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Functional foods have been around for decades, but are taking off anew. Consumers have become more health-conscious, weight-loss drugs are changing people’s eating habits and strained household budgets make non-essentials harder to justify
Protein chips, sex chocolate: what are ‘functional foods’, and do they actually boost health?
Chocolate is hardly the only treat to be reborn as a wellness product. Supermarket shelves now boast chips with added protein, gut-friendly sodas and collagen oatmeal – all part of the fast-growing “functional foods” market, which is expected to reach $586bn globally by 2030.
Protein chips, sex chocolate: what are ‘functional foods’, and do they actually boost health?
The freedom of information the internet brings helps us expose idiot intellectuals quickly and more accurately than ever before. But the internet also allows idiot intellectuals to convert people into idiot followers more quickly and easily than ever before.
The result... is life in 2026.
The result... is life in 2026.
Mark Manson • Intellectuals are F*cking Idiots
There are times when it’s incredibly active and pleasurable and generative to go down these clickbaity rabbit holes online and just be amazed at what you can find. It can spark all sorts of thoughts and challenge things that you felt and give you new information... It’s a magical thing to have, absolutely, and I do that myself... I just get to call... See more
The bird that is your life; rehabilitating the active imagination in the age of fractured attention; bell hooks on language and desire
One consistent tension I’m navigating:
The pull to be at the vanguard of technology (learn Claude Code, install OpenClaw, vibe code everything!) and hurriedly experiment and drop ~$50 worth of credits on a project while asking Claude for step by step instructions like I’m disarming a bomb (“which wire,... See more
Camilo Moreno-Salamancasubstack.comI'm a very proud thief and deployer of Stewart Brand's pace layers.
Stewart originally used the pace layer model to describe how civilizations hold together, fashion moves fast, nature moves slow, and the health of the whole system depends on that tension being respected.
The slow layers are load-bearing. The fast layers are adaptive. You need... See more
Stewart originally used the pace layer model to describe how civilizations hold together, fashion moves fast, nature moves slow, and the health of the whole system depends on that tension being respected.
The slow layers are load-bearing. The fast layers are adaptive. You need... See more
Rick Evans • Katie Dreke, Founder, DRKE
And this remains the foundation of how Western culture thinks about happiness. Our fate, our happiness, is in our hands and minds, and ours alone. You can’t rely on others. In fact, you need to outcompete these others, or, at the very least, enough of them, to have a shot at a good, happy life. A culture of extreme individualism can’t exist without
... See moreWho Gets To Be Happy in an Individualistic, Capitalist Economy?
The greater the systemic problem, the greater the individual’s responsibility to somehow fix it themselves. This hyper-individualism then also pushes people into the greedy arms of the capitalist consumer culture and its $6.8 trillion wellness market, which has — surprise, surprise — grown in parallel with declining well-being.
