Alright, you know what, I'm done with alcohol.

It's addictive, toxic, depressing, fattening, and a big negative in my life.

If anyone *ever* sees me drinking alcohol again, I want you to tell me you're disappointed in me.
I don't have a serious problem with alcohol, but that's part of the problem.

It's disruptive enough I notice its effects, but not so disruptive that it's causing serious harm.

Which is why it's so bad: it can sneak in where a bit of drinking feels fine. But it's not fine.
Poor sleep, organ stress, extra calories, muscle repair, brain harm...

Missing years of my future kids' lives...

There are tons of downsides to continuing to consume it and no irreplaceable benefits.
Despite being good about cutting it out for 1-2 months at a time, it always slips back in, so I'm just gonna cut it out entirely.

It's definitely getting easier now, too, with all the good alcohol-free replacements and better substances available.
Really appreciate @theSamParr for giving me the nudge with his latest, very personal, podcast episode:

open.spotify.com/episode/5tVzQh…
And Twitter friends I often see in person: @jwmares @dranthonygustin @cathrynlavery @LeverCraftCoffe @kmodares @myles_snider @MorganWeeks2 @BrennerSpear @CantHardyWait @SparksRemarks @david_perell @adilmajid @NickYoder86 you're all encouraged to tattle on me here if I cheat ❤️

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11 May
Alright, so, time for a VERY painful story about how in my excitement about learning solidity yesterday I made a mistake that let someone steal $30,000 from me.

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When you're doing Solidity development, you need some way to interface with the network to deploy contracts, the easiest way being through MetaMask.

So, mistake 1, I used my normal MetaMask account to get set up.
Then in order to deploy anything, you need to have your MetaMask seed mnemonic in your code somewhere so you can sign the deploy, etc.

For any non-crypto people: you need to put a bank password in your code.

And I used a bank account with money in it.
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9 May
Something I've been thinking about with DeFi recently is how you could use yield farming & staking to diversify your investments across L1s / L2s while making some money along the way

👇👇👇
Say you're bullish on @0xPolygon, but you also don't want to stop buying into Ethereum.

Well one option would be to move some money over to the Polygon network, buy a combination of Matic and Ether, provide those as liquidity on @SushiSwap, and then stake your LP tokens.
By doing this you're buying a combination of Ether / Matic so you have upside if either or both go up.

You also have some hedge if one goes up but the other doesn't.

And you're earning Sushi / Matic along the way by providing liquidity to SushiSwap.
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29 Apr
So... is there a baby formula that isn't full of industrial seed oils?

Because I started doing research and wow this is not good.
Here's a list of the "8 best baby formulas" that pops up when you search for "best baby formula"

Every single one has at least one type of seed oil, and many have corn syrup as well:

babylist.com/hello-baby/bes…
Here's another guide focused on organic, "safe" baby formula.

Aaaand it's all seed oil again:

gimmethegoodstuff.org/safe-product-g…
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21 Apr
Okay I rather like this response to mine and ⁦@jeffnobbs⁩ articles.

They’re kinda gentle on the canola oil part, but still pretty fair.

Either way getting mentioned in GQ is cool. gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/arti…
Always worth remembering though that Crisco came out in 1910 and trans fats weren’t outlawed till the 2000s.

Awareness of how bad things are for us takes a very long time if you don’t use heuristics or understand what’s going on at a mechanistic level.
And writers like me have very little to gain by shitting on Oatly so much.

We just want people to stop hurting themselves and their children.
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9 Apr
I released a big update to my @RoamResearch course today.

There are now two versions:

"Just the basics" and the full course.

Both include 2.5 hours of brand new content on learning Roam from "Roam in a Day" filmed a couple weeks ago!
Check them out here! effortlessoutput.com
All previous buyers have all the new content. You should have an email about it!
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