To reduce your stress, try not to have strong and loud opinions about everything.
Smart people are selectively ignorant about most things, and focused on some things.
Ditched my Kogan bulbs which were useless for automation. Now using Tapo from TP-Link.
Handy automations
Turn on at Sunset
Switch to red light at a pre-set time
Turn off at a pre-set time
Turn on automatically at sunrise
Away mode where they turn on and off randomly
Worldwide they are poisoning the food supply by mandating the use of Folic acid in flour.
A large portion of the population with the MTHFR gene mutation can’t metabolise folic acid and experience fatigue, anxiety and chronic inflammation.
Studies also link it to a 2.8 times increase risk of prostate cancer.
It blocks natural folate which as Dr Claire Craig says is integral to the functioning of the body. Switching genes on and off. Making DNA and RNA.
Hard not to see a nefarious intent at play.
Synthetic folic acid might be why bread and pasta make so many Americans feel bloated, tired, and moody.
Gary Brecka explained it on The Iced Coffee Hour:
Eat a big bowl of pasta and bread in the US → sleepy, irritable, gut blows up like a tick.
Eat the same in Italy or France (maybe with wine) → you feel amazing and often lose weight.
The difference? The US sprays its entire grain supply with synthetic folic acid. Most of Europe doesn’t.
Since 1998, the US has mandated folic acid fortification. 40-60% of people carry MTHFR gene variants that impair conversion to usable methylfolate, which can lead to digestive issues, mood changes, and inflammation.
What we call “fortified” can quietly cause problems for a large portion of the population.
Have you noticed better digestion with European bread/pasta vs. American versions?
i'm obsessed with AI DIY projects.
my favorite one right now is this broccoli farmer in hokkaido, japan using Codex to run his 100-hectare farm
this guy never studied agriculture, never inherited land, started out as a civil servant.
but he wanted his farm to run better, and instead of paying an engineering firm he couldn't afford, he just built the tools himself.
here's what he's built on his own:
> remote control of his greenhouse vents from a chat app, wired up with an esp32 board, a motor driver, and cloudflare workers
> a bot that checks each greenhouse's temperature and opens the vents when it gets too hot
> satellite crop-health data laid over a map of his own fields
> an airtable base linking his plots, tasks, materials, and sensors
> wiring diagrams of his electrical panels, generated from a photo
stuff like this used to be locked behind machinery and engineers only the big agribusinesses could pay for.
but this legend just breezed past all of it with a laptop and Codex lol
Hot take: Universities charge $300,000 for a degree that teaches you skills any LLM can do for free. At some point we need to have an honest conversation about whether higher education is the greatest individuals misallocation of capital in recent history.
Smart people are the ones who ask the most thoughtful questions, as opposed to thinking they have all the answers. Great questions are a much better indicator of future success than great answers. #principleoftheday
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