Ed Calderon

I walk over, get an electrolyte drink as the coffee is being made.

Then an Athletic Greens drink for the nutrition.

And finally, I walk over with the coffee to my computer.

And my favorite thing to do to start the day is something that I left unfinished from the night before, which would be a programming task.

So anything involving programming, when you just have this...

screen full of code, and I can focus on a design problem.

For some reason, it's a great warm-up to my brain.

I can clear out the distractions of the world and focus on these little puzzles.

And it's also clear that I can make progress on solving little puzzles, little puzzles here.

Whether it's debugging or building a new thing, all of it just makes me really happy.

especially as the project nears completion, whether it's the intermediate stages of its completion or the final thing.

Particularly, oftentimes, what that programming is is scripts that automate various aspects of my life and make me more efficient, but it's also larger projects that I do for machine learning and robotics work and beyond.

Anyway, during those moments, if I'm feeling really out of it, I will take an AlphaBrain to give me a boost.

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I've been getting softer and fatter.

over the past few months.

And recently, a few days ago, I decided to change that.

So I'm on a stricter diet now, on a stricter exercise regime.

And it's amazing sort of the improvement in how I feel about this world, how I feel about just the way I move about the world, the way I