tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52785586645367932092024-03-05T20:49:41.835-08:00tedslocumTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-85091447091455362582018-11-28T13:40:00.002-08:002018-11-28T13:40:54.378-08:0010 Salad Freeroll (Part 1)I wanted to both spice it up in the kitchen a bit and get back on the healthy train, so I posted a freeroll on freeroll.io giving my friend Andy a chance at $50 if I didn't make, eat, and post 10 unique and healthful salads in a span of 4 days.<br />
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First up:<br />
Ingredients: Spinach, onion, cherry tomatoes<br />
Dressing: OO, balsamic, and fancy mustard<br />
Score: 6/10, simple, healthy, easy to make<br />
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Second down the hatch:<br />
Ingredients: Lettuce (francesa), roasted butternut squash, blue and blackberries, onion, avocado<br />
Dressing: OO, balsamic<br />
Score: 8/10, nice creamy texture, flavorful<br />
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Third up - Caprese for breakfast:<br />Ingredients: Half spinach, half arugula, basic, one fried egg, onion, cherry tomatoes<br />
Dressing: Egg (yoke) and the OO it was fried in<br />
Score: 7/10, good but it is going to take a while to get used to eating salads for breakfast again.<br />
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Fourth: Stir Fried Salad<br />
Ingredients: Half spinach, half lettuce, one (whole) fried onion, fried cherry tomatoes, and fried basic (all fried with fancy mustard and chili powder)<br />
Dressing: OO (and the fried left-over juice)<br />
Score: 7/10, the fried stuff had a very nice flavor, the basil was tasty, but I didn't like the texture of the salad overall<br />
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Fifth: Raw<br />
Ingredients: Spinach, raw broccoli, carrot, and cherry tomato<br />
Dressing: OO<br />
Score: 6/10, broccoli is quite flavorful, but just very plain. <br />
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<br />Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-73957582970108589982018-02-08T06:07:00.001-08:002018-02-08T06:07:46.103-08:00WIL yesterday #3<p dir="ltr">A good thing about arguing and then making up is that the next time it happens you l that everything will be alright when you wake up the next morning. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><u>You</u> might not feel it the moment while arguing, but you know it on an unconscious level. </p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-36463275315540745552018-02-07T17:45:00.001-08:002018-02-07T17:45:23.843-08:00Yet again <p dir="ltr">Again upon entering the United States I am welcomed by helpful strangers.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It is great speaking the same language and culture. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Good to be home. </p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-75200882474107312692018-02-06T16:05:00.001-08:002018-02-06T16:05:04.409-08:00A cool thought about evolution...<p dir="ltr">... is that it programmed us for to keep improving. </p>
<p dir="ltr">But that also comes bundled with loss of perspective. We get anxious when today is lightly worse than yesterday without seeing the big beautiful picture. That is sad. </p>
<p dir="ltr">BUT evolution also gave us reason. With this power we can know our bias and work to overcome it.</p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-1018573230024034062018-02-05T15:05:00.001-08:002018-02-05T15:05:45.809-08:00A case for AI being under-appreciated<p dir="ltr">Anthropromorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to objects. </p>
<p dir="ltr">We do this all the time - in our thinking, stories, jokes, and dreams. And often times we don't realize we are doing it. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Even many things we think of as fundamental are in reality not facts about the world so much as they are facts about humans.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I think there is a Shakespeare quotes that goes something like "Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so."</p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-35910692486181218972018-02-04T14:33:00.001-08:002018-02-04T14:33:22.786-08:00Superbowl First World Problems<p dir="ltr">What am I afraid of? </p>
<p dir="ltr">Not standing for anything and have my decisions driven by tomorrow and jealousy.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That seems like a bad outcome. </p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-38556049741996665092018-02-03T16:53:00.001-08:002018-02-03T16:53:47.216-08:00Essay time<p dir="ltr">I have to write an essay.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The thinking is that it is the tool for really learning and advancing your understanding of a topic. </p>
<p dir="ltr">For the first time it feels manageable...<br>
...but then again I have not started. </p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-30094792413199068242018-02-02T19:02:00.001-08:002018-02-02T19:02:05.439-08:00WIL #3 - Energy<p dir="ltr">Building things is fun. Thinking is fun. Being able it appropriate it all while it is happening is a lot of fun. </p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-5138242329414266702018-02-01T19:27:00.003-08:002018-02-01T19:27:40.964-08:00WIL #2 - All the wrong places. What I learned is that I am motivated and blown away by all the wrong things.<br />
Maybe not wrong; just unexpected and nonconventional.<br />
