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A picture from my life:

Highly recommend taking a BAE Boat out for a few hours on the Alameda channel. Reminds me of the time when we took a boat out on Lake Como in Italy, except you can’t jump in the water in Alameda.

A thing on my mind:

I can’t believe I’m 38 and a half. I was watching clips from the guy who stops older people on the street and asks them what it feels like to be their age. One person said something like, “I don’t feel old on the inside, but on the outside I look old so that’s how the world treats me.” I don’t look old yet, but that dissonance would bother me.

The 30s did hit me pretty hard. I was telling someone you know you’re getting old when you wake up feeling like you got hit by a bus even though all you did was go to sleep the night before. That’s how I felt every morning in my early 30s until I started stretching. I remember when I used to make fun of the OGs on the basketball court for needing to stretch, now I’m one of the OGs stretching all the time, except I’m called “Unc” not OG, which is way less cool-sounding.

I’m grateful I have older role models to help prepare me for what’s to come. On Sundays there’s a group of 65+ folks who play basketball at my gym. The oldest guy there is in his 80s and he still runs from the top of one 3-point line to the other, getting touches catching, passing and sometimes even shooting the ball. He told me if you want to keep playing basketball, you have to keep doing basketball movements. Even when you’re on vacation, do some loading, jumping, lateral running, etc. because when you get older the body is more eager to say, “Ok, guess we’re not doing that anymore.”

Outside of stretching daily, I’ve also had to sleep more, eat clean, lose weight, and build strength and flexibility. It’s a lot of work, and you still lose at the end. “Father Time is undefeated.” I was joking with another OG on the basketball court that we have to do way more just to do the same things we used to do. I spend way more time stretching and strengthening just so I can play a few hours of basketball, for example. The experience of aging is how the universe makes sure that you don’t take anything for granted.

On the flip side, it’s not all that bad. The plus of getting older is that I’m much easier on myself now. My theory is that there’s a pain threshold you need to hit in order for change to happen. I only started taking my physical health seriously when I realized I was spending more time managing pain, illness, and fatigue than I was living. The same is happening for my mental health. After years of beating myself up for not being good enough, it’s finally starting to feel like it all hurts too much. I used to be proud of my stupid high pain tolerance, but not so much now if that makes it harder to change who you are.

I enjoy watching and admiring my friends as we all age together at the same rate. I remember us when we were 18, 28, and now 38. Most of us were, and still are, driven to perform at a high level. The nature of the drive may have changed, and we’ve ended up at different places in life, but we are all still pretty much the same people. Rather than constantly telling myself that I’m not good enough in this way or that, I’m finding myself saying there are a million ways to succeed and believing it because I’ve seen it. And of course, there are a million ways to define success.

I remember reading a book called The Monk and the Riddle back in college. I don’t remember much of it other than the takeaway to pursue a life that is true to you. I enjoyed it at the time because I felt like I didn’t like the academic game. When I talked to the upperclassmen who came back from their coveted internships, I realized those jobs were just another version of the same academic game. What spoke to me instead was to make up my own game, which I did by starting companies. But every game needs a way to keep score. The challenge has been keeping the score the score — part of what makes the game interesting — and not an indictment of my worth. What matters is staying fiercely committed to and convicted in my potential, whatever the score says.

A piece of content I recommend:

1. The Score on 99% Invisible

Speaking of games and keeping score, the idea comes up all the time in my work on Flow Club. Some kinds of scorekeeping enhance the playing experience, others can become detrimental. This is an easy listen that talks about it.

2. Knicks Give Their City Something New: Impossible Joy by Matt Flegenheimer from the NYTimes

It felt like an inevitability before the series began that the 7’6 Alien would assume his basketball throne ahead of schedule, but then Big Body Brunson and the Knicks played incredible basketball to give New York something they’ve been waiting for for 53 years. The best thing about this NBA championship is all the media that came from it, like this NYTimes article, this video, and these photos.

3. The Greatest Season in Baseball History on Baseball Doesn’t Exist

All about Shohei Ohtani’s time in Japan. How he told Japanese teams not to draft him because he wanted to go to America, and a team drafted him anyway but ended up putting him on a two-way player development plan that prepared him to do what he’s doing today in the Big Leagues.

