Maximizing Human Performance
I have been involved in a university project for a non-profit organization in Finland. One of our tasks was to figure out how to get people to consume less. Personally I don't believe that all consumption is bad and we should just suddenly jump away from a market society, but I do believe that many people have found themselves more than once buying useless shit they don't need. So instead of … [Read more...]
Backstory: the Paleo movement is building its profile here in Finland as well. We have a new torchbearer in the form of Helsinki Paleo website, as well as a podcast run by the masterminds Jaakko Savolahti and Olli Sovijärvi. Comparisons to The Paleo Solution podcast by Robb Wolf are inevitable, and I'm quite sure it has been a significant force inspiring these two swashbucklers to start their own … [Read more...]
I work wherever my clients are. This year I've had it easy: door-to-door commute takes about 30 minutes and I only have to take one subway. While working on my previous project it took easily 40-50 minutes by tram and train, as well as quite a bit of walking to get from home to the client office. Let's do some math: Assuming I'd go to the office 5 days a week (hardly unrealistic for anyone with … [Read more...]
Human body is an amazingly complex system of biological processes and our understanding of its inner workings is still evolving. Right now there is a very interesting debate going on in the Paleo community between Gary Taubes, author of the Good Calories, Bad Calories and Stephan Guyenet on the causes of obesity; carb-insulin hypothesis going against food palatability hypothesis. Due to this … [Read more...]
WARNING: Reading this article may make you hungry! Preparing meals that are both tasty and healthy is as easy as it gets. I definitely don't want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen, so almost everything I make has to be ready fast. People who never cook think it takes a lot of time to prepare a meal, but that is not the case. Pretty much everything in this article takes less than 15 minutes … [Read more...]