Friday Roundup - 1/6/2023
Some of the interesting content I've consumed this week
Last night, walking on the treadmill at the gym (which I don’t do as often as I should), I was watching a health-and-nutrition themed podcast, and I had a thought:
I can’t always write about all the stuff I take in that I find fascinating, but I can certainly share the links with readers in case they’re interested in the same thing.
So was re-born the idea of the Friday Roundup, something I started early on in the days of 1P5, only to drop it later when it didn’t get much traction and turned out to be a bunch of extra work.
But I realized something, moving at my Ogre’s pace on the rotating belt to nowhere: I can just start dropping interesting links into a post I make at the beginning of the week, and publish it on Fridays, and I don’t need to stick a lot of commentary in there with it. I’m always looking for somewhere to save this stuff, and while I make no promises that any of it will be of interest to you, it’s there if you want it. I tend to read/watch a good bit about content creation, business development, health & wellness, science/tech, and cultural stuff. It’s eclectic, just like this Substack. Feel free to disregard if it’s not of interest to you.
So here goes! Let me know what you think of this idea in the comments.
Videos:
Doctor Tim Spector: The Shocking New Truth About Weight Loss, Calories & Diets [Diary of a CEO]
I quit social media and nothing happened (except everything) [Sam Massi]
Get RICH in the A.I. Revolution [Alex Hormozi]
Take it Down a Notch [Vlogbrothers]
Tony Robbins' Life Advice Will Change Your Future — Most Underrated Speech
Articles:
Have a great weekend, everyone!
"Physicist Says The Laws Of Physics Don't Actually Exist "Like Peeling An Infinite Onion, The More We Peel, The More There Is To Peel.""
I think this is fundamentally correct. All that exists in science is observation and theory (experimentation and hypotheses are just parts of one or the other). We observe facts, and we invent theories to explain them. There is nothing else. The whole idea of "law" is an arrogant conceit which says there is no further need to peel because a theory is so exact and fundamental it will never be amended. That's a fool's view.
So evolution is an observed fact (if you argue otherwise you will end up with the Omphalos Hypothesis and - if you are a religious believer - a lying deceiving Creator). We invent theories to explain evolution: acquired characteristics, natural selection, sexual selection, punctuated equilibria, and more. In fact, to denigrate an idea as "only a theory" is total ignorance, because an as-yet unfalsified and widely accepted theory is the highest form of human knowledge after divine revelation. All else is just opinion.