Anyone have some win that they want to share? It could be anything - business, fitness, chess competition, hot date, whatever.

This thread is supposed to be the fitness equivalent of the rant thread in the main forum. Post anything related to fitness here, even if its just complaining about insane shit at the gym. This was my routine today (Olympic weightlifting): A. Strict press + Thruster + Front squat (3+3+3)x3 ...

This is a cool market research service that might help you find prospects and leads, especially if you do B2B marketing or sales. So I'm a data miner who focuses on getting data and making it usable. I do a lot of webscraping and data mining. And I’ve recently been coordinating with a fellow...

I saw a younger family member earlier who put on a significant amount of weight seen we'd last seen each other. I plan to intervene, but I want this family to get better. I don't want to just run my mouth. Could anyone who has helped someone lose weight chime in?

This thread is about weightlifting programs and progression, specifically bodybuilding and strength training. It is is aimed at people who are already physically active but who are still beginners with weightlifting. TL;DR do this routine with low weight and have a buff personal trainer, have a...

With the coronavirus and the protests shaking up the country and causes many people to move, I am wondering what will draw people to new places, especially since many professions will allow people to work from anywhere. Factors like taxes, cost, rent, safety, culture, nature, and so on will...

This is just a brief post about how contemporary life is too much like a reality TV show. I'd wager that many people have noticed that much of modern life seems to have a theatrical dimension to it. To risk mentioning politics, "Trump Derangement Syndrome" where all of Trump's critics tend to...

Like most of you, my exercise routine changed drastically over the last few weeks. I was doing a bodybuilding routine which consisted of mostly barbell exercises every other day. Now I'm making do with what I have in my apartment. My New Main Routine - 10K Ketllebell Swings My take on the...

Given the uncertainty and anxiety of today, I wanted to post some authors of a school of ideas that has stood the test of time: Stoicism. Seneca: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Seneca Marcus Aurelius - Meditations: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Meditations Epictetus - Enchiridion...

This concerns politics so I am not sure if it is off limits on this forum, but it is a big enough idea that I figured it was worth mentioning. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/19/democrats-propose-10000-in-student-debt-forgiveness-amid-coronavirus.html This could just be a PR stunt where they...

Answer this question at any level you want - company, industry, culture, nation (will maps be redrawn?). Anyone who has good answers to these questions can become very powerful or influential. It looks like the coronavirus might show that people don't actually have to go to the classroom to...

When shit hits the fan, there are always people who step up. I thought that this thread would be a good way to log stories of some people doing just that. Please add any similar stories that you might come across...

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Thinking_for_Oneself I just finished this short & wonderful essay. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes to read a lot, as reading can actually make you dumber under certain circumstances. It resonated with an idea which I implied from Nassim Taleb, which is to...

This quote exists for a reason. People are highly emotional during crises, and are therefore open to new ideas. This creates massive opportunities. I'm not advocating being a scumbag and stocking up on medical supplies to gouge people later (those same emotional people would be happy to give...

This is a free for all Q&A about people who would like to use data for some purpose. It doesn't have to be business related, it could just be a pet project. My background is data visualization and data processing, manipulation, & transformation. I've worked on a few brief data projects with...

And no, I'm not asking of you think they're lying - I'm sure there is plenty of that. I think that some actors, politicians, and other TV personalities develop a type of psychosis where they can't differentiate whatever world they're pretending to be a part of on TV and the actual world. Maybe...

The future will be overloaded with data. There will be huge opportunities in every commercial industry as well as in people's personal lives (quantified self etc) for anyone who can come up with innovative ways to help people use their data...

https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2019/ Posting this because it could give people ideas, not because it really is a "best" list. They have this list for prior years too. I thought that Firefly had a novel idea - ad space on Uber vehicles. That is an idea that I wouldn't have considered.

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

There are goods that people were buying 200-2000 years ago that they would just as eagerly buy today, because human nature does not change. Can any of you recommend a good book on a history of trade goods? It could be any part of the word, any industry, any period of history.