Happy Saturday. Every day, we post the best link from the day before. Here’s every evergreen link you loved from September. Also, here is the corrected Fun Link from yesterday: 13 kitchen hacks in 60 seconds
THE BEST OF
Essay we keep coming back to
"Are You Hunting Antelope or Field Mice?" by Tim Ferriss. The idea comes from political strategists James Carville and Paul Begala. A lion can catch field mice all day, but each one burns more calories than it provides. Antelope take speed, patience and a real chance of coming home empty, but one feeds the pride for days. Most of our days are mice: the inbox, the invoice, the tweak nobody asked for. Each gives a small hit of progress, which is exactly what makes them dangerous.
Short video worth 10 minutes
"You Can Have Everything You Want in 90 Days,” Alex Hormozi with Chris Williamson. Hormozi's main hack is almost insultingly simple: stop waiting to get in the mood to work, because "starting is the perfect condition." His best trick is to quit for the day halfway through a sentence. The open loop nags at you overnight and makes the next morning's start nearly automatic.
Health protocol we’re learning more about
HumeCare+ from Hume Health [Partner*]. Most GLP-1 telehealth services compete on fast prescriptions and low prices. HumeCare+ treats the medication as one part of a structured protocol, not the whole product. Three things set it apart:
Weight is the wrong metric. Instead of tracking one number, members get regular at-home 3D body composition scans, so they can see how fat mass and muscle mass are actually changing.
A protocol, not a prescription. Glycine, B12 and B6 are built into the plan rather than sold as add-ons.
A plan for after. The program includes guidance for the question most GLP-1 coverage raises and few services answer: what happens when you stop?
More than 20,000 Americans have used it, and it holds a 4.7/5 rating across 21,479 reviews. Learn more here.
Workout that fits in a parking space
Mike Tyson's prison workout. Tyson went into prison at 285 pounds and came out three years later at 215, in the best shape of his life, with no gym and no equipment.
2,000 sit-ups, in 40 sets of 50
500 push-ups, in sets of 50
Jumping in place with no rope after lights out
Footwork drills on the same spots until the concrete wore down
8 to 10 miles of running every morning
The part worth stealing isn't the volume. He spread it from wake-up to lights out, and he bet push-ups with friends instead of money, so the work happened whether he felt like it or not.
Guide we're using this Fall
The Dinner Party Handbook by Alexandra Van den Bergh. She brings restaurant-kitchen habits to home hosting. Her premise is that a great dinner party is mostly prep nobody sees. The rules:
Cook no more than one new recipe.
Work backward from dinner time.
Make sauces and dressings and set the table the day before.
Pick dishes that can wait, like slow-cooked mains and room-temperature sides.
Leave a two-hour buffer before guests arrive.
Her favorite trick of all is emptying the dishwasher before the doorbell rings.
Chart to check before your next car
Ranked: Cars That Hold and Lose Their Value the Most from Visual Capitalist, using iSeeCars data on more than 950,000 five-year-old cars.
Best at holding value after five years: Porsche 718 Cayman (lost just 9.6%), Porsche 911 (11.1%), Chevy Corvette (18.7%), Toyota Tacoma (19.9%) and Toyota Tundra (21.2%).
Worst: Nissan Leaf (63.1%), Infiniti QX80 (62.8%), VW ID.4 (62.1%), Tesla Model S (62.0%) and Range Rover (61.7%).
Book we're adding to the list
The Pickle Factory: A Tall Tale of the CIA by Sam R. Oyken. The CIA spent 12 years blocking this novel, which was written by one of its own deep-cover officers. ("The pickle factory" is old insider slang for the agency.) The Washington Post reports that behind the fiction it alleges grave dysfunction in deep-cover operations. A spy novel the spies didn't want published is an easy sell for us.
Series we're rewatching
Band of Brothers: Legacy (HBO Max trailer). Band of Brothers premiered 25 years ago this month. HBO's new documentary goes behind how the series was made, and the trailer alone made us want to start over from episode one. If you've never seen it, this is your sign: ten episodes, one very good weekend.
Three more you loved: the most popular cereal in every state, Sandra Bullock's $50M real estate portfolio, and a Lego head ski mask that looks legit.
— The 1% Better Team