Forget the productivity arguments. Not waking up around or before sunrise is a sign of poor health, either mentally or physically.

You know what the name is for someone sleeping past sunrise in the wild?

Breakfast.
When I start habitually sleeping in late, that’s a signal to me something is wrong.

Diet, exercise, exciting work, toxins (alcohol sugar), sunlight, community.

It means I need to fix something.

I don’t buy the “some people are more nocturnal” argument for a second.
Blue light exposure obviously being the biggest and most powerful lever / disruptor here
If you show me 100 people who exercise daily, spend 3+ hours in the sun, have exciting work, have a rich community, don’t drink alcohol or caffeine, who don’t look at a single screen post sunrise and who still sleep in late I’ll change my mind.
This is the best counter argument I’ve seen so far, good point Jefe
And for everyone telling me to read the pop science “Why We Sleep” book...

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Just saw the news about @zapier selling some of their shares to Sequoia at a $4b valuation.

I don’t think I’ve ever been happier to hear company fundraising news.

I owe a huge part of where I am today to Zapier, @wadefoster, and @dannyaway

Short thread 👇
Back in Fall 2014 when I was a senior in college, I knew I wanted to work “on a startup” but had no idea where to start.

I decided to learn content marketing, since then I could at least use the writing skills I developed as a philosophy major.
I started my personal site to show I knew how to “do content,” and after writing a few pieces, decided to try to get some freelance writing gigs.

The first two places I contacted were Buffer and Zapier, since I admired both companies.

Buffer said no, but Zapier said yes.
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I absolutely loved playing Roller Coaster Tycoon growing up.

And only recently found out it was an absolutely incredible video game development project.

👇👇👇
First off, it was wildly successful.

It was the best selling game of 1999 when it was released, and in 2000 as well as 2001 it was the second best selling game of the year (both years behind The Sims).

By 2002, it had sold 4 million copies.
It's the 32nd best selling PC video game of all time, beating Age of Empires, Diablo, and SimCity.

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This year you’ve gotten more:
And that’s because:
I for one have definitely gotten more conservative this year, but I think mostly because the party lines changed
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Why you shouldn't Venmo your friends 👇
We have this belief that before money, we did complicated exchanges amongst one another. One cow for thirty bushels of wheat or whatever.

According to David Graeber in "Debt: The First 5,000 Years," we have no record of that actually being the economic system anywhere pre-money.
Instead, if we were making exchanges with people we knew, we just gave each other stuff and expected that someday they'd help us out too.

I'll share the meat from my hunt with you, you'll help me build a hut when I need a new one.
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One of my favorite mental models for health I picked up from @dranthonygustin

I'll call it "The Deficiency Question"

Basically before you add anything to your body, ask yourself:

Do I have a deficiency in this thing?
For example, Vitamin D.

Vitamin D is a supplement everyone can, and probably should, take, because Vitamin D is something most of us are painfully deficient in.

Being deficient in it causes all sorts of terrible health outcomes, so that supplement seems like a good thing.
But what about something like skin moisturizer.

Does your body have a "moisturizer deficiency"?

No, that's silly. You're probably just making other lifestyle choices leading to dry skin that you should address instead.
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Alright I've been working on this for the last couple weeks, and I'm really excited to announce a new Membership for my blog!

Here's everything it includes 👇
First, I want anyone curious to have the opportunity to check it out, so you can use the code "FREEMONTH" at checkout to get the first month free.

Sign up link is at: nateliason.com/sign-up

Alright, on to what it includes:
Monthly Members Hangouts!

Each month I'm going to do a private zoom with members to answer any questions, discuss recent articles or medleys, share any new tools I'm enjoying, and more.
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