Love your stuff, this is great. Just making dials and sending emails will run laps around all the overkill on AI automation. What are your thoughts on Attio or some of the other AI-native CRMs?
Any thoughts on the cold start populating ICP contacts into a fresh CRM? I'm using Apollo > LeadMagic > ZeroBounce right now and pushing to Attio. This is all for enterprise ICP, almost all outbound focused.
Regarding B - it’s been said Ancient Greece had the highest intellectual output of any society in history. Adjacent Levantine societies also had clustering of intellectual and religious output. It’s as if this area had off the charts SQ, or Spiritual Quotient.
This could due to be genetic, regional, or temporal reasons. Think of the Axial Age: Socrates, Plato, Lao Tzu, the Buddha, Zoroaster, Confucius all living within that period.
Perhaps Jesus’ time was a time of enchantment in the world. Perhaps our world fluctuates with periods of disenchantment and reenchantment
@CyberPunkCortes The hunt scene in War & Peace is my favorite part of the book. The rapid chase with the borzoi concluding at the uncle’s country home is one of the richest scenes in all of Tolstoy’s work.
Vitamin D deficiency is an ignored epidemic, affecting more than 42% of the adult population in the United States. Tanning is one of the best ways to get vitamin D, but another great source is mushrooms. Here are the best ways to maximize vitamin D from fantastic fungi:
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I’m 2 for 2 with babies that I got to sleep through the night by 2 months old. I’ll write a longer post on this but here’s my secret:
Light environment: as simple as a Himalayan salt lamp or red light. No bright lights after 8pm or during night feedings. Morning feeding happens by the window or outside for natural sunlight.
Always do a heavy night feeding at 10pm (as much as they’ll eat)
As their nightly sleep windows increase, rub a little mg chloride spray (I make my own) on the bottom of their feet before they go down for the night. I did this at about the 6 week mark.
Swaddle + sound machine
Blackout curtains in the room are essential.
Red light (sunshine, campfire) penetrates skin, but most artificial lighting (LED, CF) doesn’t. So for 99.99% of human history our organs were bathed in light, but now unless we make a special effort most of our cells sit in darkness
A really simple hack here is to switch (back) to incandescent lightbulbs. Incandescent bulbs basically work by getting a metal filament really hot then letting it radiate; some of what gets released is visible but most is invisible red light. Which is a big part of what we’re missing
Most artificial lighting also has high-frequency flicker (some of the ‘power savings’ of LED come from rapidly switching the light on & off) which seems to increase stress whether we notice it or not; incandescent avoids this too
Something I still need to remind myself of is that windows block UV (& often infrared), and UV is also important for e.g. circadian cues & vitamin D production. So the light environment of sitting on a shaded porch is actually much different than sitting next to a window, even if it feels similar
Fwiw & as far as I can tell, the peaters seem correct about how reducing PUFA makes one less prone to sunburn. I used to get pretty bad sunburns; now (after switching to coconut oil & counting PUFA) I don’t. Benefits here probably start after a few months
Anyway, I think the broad story here is that we think of food as the primary source of energy for the body (& by the numbers it is), but light, heat, & motion are also viable pathways for getting energy into cells, and energy packaged in these forms is extremely efficient for doing certain cellular tasks compared to using calories+nutrients. In particular I think light/heat/motion are very high leverage for reducing vascular microspasms, and that microspasms are a much larger part of our daily hedonic/cognitive challenges than we realize
How I create circadian friendly aesthetics in my home:
Huge windows and ample light (sun rooms)
Antique furniture made from all natural materials
Grouping air filtering plants in clusters
Tasteful antiques and historic tomes scattered throughout the house
@Jessica__Jay@pbprot Yes their wedding invitation said:
Hear ye! Hear ye!
In a most joyous union of pen and parchment, Jonathan Scriptwright and Angela DeScribbler have pledged their quills to one another in matrimony.