Doesn’t work. Or at least, didn’t work for me. My parents wouldn’t let me leave the table until I finished my vegetables, and guess what? I learned to hate the act of eating vegetables because it was always such a miserable experience.

One potential idea might be having them help you cook meals. I had a hard time eating a lot of foods before I started cooking them myself (what are those green flecks? what is that weird white-ish sauce?). When I prepped stuff myself, it helped me be more open to eating it (oh, mayonnaise is just oil and egg yolks and…

Brûléed cupcake frosting sounds incredible. Also seems like it would look extremely impressive and fancy without actually taking much effort. I’m all about that life.

I love the translation feature. I’m learning Portuguese - it’s awesome to read a book in Portuguese and use translation to look up words I don’t recognize.

I would be doing nothing but squats all the time. Which, I guess is not that bad of a thing?

Pet peeve of mine - What is up with the giant quotes in the middle of the article which repeat something that’s already been said? I’ve seen other websites use it too, and it always annoys me when I start to read it, and then realize halfway through that I’ve already read it.

I’m pretty sure this advice only makes sense for a certain group of workers. Like self-employed, contractors, upper management, people who work from home - i.e., workers who have a lot of control over what they decide to do during the week. For those of us peons who don’t have to worry about scheduling what to do,…

$50 per year, not per month.

Yep. “I’m 25, make $150k a year, and only have $200k in savings. Am I on track for retirement???”

Yessss, pão de queijo! My wife’s grandma makes the best!

Yes, I know. That’s why I said it could be withdrawn like an ordinary 401k after 65 - not like a Roth IRA. You only get the tax-free benefits if you use it for medical expenses.

I think HSA is strictly superior to 401k if it’s available to you. It has all the benefits of a Roth and a 401k as long as you use it for medical expenses. And if you never end up needing it for medical expenses, you can withdraw from your HSA like it was an ordinary 401k once you hit 65. So I would go:

Same here. Just got back from Disneyland - tough to stay hydrated, even when you’re trying! Options are:

I read a good book called “Cuisine & Empire - Cooking in World History” by Rachel Laudan. Convinced me that the idea of “authentic” cuisine is nonsense. Every culture steals and adapts from other cultures. Cuisine today in almost every country looks almost nothing like it did 700 years ago. For example, tomatoes and…

They have such low interest rates *because* they come with the regulation that you can’t get rid of them in the case of bankruptcy. If you want to pay the regular market interest rate in exchange for being able to get rid of the loan in case of bankruptcy, you could always just take out a conventional loan. Most…

Really though, good employers should just put the match amount into your 401k regardless of what you put in. Always struck me as weirdly paternalistic that employers try to incentivize you to fund your own retirement. And it hurts the people who need retirement savings the most -people with low incomes and people with…

We went a couple years ago for a week - contrary to what I’d expected, everyone in Paris was very polite and helpful, even though we didn’t speak any french. I learned how to say “Do you speak English?” in french, and nearly everyone was happy to switch to English. YMMV, but I wouldn’t stress too much about not…

Season 10 in particular is dedicated to writing a novel, from start to finish. Other seasons have great stuff too, of course.

Amazing how little we really know about nutrition. Seems like every year there is a new study overthrowing some fundamental nutrition fact which I was told by various health teachers/trainers/doctors. In 200 years people will laugh at our understanding of nutrition the same way we laugh at the people who used leeches…

Go see the catacombs! Under the city, there’s an extensive network of tunnels filled with the bones of centuries-dead Parisians. Some of the tunnels are open to tourists. They only allow a limited number of people in at a time, so you want to show up a couple hours early or else buy a “skip the line” pass.