4. How to feel more secure from The Gray Area with Sean Illing

This podcast interviews Amir Levine who wrote the book on Attachment Theory about how to feel more secure. His suggestion aligns with what I’ve naturally done over the years to just gravitate towards people who can be what he calls “CARRP” — Consistent, Available, Responsive, Reliable, Predictable. There are people who can be that and others who for whatever reason just can’t. Instead of being upset, simply move towards people who can.

5. When you can’t help but thrive by me on the Flow Club Blog

We’ve always thought about Flow Club as a “space” and not just a website or a digital product, and my job is to invite everyone I can to this space we are hosting so you can experience how being part of the right space can transform your life. Wrote a bit about the idea.

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As always, you can find out what I’m thinking in more real-time on Twitter and my essays are on my website. My primary focus (and where I focus) is on Flow Club.

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A picture from my life:

We went to the Bixby Bridge in February and saw these three guys got out of the car looking suspicious and walked quickly towards the middle of the bridge. I yelled “ARE YOU GUYS GONNA JUMP!?” and one of them turned around and told me to shush 🤫 because YEP!

A thing on my mind:

Did you know the word “pollyanna” came from a 1913 novel about a poor orphan girl? One Christmas, Pollyanna was expecting a doll from the charity box, but got a pair of small crutches instead. That’s when her father taught her “The Glad Game” — find something to be glad about in every situation, no matter how bleak. In the case of the crutches, Pollyanna decides that she’s glad because she doesn’t need them! That’s just the beginning — her life gets bleak. Pollyanna’s father dies, she’s mistreated by her aunt, and eventually she’s hit by a car that leaves her paralyzed. Through it all, she plays The Glad Game, and it rubs people the wrong way because she’s annoyingly positive in light of all the adversity.

The more I read about it, the more I admire Pollyanna and dislike how our society turned her name into an insult for people who are excessively optimistic. That’s exactly the position of her evil aunt! I admit to having made the same disclaimer in conversation, saying something like, “not to be pollyannish, but…” as if it’s so important to disclaim to be taken seriously... “Y so srs?” 🤡

I’m drawn to people who are like Pollyanna — people who can seem naive, almost child-like. They're quick to love, quick to feel joy, quick to get excited, as if nothing bad can ever happen to them. Being around them feels easy in a way I can't fully explain. Maybe it’s because they live like the big kids I believe we are. I think about this often because I can feel my inner child craving the same freedom to just be, but instead I push him down to protect him from the world. Maybe I learned sadness far too young and I’m still responding to it.

One of these sickeningly optimistic friends once said to me, “I’m just a lucky person,” and I thought he was delulu. But the more time I spend with him, the more I see it’s a belief rooted in how he lives. Where I might spot something bad on the horizon, he doesn’t even notice bad things that have already happened. When something does register, he reflexively spins any situation into a lucky one. When bad things inevitably strike and hurt him, they don’t stick. He might get down briefly, but he moves on quickly by noticing the next lucky thing to break his way. It’s remarkable.

I marvel at these kinds of people. Maybe they were raised well. I imagine a kid trying something, it goes wrong, and they look up. If what they see — over and over, hundreds of times — is a face that says “you’re okay, I’ve got you, keep going,” they internalize that. Not as a lesson they can articulate, but as a felt sense that the world meets their stumbles with support rather than punishment. After enough reps of that, they stop needing to look up. “I know I will always be okay” just becomes part of their core beliefs.

But even if you weren’t blessed with that kind of childhood, or if life has knocked it out of you, you can still build it yourself. I’ve done it with health. “I’m a fit and healthy person” is part of my core belief now, even though it didn’t come pre-installed in any way. I used to believe I’d always be weak and sickly. I just started wanting to believe in a different story, practiced healthy habits, felt the benefits reinforcing that belief, and at this point, even with occasional setbacks, I never question that I’m fit and healthy. If practice can rewrite that story, it can rewrite others.

That’s the lesson from Pollyanna. The Glad Game didn’t come easy to her either. When her father introduced the game, she couldn’t see anything to be glad about getting crutches. She said, “the harder ’tis, the more fun ’tis to get ’em out; only⁠—only sometimes it’s almost too hard⁠—like when your father goes to Heaven.” She still found a way to be glad. Her belief finally broke when she was hit by a car. Lying in the hospital bed, paralyzed, she couldn’t find anything to be glad about. That’s when the people she’s touched throughout her life showed up to tell her how much her Glad Game had changed them — and that restored her faith.

