Cal Newport

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I finished last week my fifth book of the month, Jesse.

I reread In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan because, again, my rough idea for a new book, which I'm not sure if I'm doing yet or not, but I have this idea for a book tentatively titled In Defense of Thinking.

And I want to go back and read Pollan's manifesto about eating to see what did he do there that might be relevant for how I think about structuring this book about thinking.

And so it was interesting to go back.

It was kind of nostalgic.

I remembered when this was 2006, this book came out.

All these ideas were big back then.

It's so non-surprising today.

Like the ideas in that book have been so, because he was successful, have been so well inculcated to our culture that like it didn't, I remember the freshest that book has, which it, you know, doesn't have anymore because like he was successful in changing the way we thought about thinking.

So, but it was good to go back and reread that.

Is it like no processed food and-

Well, his three pieces of advice is eat food, mostly plants, not too much.

But it's a three-part book.

Part one kind of lays out the problem of nutritionism, which is like focusing on individual macro and micronutrients when you're thinking about health as opposed to like thinking about food as a whole.

And then he talks about –

getting beyond nutritionism, and then the third part is like he goes into those specific pieces of advice and actually like gives a lot of advice.

So, you know, it's a very good book if you haven't read it before.