One of the most effective diets I'm aware of is the coffee and cigarette diet. Anytime you feel hungry, have a coffee and a cigarette first, then eat a little if you're still hungry.
It has a much better compliance rate that other calorie-restriction diets.
> Email is this thing you forgot to check for a month because every time you go there it is mostly spam.
As a society, should we allow private entities to destroy valuable institutions?
We used to have a technology (email) that increased productivity and added value to individual lives. That value has been eliminated by spammers trying to cold-extract money from everyone with an email account.
Spammers killing email is an externality we shouldn't accept, similar to not accept Monsanto killing bald eagles by selling DDT.
Don't get too comfy in your chats, spammers are coming for your discords and slacks next, and that wave will be lead by LLMs.
Isolation has a feedback that makes it hard to break out of once you're in really deep. The more desperately lonely you are, the worse your social skills.
I also dislike the lack of mugs in coffee shops. Big chains don't have them at all, and local shops you need to specifically ask for it or they assume a paper cup.
I'm often the only person drinking out of a mug in a coffee shop full of people.
But I'm a grumpy old man that doesn't understand today's world, and I accept that. Leaving work to drive to Starbucks and buy a coffee (instead of using the kuerig or espresso machine in the break room) is gen z's version of stepping out for a smoke break.
It's fairly well accepted [citation needed?] that the most effective form of academic education is private tutoring by skilled tutors. We're (possibly) on the cusp of that being accessible to everyone via LLMs.
In that brave new world schools need to shift towards a focus on development of personal character. MDs, at least those that you speak to in person, need to focus on bedside manner.