My 94 year old grandfather smoked cigarettes from ages 12-80, so cigarettes are they key to longevity. Just kidding! I think the social side of alcohol is more pertinent to their longevity than anything else, but if I make it to 90 I’ll double down on the fireball shots just in case.

This was an intent-to-treat study. They prescribed a keto diet, but found that most people could not sustainably eat at the 20g carbs/day level. This is clinicians trying to study how best to treat obesity. They aren’t saying what Low Carb diet’s effects are, they are saying what prescribing a Low Carb diet results…

Also if you eat 50% less cheesecake it has half the calories, so then you can eat twice as much!

Humans are selfish as hell. Being loved is neat, but its someone else doing the loving, and we don’t really care about someone else. Loving however is magical! It’s us doing the loving, and what is more important than us?!? Give yourself opportunities to love! Friends, family, pets, love on them and see how good…

To be specific - you can learn to use Deep Learning tools in a year. These tools are incredibly powerful and getting better by the day. I’d highly recommend checking them out. You can use these tools to make powerful and accurate classifiers and solve really interesting problems (Object recognition, location, image…

It’s simple. Are you a coffee drinker? Or a coffee user?

Some hidden gems:

As a parent in Texas, the demographics of major city school districts was a huge shock: Dallas: 95.1% minority, Houston: 92.4% minority, San Antonio: 98% minority.

Even without screens I would ignore my kids for 30-90 minutes per day. The only extra problem with screens is that it makes it EASIER to ignore them! If I start ignoring them 4, 6, 12 hours a day their “psychological well-being in terms of caregiver attachment, resilience, curiosity, and positive affect” would…

Disrupt your living room! However, if you find you need a perfect place to I dunno, put your coffee, go norm core and undisrupt with an edgy coffee table.

If you can do 5 things in a day and one of them is bad, try adding another good thing and hope the bad thing falls off the list! It really can work, but unfortunately New Years resolutions in general give just the tiniest spark of motivation, and unless that gets you through the first couple weeks of building a…

My sustainable sources of happiness are:

Your brain craves stimulation, but easily gets overstimulated. Taking a sec to pay attention to something just a little bit stimulating like walking, or drawing exercising, or small talk, or music or whatever really can give you distance from that overstimulated phone attached monster we all devolve into. Then when…

Progression not regression. Your kids are growing at a crazy rate, and have new skills and facilities developing every day. They learn to get to sleep and stay asleep with one set of facilities, but what happens in 2 weeks when they have a whole different set? They have to learn again. Keep providing the…

It is consistent, but its also dumb. The whole point of tax breaks is to encourage activity that has been shown to give high returns for the country as a whole. Education is among the highest of these. Eliminating a tax break that encourages education, so you can decrease taxes on the wealthy is just trading a high…

In a big engineering corporation:

Houston is the okayest place in the world.

Schools, schools, schools. In Texas, urban school districts have basically been re-segregated (Dallas ISD 4.7% white, Houston ISD 7.6% white) and the quality of the education provided to the majority minority students has suffered just as it did with segregated schools historically. The suburbs (including the…

Cleaning is work. Is the work worth it? Yes! but does that mean its not work? NO. There is no magic that makes cleaning up not work. So, do the work, reap the rewards, or don’t. No one cares except your mom.

Ugh, what an awful feeling it is to hear about this from friends, family or your partner. With miscarriages there is grieving process just like losing a family member. You have to give support and love and attention, as well as space. Also attention and space at the same time. There is something comforting about…