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• More information is not the answer to behavior change
• If you want to be good at decision making, you have to get adequate sleep
• Tips to improve your sleep:
  • Spend enough time in bed so that you wake naturally without an alarm clock
  • Go to bed and wake up at the same time every day
  • Avoid blue light within 2 hours of going to bed
  • Try to get as much natural daylight during the day as you can, especially in the morning
• Fat cells actually have photoreceptors (aka light receptors)
  • It’s been found that fat cells shrink and become less inflammatory when exposed to light, and release a whole different profile of hormones
• Heat and cold stress increase the production of heat/cold shock proteins in the brain which have a whole host of benefits

This week’s guest on Health Theory is Dr. Dan Pardi.  Dr. Pardi is a sleep specialist, the CEO of humanOS.me and helps people engineer healthier behaviors.  In this episode he talks about how to optimize your behaviors for health, the importance of sleep, and why we get fat.

SHOW NOTES

How Dan's father's cancer inspired his career [01:22]

How to take over your behaviors [02:47]

The importance of sleep [08:07]

Daytime strategies to improve your sleep [12:19]

What your body fat is really up to [14:30]

The mechanisms that burn body fat [20:10]

What drives our food intake [23:56]

Why your decision making capabilities are diminished after a night of poor sleep [28:57]

The metabolic impacts of little sleep [32:23]

Why exercise may not have the effect on weight we thought it did [34:18]

How to lose 100 pounds [37:18]

The role of cold and heat exposure for our health [38:55]

Is GHB the perfect drug for Alzheimer's? [42:53]

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WEBSITE: https://www.humanos.me/

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/danielpardi/

100 trillion. One hundred trillion dollars. This is the amount of wealth controlled by institutional investors (pension funds, family offices, sovereign wealth funds of the world). They are rife with problems though—from misalignment of incentives to invest in long term projects, to the difficulty in acquiring talent, to the complete lack of tools and technologies that could power and reshape this space.

We sat down with Dr. Ashby Monk, Executive Director of Stanford's Global Projects Center, to discuss these issues and hear how others can contribute to fixing these problems.

Special Guest: Ashby Monk.

• According to Twitter’s Hateful Conduct Policy deadnaming and misgendering are a violation of their rules
  • What’s deadnaming? – If a transgender individual changes their birth name, you’re not allowed to call them by the name they went by before the transition
  • Misgendering refers to using a pronoun or form of address, that does not correctly reflect the gender with which someone identifies
• The main thing Twitter is trying to do (this is important):
  • “My intention is to build a platform that gives as many people as possible the opportunity to freely express themselves” – Jack
    • When people encounter particular hateful conduct – they tend to remove themselves from the platform completely, which goes against the above – this is why Twitter’s specific rules/policies are in place
• How does the process work once a tweet is reported?
  • Note – Twitter cannot yet recognize tweets that may go against their policies. They’re currently developing the algorithms to do so, but right now tweets must be reported.
  • As tweets are reported, they’re added to a queue and ranked by severity
    • What’s most severe? – If someone’s physical safety is harmed, or private information is leaked
  • A small content moderation team then examines the tweet and the context around it
    • They then have the ability to go down the enforcement spectrum:
      • 1) They make people log in to their Twitter account and read a message from Twitter explaining how they violated their policies, and force them to delete the tweet if they want to continue using the platform
      • 2) Temporary suspension if offenses are repeated
      • 3) Permanent ban as a last resort
• On Banning:
  • “We don’t usually or automatically suspend accounts with one violation because we want people to learn and understand what they did wrong, and give them an opportunity not to do it again. It’s a BIG thing to kick someone off the platform. We take that very, very seriously.” – Vijaya
• Does Twitter have a liberal bias?
  • Tim brings up quite a few points:
    • Most of the people Twitter bans are conservative
    • Conservatives don’t agree with Twitter on the definition of misgendering
      • “If you have a rule in place that specifically adheres to the left ideology, you by default are enforcing rules from a biased perspective” 
      • The conservative view of misgendering – If someone is a biological male, and they’re called “she”
      • The progressive view (the same as Twitter’s policy) – if someone wants to be called “she” and they’re a biological male, that’s what needs to happen (and if someone doesn’t comply, depending on history/context, they’re prone to being banned)
        • “You actually have in your policies a rule against the conservative perspective”
  • Thoughts form Vijaya
    • “We have a rule against the abuse and harassment of trans people on our platform”
      • Why does Twitter have this rule?
        • Through much research with the American Association of Pediatrics, it’s been found that a very high number of transgender youths commit suicide (it’s about 10x the normal suicide rate for teens)
          • The main cause of this – bullying behavior (which Twitter wanted to avoid)
    • “All I’ll say is our intent is not to police ideology. Our intent is to police behaviors that we view was abuse and harassment.”
• The extent of Twitter’s influence and the problems with this:
  • Tim:
    • Someone in the U.S. can be banned from Twitter for not complying with the misgendering policy, while foreigners are free to use the platform (as long as they comply with the rules) to influence U.S. elections
    • “Twitter is becoming extremely important in how our public discourse is occurring, how our culture is developing, and who even gets elected. If you [Twitter] have rules that are based on a global policy, that means American citizens who are abiding by all the laws of our country are being restricted from engaging in public discourse because you’ve monopolized that.”
      • “At a certain level, there are going to be American citizens who have been removed from this public discourse, because you [Twitter] have different rules than the American country has”
    • “Twitter is slowly gaining too much control, from your personal ideologies, based on what you’ve research and what you think is right over American discourse”

• If you make a mistake, don’t get down on yourself
  • Realize they happen, examine your process, and correct for the future
• Oaktree Capital’s motto – “If we avoid the losers, winners take care of themselves”
• What you prioritize, you have a better chance of accomplishing
  • With investing –“One of the reasons we’re so good at controlling risk, is because we put risk control first”
• You cannot tell the quality of a decision from the outcome
  • Improbable things happen all the time, and probable things fail to happen all the time
• Here’s why market cycles occur:
  • “Cycles happen because people commit excesses to the upside, usually out of enthusiasm, which then have to be corrected, and those corrections overshoot to the downside”
• The greatest contributor to global economic maximization? – Globalization
• More likely than not, luck plays a role in everyone’s successes
• Self-driving cars will put a TON of people out of work
• Risk isthe probability of bad outcomes
  • Bad outcomes = loss AND gains that you miss out on
  • Many people care more about the former – we should think of risk in terms of BOTH
• The earlier a child can learn that mistakes don’t kill them, the better

Billionaire investor, author and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Howard Marks discusses risk assessment, how to think different than the crowd, and the three mighty dares that separate the successful from the also-rans.

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