This question is dead from the beginning. Exercise is good for the heart, the muscles, metabolism. You do need muscle contractions above certain level of intensity and duration for this to happen.

It’s Colombia, not Columbia

I drink 270g of pure sugar during a hard 3h bike ride. While allowing me to complete the hard work, it also helps with not feeling empty afterwards and eating uncontrollably. As long as I don’t gain weight It’s all good.

“ If Madoff got lucky and his portfolio doubled in a year, then he too would have been able to make customers whole.”

Maddoff didn’t have any portfolio since the late 80’s. So no trading, all fake records. Redemptions of principal and made up profits were paid with other customer funds.

This article reads like Jane Street’s PR work.

It does. Try riding a bike above FTP at altitude for as long as you can. Then describe how your heart feels for the reminder of that day.

This is true, but incomplete. Such unsophisticated investor has to control his frequency of trading, and also the frequency of trading of his etf or mutual fund. Any fund needs to do trading, re balancing, etc. So there's a double layer where ppl get charged 'the vig'.

For many of the reasons expressed here, specially the 'business culture' and 'hustling factor', China is the country that reminds me most of United States.

As an excercise for the reader, would be interesting to test the performance of a buy and hold strategy of stocks a.) Going below IPO price, b.) Going below 50% IPO price. A second filter that can be applied is the time span between first day of trading of such event.

Indoor climbing/bouldering is a nice alternative for ppl who find lifting boring. Despite mostly engaging upper body, it really gives you a good workout with the added problem solving challenge, balance and flexibility training.

What I like about climbing, despite never having done it,

  - blends power and subtlety
  - blends static and dynamic
  - involves almost all limb chains

The added "route planning" effort also forces your brain into deep focus. A climber said for him every second is an hour.

And on actual rock, having to judge a grabbing surface on the fly is beautiful to me, like playing violin.