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Who’s watching three body problem this weekend?! I’m a few episodes in and first reaction: The opening scene just punches you in the face. IRL cancel culture driven by high school and college students. Science and academia becoming politicized. Tearing down the past. Etc Sound…
this is one of the most important graphs that I saw in 2023 that has led to behavior change. This is in Peter Attia's book Outlive
tldr: if you want to be able to climb stairs when you are 75, you need to be in the top 95th percentile of cardiovascular fitness. With this, you won't be able to run nor briskly climb stairs
But if you are average/low, you may not even be able to do any of that. And it seems unlikely you'll be avg/low now (I'm in my early 40s) and then somehow go from 50th percentile to 95th. So basically it's better to get started
Thus, after reading his book, I reluctantly started running again even though I hate it. And am also doing some peloton / cycling outdoors when time/weather allows
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Highly recommend. I was familiar with a lot of the events covered in the book but it put it together cohesively - for a very complex industry - and covers a lot ground on modern geopolitics between the US, China, and Taiwan Summary:
- history of the semiconductor industry in pre-silicon valley
- classic stories on Fairchild, the traitorous 8, Texas Instruments, etc
- bridges into the creation of the semiconductor industry in Asia, with Japan’s dominance in memory followed by the US cos building fans in Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong to compete
- the emergence of TSMC in Taiwan, why it’s become so central
- lots of interesting discussion on modern geopolitics with China
