Welcome back, everyone. It’s been a couple of months since the last Ferg’s Focus went out. Thanks for staying on board in the interim.

If you know me personally, you’ll know I’m a bit of a health nerd—and a proud one at that. I find it fun to experiment with the always-fresh “optimization” doctrine being touted online. Some could say that cold therapy and avoiding coffee for 90 minutes after waking up have replaced fad diets like paleo and low-carb.

These lifestyle insights are only helpful insofar as how much we question the validity of them. Personal health is not objective. There are certain daily practices, nutrition structures, and training regimens that work more for some than for others. Taking them at face value would be much simpler, yet foolish. The key is to test these different protocols and use only what works for you to construct your own long-term health philosophy.

Unfortunately, there is too much influence on our health optimization and not enough on managing information and stimulus. That’s where this edition of Ferg’s Focus comes in.

Consume Less, Think More

I had it all wrong. More information doesn’t yield more learning, at least not linearly. This is a proposal for slower information consumption.

All you have to sacrifice is bragging rights as to who listened to more minutes of Huberman Lab on Spotify Wrapped.

High-Octane Fuel or Bust

A nutrition metaphor for evaluating the quality of information:

One Visit is Too Many

I was pleased to see my work published again over the holidays. Thank you to Intrepid Times for sharing my latest travel narrative, this one taking place on the hellish island of Chiloé.

The full story is linked below.

Thanks once again for reading Ferg’s Focus! My goal is to continue using uncomfortable experiences to learn and share meaningful lessons and insights about the world beyond the small bubble of predictability at home. To support this newsletter and its corresponding stories, you can buy me a coffee (see footer) or share this newsletter with a friend.

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Until the next,

-Ferg