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I may have found out what I will spend my professional life working towards recently...<br />
in a cartoon.<br />
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And today I ran in to a buddy whom I don't know well off the basketball courts.<br />
He chews gum while he plays, is all tatted up, and definately gets hair lined-up rather than cut.<br />
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Holding his newborn in one arm, playing with his dog with the other, he seemed really disgustingly, genuinely, perminantly happy today.<br />
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I had imagined him struggling through the working day, hitting the courts at six every night, partyinig on the weekends, and generally barely holding on to sanity as it seems so many are.<br />
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I seem to have been wrong and have learned something.Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-59834892917024831102018-01-31T01:52:00.001-08:002018-01-31T01:52:13.034-08:00WILL - Jan 31What I Learned Lately is that there are a few benefits to having a vegetarian partner (who doesn't read your blog).<br />
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i - Obviously you eat healthier.<br />
ii - You slowly see that you could be a vegetarian too someday. However, not today.<br />
iii - You discover how many ways you can cook broccoli.<br />
iv - You see how often there is no substitute for the real thing (steak, burger, cream).<br />
v - Sneaking off on Tuesday afternoons for ten hot wings becomes an extreme pleasure.Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-38010416176431478472018-01-30T19:54:00.002-08:002018-01-30T19:54:55.461-08:00New blogging ideaIt turns out I don't have something to say every day. <div>
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So, I will now stop trying to say things. I will just start posting things I have learned that day.</div>
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Maybe if I learn something for many days in a row I will eventually have something to say. </div>
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Today I learned being calm and positive while others are blinded by aggressive anger is not only good fun, but it is also effective. </div>
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It is fun because your calm often, strangely, makes them angrier. But, more importantly, it also gives them an invitation. If you are calm, you are implicitly welcoming them to join you, no questions asked. </div>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-23180041156068284902018-01-29T18:06:00.000-08:002018-01-29T18:06:07.355-08:00Misbehaved HerosI was recently reminded that my two biggest heroes (outside of friends and family) publicly don't support each other. It seems that they actually detest each other.<br />
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Heroes are heroes because they are not wrong, at least in ways that matter. But both my heroes can't be right here. AHHHH.<br />
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This might be a good topic for an essay...Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-13827125074899745542018-01-28T17:37:00.001-08:002018-01-28T17:37:29.865-08:00Sucks again<p dir="ltr">Wow I suck at this. But I will not lose. Jonny, fuck off. </p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-72539047634467888722018-01-27T19:13:00.001-08:002018-01-27T19:13:57.263-08:00Conversations<p dir="ltr">All I did today was have good, meaningful, and energizing conversations. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Doing this every day wouldn't work as I wouldn't have time for immersing myself in the torrent of life that creates the content for these conversations. </p>
<p dir="ltr">But doing this - having these conversations - once in a while, is awesome. I can pull back out of the torrent and appreciate the big and the small, make deeper connections, and find ideas and inspiration to jump back in.</p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-68207421078409113752018-01-26T18:13:00.001-08:002018-01-26T18:13:04.083-08:00Nonsense<p dir="ltr">Upon walking off the basketball court and seeing a massive salsa lesson I marveled at it and thought "wow we humans are strange...what is the point of dancing?" </p>
<p dir="ltr">It didn't hit me for a few minutes the same could be said about playing basketball. </p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-24261700495253383822018-01-25T18:27:00.001-08:002018-01-25T18:27:53.822-08:00Pelu<p dir="ltr">I went to the barber twice today. Don't ask me why. </p>
<p dir="ltr">It was great to watch him take pride in what he was doing. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I need more of that in my life. </p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-70344738287642349962018-01-24T19:21:00.001-08:002018-01-24T19:21:18.986-08:00Need no more<p dir="ltr">Rereading some of my notes along side reading Ray Dalio's Principles has me feeling that I have all the knowledge I need to live a pretty great life. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I could stop learning here and it would take many lifetimes to experience and make my own the principles and wisdom given to me. <br>
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But I don't think it is going to work that way :) </p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-12774783291540322242018-01-23T16:49:00.001-08:002018-01-23T16:53:20.627-08:00The planned vacation<p dir="ltr">Why do I always buy into the illusion of beautiful views and rented cars equal vacation. </p>
