Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Your opinion is NOT expertise
After receiving hundreds of tweets and responses from our LF vs LC analysis, if we were to draw a Venn diagram of the following populations: 1. Researchers 2. Non-researchers 3. People misconstruing/denying the results #3 would fully 100% encapsulated within #2.
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Why is diet dogmatic?
More and more I’ve been getting asked: how the hell did/do I eat so many cookies and stay lean? —- A major 8 million dollar study just came out. Spanning 12 months, it tracked 600+ people and split them up into a low-fat (LF) and a low-carb (LC) group. They were given 22 nutrition coaching…
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Introducing the SOL COOKIE and ending the #cookielife…
THE END OF AN ERA… Every birthday my woman makes me six desserts. I don’t even know how we settled on six… I assume five seemed too little, and seven just seemed ostentatious. Last year she threw a curve ball. For the sixth dessert she convinced Milton, purveyor of the insanely delicious Le Gourmand cookies,…
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Be the hub
One of the best things I do for my sanity is host a dinner with other kickass entrepreneurs. Here’s the the thing – it’s not about professional development (which does happen). It’s the social side. The sanity check. At one moment I talked about how entrepreneurship sucks, and everyone in the room nodded – they…
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Dreams are for suckers; smart people aim for the inevitable
I had someone email me the other day and tell me that after reading this site, he was now chasing his dreams. He subsequently asked me how I was able to achieve mine. Don’t view what you want as dreams. Words have implicit associations with them. Dreams are something that are far off; something near…
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