So I’m learning to let the kid come out and play, and to keep playing even when it’s hard. Like Pollyanna in the hospital, I’m lucky to be surrounded by people who laugh with me, who appreciate the kid in me, who have huge and loving hearts, and who model for me every day how to be the big kid I want to be.

A piece of content I recommend:

Shrinking Season 3 on Apple TV

I recommended Season 1 and 2, and now I recommend Season 3.

Bonus Content: How EJAE Wrote The Biggest Songs for KPOP Demon Hunters on Daniel Wall

This is in the category of “world-class people nerding out about their craft” that I enjoy watching. The connection to Pollyanna is that EJAE said “writing positive songs is actually really hard because you can get on the edge of being kind of cringey.”

Bonus Content 2: The Most Exciting Tournament In Sports on Baseball Doesn’t Exist

I really enjoyed this year’s World Baseball Classic. It’s still very possible this tournament completely goes away if Major League Baseball doesn’t figure out how to align everyone’s incentives to play full force, so I’m grateful I got to watch it.

Bonus Content 3: Shohei Ohtani’s Dream Sheet

This went viral late last year on X. Shohei used the Harada Method to map out the 8 pillars he needed to achieve his goal and the 8 actions to take to achieve each pillar. The best part is how he explicitly worked on his “karma.” That’s how you bend the universe to your will.

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When Shohei Ohtani was a high school freshman, he created a detailed "dream sheet" with one central goal: to be the #1 draft pick for 8 NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) teams. It was a 64-cell roadmap based on a framework called the Harada Method. Here's exactly what Shohei

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Bonus Content 4: David and I both wrote something about AI recently. David FaceTimed his 19-year-old self to talk about how we can make anything now and yet…we are overthinking too much of it still? I wrote about burning out from trying to get AI to be my all-capable assistant.

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As always, you can find out what I’m thinking in more real-time on Twitter and my essays are on my website. My primary focus (and where I focus) is on Flow Club.

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A picture from my life:

I went to two more Dodgers games since the last newsletter. That’s three games this season!

A thing on my mind:

What is your objective function?

The most important question just got more important in the age of AI.

In our roles now as AI supervisors, our ability to benefit from this abundant intelligence depends on how clearly we define our goals. We need precise prompts and a clear sense of what success looks like. We have to know what we want.

And…if you don’t know your objective function, you are someone else’s objective. Just like how social media algorithms are trained to maximize our time spent on their platforms against our better judgment, soon enough everyone and everything we interact with in the world will leverage AI to carry out their goals. We won’t stand a chance unless we know what we want.

I recently caught up with a friend who runs a non-profit and barely takes a salary. I asked her why not increase her salary now that it’s successful. She said something to the effect of, “What’s the point of that if you’re already doing it for the mission?” The way she said it, her clarity of purpose stuck with me.

My co-founder David is similar. He’s deliberate. When he commits, it’s 200%. David practices “full send” as a matter of habit. I make fun of him for speaking in a definitive manner on questions that I didn’t think warrant a period instead of a question mark, but I know his strategy is to constantly force clarity.

Most people I know, myself including, could use more clarifying of their objective function. It’s frustrating to hear friends say they want something only to watch them act in ways that look like self-sabotage.

My weight loss journey is like that. I’ve been tracking my weight since I was 22 because I’ve been wanting to lose weight since I first experienced a dramatic weight gain at 16.

As you can see, every year or two I’d go on a diet, lose weight, plateau, and give up. This went on until February 2023, when my “why” finally became clear. I wrote about it in “Pain avoidance machines (Ricky Weekly #94).” The gist is that the pain from carrying all the extra weight finally crossed an unbearable threshold. I couldn’t give my best to the things I care about. Later that year, when I read Peter Attia’s Outlive and came across his question—“Do you want to be able to pick up a grandchild?”—that solidified my resolve. I want to live life to the fullest for as long as possible because life is too good to half-ass.