<p dir="ltr">My whole life is beautiful and I don't need a car at all. </p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-51419832727789868792018-01-22T13:37:00.001-08:002018-01-22T13:37:05.875-08:00Taleb Style - Day 1Good Start?<br />
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First order of business was emphatically break the clearest rule - eating paleo. We woke up and went directly for a cheat meal Dwayne Johnson would approve of.<br />
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Sure, eating paleo technically means low sugar, no fast-burning carbohydrates, and nothing processed (I managed to disregard every one of these). But if you and your girlfriend love these waffles and smoothies over breakfast once a week (and you back it up with some heavy lifting), I can imagine him agreeing that this is a case where victory of the particular over the general is called for.<br />
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Rounding out the day with some flowers, writing letters over coffee, scratching a seemingly nonsensical curiosity, a long walk, and perhaps a glass of red wine to finish off the night...<br />
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...I might get use to this. Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-13433941987937833412018-01-21T18:47:00.001-08:002018-01-21T18:47:19.945-08:00That didnt work<p dir="ltr">I had the intention to write a well written blog today. </p>
<p dir="ltr">That didn't seem to be enough to to make it happen. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Tomorrow we try again...<br>
It was a great day though. <br>
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Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-29559113633847988232018-01-20T20:08:00.001-08:002018-01-20T20:08:49.251-08:00Thus blog is shit<p dir="ltr">The intent is great - clarify my thoughts and create a time capsule. But the execution is lacking. Reboot time.</p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-460825649246361822018-01-19T18:05:00.001-08:002018-01-19T18:05:41.171-08:00Beginning<p dir="ltr">Tomorrow I begin an experiment. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The curiosity of what's to come is pleasant and the nervousness of not wanting it to go wrong or peter out has me energized. </p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-65203472829810773132018-01-18T18:43:00.001-08:002018-01-18T18:43:35.209-08:00Disagreement<p dir="ltr">Forget arguments. Even simple disagreements are unsettling - borderline frustrating. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Really knowing what you are disagreeing about is rare. My guess is that over 90% of the time we just talking past each other. </p>
<p dir="ltr">On the rare occasions that both parties uncover the topic they are really disagreeing about, it makes things much easier. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Maybe "agreeing to disagree" is only a pussy move when you don't know what your disagreeing about?<br>
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Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-74996624528312268322018-01-17T16:33:00.000-08:002018-01-17T16:33:12.673-08:00Taleb Style<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I was captured by the idea from A.J. Jacobs </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Year of Living Biblically</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, where he lived rules from the Bible and learned a lot doing so. But rather than using a book I have little interest in modeling my life after, why not use one that I am constantly revisiting anyway. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">NN Taleb’s </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Bed of Procrustes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> is a book of aphorisms from a modern author, who seems to inhabit a world very different from my own. And that is why I find it incredible that is aphorisms ring so true to me and continually call my attention. I imagine we have very few shared experiences, but it feels as though his aphorisms talk, specifically, to my experiences. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I like to think that I am humble enough to realize that I way I live my life is probably not the most optimal (both for myself and those I care about). But I also subscribe to the hippie notion that you need to find your own way in life rather than modeling yourself after a role model. This seems to be a paradox: admitting there are possible internal universes better than your own, while also believing that your universe can only be at its greatest by following your unique path.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I have gone through </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Bed of Procrustes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> and selected aphorisms that either could be followed strictly or that would promote me seeing and acting in the world through his eyes. </span></div>
<br />Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278558664536793209.post-46682976766824959322018-01-16T19:16:00.001-08:002018-01-16T19:16:02.889-08:00Pain + reflection <p dir="ltr">I listed to Ray Dalio spill the secret sauce about learning: Pain plus reflection. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I also experienced some major pain. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Tomorrow reflection. </p>
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05965865446317578462noreply@blogger.com0