Posts tagged wellness
Reducing my cognitive load on food
- 29 March 2026
A typical day leaves very little room for improvisation. Sleep, work, basic maintenance, the small rituals that keep a life running. They fill almost the entire 24‑hour cycle. When I looked closely at where my time was going, food turned out to be the largest flexible block. Not the eating itself, but everything around it: deciding what to make, checking what I have, preparing it, cleaning up afterward. It was a constant background process that consumed more time and attention than I wanted to give it.
I enjoy eating, and I want the food I eat to be nutritious and unprocessed [1]. But preparing that kind of food every single day takes time I don’t always have. Meal prepping became a way to reclaim that time without compromising on what I value. I’ve been doing so for almost a year now. It gives me predictable meals, predictable nutrition, and predictable effort. It removes the daily decision‑making and replaces it with a weekly session that stabilizes the rest of the week.
Why my heart rate is on the internet
- 27 March 2026
I built an ETL pipeline [1] for my personal health data. It updates every ten minutes and feeds a data warehouse [2]. And then I made it public… which might confuse you. It looks like a quantified‑self stunt [3] or some kind of cry for help, but it isn’t. It’s a privacy experiment, and the origin of it is much more mundane than it appears. It started with an unhealthy relationship with optimization.
A few years ago, I wanted to “improve” my body. Nothing dramatic, just a few centimeters here and there. I’m naturally skinny, so I focused on recomposition. I tried a ketogenic diet because some of the claims around it were interesting. I started counting calories and macros. The diet failed and I stopped, but the counting didn’t. At some point, calorie counting stopped being a tool and became a background process… a tab I couldn’t close.