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# A Solid Yap Session
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/a-solid-yap-session/
- Published: 2024-12-04T00:11:55.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-07T17:50:55.000Z
- Description: day 3
- Author: Bram Adams
- Tags: workout podcast

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Goals:  
1\. talk about interesting stuff  
2\. get fit  
  
[previous episode](https://www.bramadams.dev/every-single-person-is-a-unique-configuration-of-the-human-experience/)  
[next episode](https://www.bramadams.dev/software-in-production/)

4 sets of 5 pushups

4 sets of 5 squats

topics:

- my experience with calorie counting
- its **very** easy to over eat
- sneaky calorie dense foods
- the problem of eating when you are bored is like doing drugs because you are bored
- drinking calories
- what foods are satisfying?
- whats the optimal time of day to eat food?
- eating strategically by using the [knapsack problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack%5Fproblem?ref=bramadams.dev)
- choosing what food urge is the most pressing
- thinking about food is "another thing on your plate"
- my experience with arfid
- i feel less bloated because of counting calories
- the feeling of "being done" with work
- my creative muses live in the nighttime
- the mindless urges of checking youtube/email/the internet
- getting through a to-do list doesn't necessarily cause peace of mind
- work is never done, the projects just change
- i need to learn how to convert my agency into gratitude
- you can't directly be grateful, like you can't directly be happy
- the curse of modernity and the societal hedonic treadmill
- should we force people into the wilderness?
- its good to feel grateful about the skills you are working on
- appreciate yourself or risk collapse upon yourself
- the value of building memories
- my experiences being a decade out of college – and what my college friends talk about
- why the biographies of van gogh and napoleon are so long – they wrote a ton of letters that showed us their internal mind states
- a website vs a social media presence
- the value of evidence of work that you've done over the course of your life to feel valuable – especially in a knowledge work economy
- on social media you are constantly competing with strangers in a way that you think that they'll like you
- the random mode button is **awesome**
- conversations with yourself
- is the persuasion layer inwardly focused or outwardly focused?
- the value of earned media over marketing – my [metafilter](https://www.metafilter.com/202486/A-Message-from-Big-Book?ref=bramadams.dev) story
- there is a stark deviation in creativity when posting on a personal site vs social media
- we shrink ourselves for social media platforms

mentioned:

[Issue 44: Is Being Well Read Actually a Thing? Part I - Zero to OneThe superpower we neglect to use![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/icon/leda-2-6.jpeg)Bram AdamsBram Adams![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/thumbnail/gothlib.jpeg)](https://www.bramadams.dev/issue-44/)