Steff Malherbe
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Steff Malherbe
Dr Stacey Sims on the Andrew Huberman Podcast: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity:
Intermittent fasting not ideal for women
Pre-training (morning) meal: 15g protein and 20g carb [then have breakfast afterwards within 45 minutes with 30g protein]
Exercise types NB for 20-30: get used to exercise, strength training,
Week Two: Recovering a Sense of Identity
Going Sane:
“There is a recognisable ebon flow to the process of recovering our creative selves. As we gain strength, so will some of the attacks of self-doubt. This is normal and we can deal with these stronger attacks when we see them as symptoms of recovery.”
“Early in our creative recovery, self-doubt can
Introduction:
The Basic Tools:
Morning pages: “three pages of long-hand writing, strictly stream of consciousness”
Artist’s Date: a block of time weekly especially set aside and committed to nurturing your creative consciousness (it is an excursion, a play date that you preplan and protect - you do it alone)
“think of this combination of tools in terms
... See moreBlack Bear:
Last night Matt and I watched Black Bear featuring Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon by director and screenwriter Lawrence Michael Levine.
It was an absolute banger. But utterly confusing - we watched YouTube explanation videos for a while after finishing the movie.
Aubrey Plaza’s character, Allison, is a film director and
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Why are so many young people looking for God?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2vYDu7aYAnbsvMPplrXxkQ?si=E_jEcylLS-KiC-QfGtgXXg
lots of spikes towards religion throughout history
My ex getting baptised
Desire for community & guidance
Desire for simplicity (trad wives/ having a clear doctrine from religion to follow vs complexity of trans rights,
Everybody Writes by Ann Handley
set time aside everyday when you are freshest
don’t write a lot, just write often
publishing is a privilege - “[this] is a necessary mindset that creates a breeding ground for great writing and content. it is a point of view that says we value our relationships with ur audience. we put their needs first. we want to earn
(It’s arguable that we could understand the institution of celebrity itself as similarly suspicious: despite the prevailing liberalism of Hollywood, the values of celebrity—visibility, performance, aspiration, extreme physical beauty—promote an approach to womanhood that relies on individual exceptionalism in an inherently conservative way.)
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Analyzing sexism through female celebrities is a catnip pedagogical method: it takes a beloved cultural pastime (calculating the exact worth of a woman) and lends it progressive political import.