Pain avoidance machines (Ricky Weekly #94)

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Thinking about times in my life when I’ve achieved major clarity, most required being pushed to the brink. That’s not ideal. You don’t want to need extreme circumstances to gain clarity.

I wish you could achieve clarity just by thinking longer, but, at least for me, that just falls way short. The next best thing is to act as if you are clear. Be like David. Use periods instead of question marks even if you are not sure. Behave like someone who knows what they want, and soon enough you’ll find out if it’s true because you’ll be moving. On the flip side, if you are not acting according to your wishes or haven’t gotten what you want (assuming it’s within your control), maybe it’s time to update your objective function.

Of course, life doesn’t always have to be so goal-oriented. Part of the fun is letting life reveal itself at its own pace. Goals are just how we play by exercising agency. The good news is that AI will lower the cost of acting as if. Our AIs will try to understand what we want even if we’re not sure, act as if on our behalf, and return with results to help us see if that’s what we wanted in the first place.

Here is a funny clip on acting as if and learning about yourself:

A piece of content I recommend:

Joe Liemandt - Building Alpha School, and The Future of Education on Invest Like the Best

Tech Twitter has been buzzing about Alpha School for a while. I first read a parent’s detailed review and thought it was great, and then this episode dropped and became a conversation topic amongst friends. As someone who brute-forced school and never thrived in that environment, there is nothing about the way school works that I’m tempted to keep other than the peer socialization component (especially the “welcome to the jungle” part). I’ve never had “that teacher” who changed my life / believed in me / saw my potential. I’ve never felt engaged. If models like Alpha School existed, I think I would’ve loved it.

Bonus Content: What Is Man, That Thou Art Mindful Of Him? on Astral Codex Ten

A funny post about building AI.

Bonus Content 2: The 3 Best Core Exercises on Squat University

I’ve been dealing with recurrent lower back issues until I started doing the McGill’s Big 3 every morning. Now when I sit, stand and move, I can feel my core engaged. That’s a new sensation for me even though so many people have told me to engage my core over the years while doing various exercises.

We have such different lived experiences that words fail us. It’s like when a dance teacher tells you to move your body a certain way and you’re like, “I didn’t even know it was possible to move your body like that…”

Other examples: I used to hate walking and never understood hiking as a hobby. Then I lost weight, my thighs stopped chafing and I started walking normally. Now I love hiking! I used to feel like I can’t control my eating. Then I eliminated most ultra-processed foods and simple carbs and realized that I can as long as I don’t consume things that hijack my brain!

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As always, you can find out what I’m thinking in more real-time on Twitter and my essays are on my website. My primary focus (and where I focus) is on Flow Club.

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A picture from my life:

The Dodgers were in town! It’s been forever since I’ve been to a Dodgers game. I go to lots of Warriors games, Giants games, and even went to a Valkyries game for the first time recently but NOTHING compares to cheering for YOUR team!

A thing on my mind:

I’ve been thinking about what it means to set healthy boundaries.

Without them, life’s daily “elements” seem to erode my sense of self. Boundaries are signals that I know what I need and that I value myself enough to communicate those needs clearly.

I used to think people who are sensitive about boundaries have limited capacity or adaptability. If someone got upset by harsh feedback, I’d think, “They just can’t handle the truth!” If someone needed personal space, I’d dismiss it as “rigid and inflexible.” If someone bulldozed others with their agenda, I’d label it “selfish.” I’m realizing that’s not it and wow was I judgy.

I wasn’t entirely wrong, though. Like a lot of people, childhood was painful. It felt like the world just wouldn’t stop hurting me, and no one answered my cries for help. At some point, I decided boundary-setting was a useless exercise. Instead, I needed to develop the capacity for pain and learn to adapt to any situation. You can imagine then when I met people who acted like everyone needed to respect their boundaries, I’d think, “wow it’s so unfair that they get to ask to be treated differently.” It’s even more infuriating when people would comply, myself including. I never got that treatment.

I’m realizing now though that just like capacity-building is a skill, adaptability is a skill, so is boundary-setting. Boundary-setting might be the more important skill because it isn’t just about survival; it’s about thriving. You get to learn what you need and demand it from the world. It’s giving main character energy.

