For the past few years, I've gone down an interesting rabbit of hole in my lifelong health journey. Starting with respiratory allergies, leading to sleep apnea, and most recently punctuated with a septoplasty and turbinate resection. The sensation of being able to breathe through my left nostril for the first time in my life was unlike any other. This ease of breath created a new curiosity, which led me down a mountain of research around hidden costs and benefits of breathing. My procedure was covered by insurance, and knowing the actuary industry I'm sure they have data backing this up. I went to find it for myself. Below, you'll find various metrics and correlations that I found interesting, in no particular order. I've included the source data and links to the original studies.
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I switched deepshah.com from Weblow to being built with Astro.js, written in Markdown, and hosted on Vercel. And, I did it in half the time thanks to Copilot.
With Fast 9 coming out this week, I was reminded of all the incredible car chases in film history (The Fast franchise isn't about cars anymore, it's about Family™). So, I went down a YouTube rabbit hole rewatching some of my favourite chase sequences. While there are a ton of cool, technically impressive car sequences in cinema history, these are some of the ones that come to mind as my favourites.
I've been thinking about how we present ourselves to people.
What kind of life do you want to live?