.
There is also no merit in sternly warning people against exercises that, broadly, work for the majority of the population.
You dont like the barbell? fine, use a different implement.
None of the people making these arguments have any original ideas, I expect to see the ragebait continue.
This my few cents to hopefully spare some of you from the mind virus of fucktardation.
What makes this beautiful is that it appears those are actual structural trusses. Faux beams that are used today simply for aesthetics are ugly because they have no real purpose.
It’s my belief that YOU should decide what’s beautiful. Not politicians🚫 Not planners 🚫 And certainly not your neighbors 🚫
I also believe you should accept your neighbor’s idea of what’s beautiful.
And that, of course, is a lot more difficult.
Messing around with Grok Imagine to render this layout... challenging to say the least. Imagine puts the interior inside an interior lol.
Anyone have any tips to making this look awesome?
Or, go ahead and render this for me using whatever method you like 🙏
Generally agree that this stuff is no good, but I strongly believe that people without kids should not speak on kids health and what parents should or should not do. Until you have a family and understand all the nuance, making statements like this is counterproductive.
Very cool and so fun for the kids. We added a reading nook under the stairs in the great room of our Chilliwack project, so rather than a closed room (a little iffy for young kids) it's open and inviting. Lots of cozy memories to be made!
I built my 3-yr-old an office.
Includes a guitar corner, sketching desk, and all his toys & trucks. With murals all around of some of dad’s projects for hopeful inspiration. It’s a little universe.
And each afternoon, he comes out to work with me :)
Cost about $150 total.