For me, setting healthy boundaries involves:

1. Noticing when a boundary is being crossed

2. Confirming it’s genuinely a boundary issue and not just temporary discomfort

3. Establishing the boundary clearly to the offender

Noticing

The girl I’m dating is good at checking in with me to ask me if I’m okay with a plan or what we’re doing. She knows I’m eager to please but can get grumpy if I don’t get what I need. Her simple questions reveal how often I overlook my own discomfort. I usually struggle with answering if I’m okay, because I’m not sure! Instead, I default to the people-pleasing, “yeah, I’m okay” or even fake some enthusiasm to avoid disappointing people who want me to be happy. I’m sure we all do this from time to time. Still, her check-ins give me a chance to register if there’s an incongruence or unmet need.

Confirming

Even when I notice discomfort, it’s still difficult to tell what is a boundary and what is just a fleeting emotion (eg HALT: Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired) or something I can adapt to. For example, if travel disrupts my morning routine, is that boundary-breaking or can I simply adjust what I do? If someone’s comment hurts me, should I say something or am I too sensitive? If I complain, do I become the insufferable one?

Clear boundaries requires clearly knowing what I’m willing to fight for. It's taken years and considerable self-sabotage to realize that maintaining my self-confidence is a critical boundary to being who I want to be. If a physical injury is your body telling you you’ve gone too far, my emotional resilience has kept my mind from telling me I’ve injured my heart.

Establishing

Noticing and confirming boundaries leads inevitably to the hardest step: communicating them. I'm relatively comfortable communicating the uncomfortable (“I feel” statements help). The difficulty lies in the decision itself—deciding that I'm worth fighting for. If I don’t value or trust myself, I won’t genuinely advocate for myself. I have to believe deeply that “I deserve to be me” and can occupy proper space in the world. I’m practicing this now.

Acknowledgements

This was hard to write because I’m still processing it, but recent interactions with these friends have deeply influenced me:

• Jason coached me to “let Ricky cook” by getting out of my own way. His story about being too resilient to physical pain in gymnastics made me wonder if emotional resilience could similarly become harmful.

• Ryan reminded me that my younger self balanced thoughtfulness with bold, intuitive action. He used to say, "Protect your swag!" Today I think the kids would use the word “aura.”

• Kat and Amanda: Going on trips with them this summer opened my eyes to what healthy boundaries can look like.

• Nikil: For writing about how to live a confident life and setting a good example of someone who knows his worth.

Even random sports podcasts have influenced me (probably Baader-Meinhof):

Jeremy Lin said he should’ve spoken up earlier to Kevin McHale. Gary Sheffield said speaking up against rookie hazing taught him that he can demand respect.

“I guess I got my swagger back!” - Jay Z

A piece of content I recommend:

The Materialist written and directed by Celine Song (Past Lives)

Past Lives was my favorite movie of 2024, so I had to watch Celine Song’s latest—and it did not disappoint! Past Lives explored longing for a multiverse of what-ifs. all those coulda, woulda, shouldas we carry until we surrender and embrace the present. The Materialist dives into the infinite possibilities of the present and how we struggle to decide what’s truly right for us. “Dating is hard and love is easy,” but can—or should—you trust what’s “easy” when your brain tries to protect your heart by trying to check all the boxes?

Bonus Content: Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Then a Moment of Grace Changed His Life from The Interview, New York Times

When this interview dropped, my friend Katie and I both separately listened to it right away. Then Katie called me and I said, “Ocean Vuong on The Interview!?” She was like, “Yessssssssss.” That’s how good it was.

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As always, you can find out what I’m thinking in more real-time on Twitter and my essays are on my website. My primary focus (and where I focus) is on Flow Club.

This is where I share 3 things every week with my friends and anyone else interested.
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A picture from my life:

I went on a bachelorette party trip! I feel special being part of a bridal party. Boys and girls can be so different it’s a fun topic to think about.

A thing on my mind:

Whenever I’m down about work, I like to say to myself, “I CHOSE this.” It’s a powerful reminder of my tremendous luck and privilege to do what I love to do, and that I can always choose something else.

Then I ask myself if I still love what I do. People have asked me, “is this your life’s work?” I hope it’s not that serious. Sounds like a trick question to me, as if we are only meant to do one thing. My answer is always, “who knows!”

I fell in love with startups in college. 15 years later, I know much more about it and I still love it. Most days I wake up excited because I get to do something challenging that has potential to teach me something about how to shape our world. Business is a big, competitive game with very few rules that affords me maximum degrees of freedom and scorekeeping to tell me what I’m made of. Can I fall out of love with it at some point? Sure. It’s really hard and I’ve sacrificed a ton. So I have to always be checking to make sure it’s still worth it.

Am I good at it? No. Not yet, at least. I’m not nearly as good as I believe I could be. One of the hazards of this job is that you can’t easily get the reps to improve a particular skill (ie if your startup isn’t scaling, you don’t get to work on hiring skills). Another one is that the actually important skills are too meta* and hard to work on (eg seeing opportunities and knowing how to capture them). Either way, regardless of how good you get, luck plays a very significant role in the outcome, which makes this all very unsettling but also very appealing. You have to constantly be working to figure out what actually matters for your business, charting paths to your best ability for those around you, and being willing to run full speed ahead of everyone knowing where you’re going is most likely off the cliff.

Should you succeed as a founder, you’d have created a system. You can hire employees to operate with reduced uncertainty for a predictable result, and they get to showcase and refine their skills in that context to produce the result more effectively. But at the end of the day, the uncertainty is only reduced for everyone in the system to the extent the business is successful. Job security is a fantasy. Markets are alive and changing faster than ever. Just over the last few years we went from one of the longest bull markets in tech to massive layoffs due to economic uncertainty and AI disruption. The founders are the ones staying up every night in good times and bad studying the market and thinking about the customers to figure out how to move in the direction of opportunity. Founders trade certainty and security for resilience and agency.

Still, founder life is hard. I’m plagued by insecurities. What’s been useful for me over the years is to stop believing in the successful founder archetypes. Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. Jeff Bezos. Mark Zuckerberg. Elon Musk. Their successes have led to an entire industry pattern matching for roughly the same type of brilliance: intellectual horsepower/rigor, precociousness, brazenness/daring, visionary-ness, a little unhinged with a side of the tism. As an ambitious nerd, this is admittedly what made Silicon Valley feel like home to me. These are qualities historically undervalued by society. But it’s a trap to think they’re the only attributes that hold any predictive power. For too long I’ve discounted many of my strengths for not matching up to this archetype. Now I know better. Among all the pattern matching, founders and companies need to be differentiated enough to win. I think for me to really do that well, I need to embrace who I am.

*Footnote: the “meta” skill of business is not so meta according to this article by Cedric Chin. It’s a different type of learning that you can think of as “sensemaking” — useful when learning from real world experiences where feedback loops are noisy, delayed, might not even exist. There are ways to get better at “sensemaking” through constant reflection and being agile enough about updating your priors. Here’s a related article from Brian Lui on the dangers of tight feedback loops. Really, really cool stuff.

A piece of content I recommend:

Why Relationships Die & Which Ethnicity is WORST in Divorce on Flagrant by Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh

I’m a new fan of Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh, so I’ve been gobbling up all their content. The podcast’s pretty sweet. Good comedians have superpowers because they can cross the line and take conversations to places they don’t normally go. The topic of divorce is not something people like to talk about and here’s two and a half hours of it in exhilarating depth with a wide variety of perspectives. Another good episode is the one with 50 Cent talking about…Diddy. Yup. They’ve also talked to politicians like Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Eric Adams, Vivek Ramaswamy if you’re into that.

Bonus Content: I have a bunch this time, so a sentence to introduce each.

• If you love San Francisco, you’ll love this explainer of SF’s map and how it came to be.

• This is like Jiro’s Dreams of Sushi but for ramen lovers.

• A Chinese YouTuber interviews her grandfather about growing up in the communist revolution. I think this is a pretty rare first-hand account.

• A very adept conversation about trauma between Peter Attia and Jeff English.

• A fun reminder that we are the source of our problems (and the title of this newsletter).

• If you’re looking to eat better, Eric Topol interviews Kevin Hall who used to be a Senior Investigator at the NIH and looked into ultra-processed foods, among other things in our food environment.

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As always, you can find out what I’m thinking in more real-time on Twitter and my essays are on my website. My primary focus (and where I focus) is on Flow Club.