Things to Carry in Your Gym Bag
1) Towel: Always carry your own towel and put it on the equipment before you use it. Not only is it more hygienic for others, but it also protects you from catching skin infections from other people. 2) Chalk: I prefer the good old bricks but you can also carry the liquid chalk pastes if […]
Should you buy a house? (And Who Should Not Buy a House)
Note: This particular post is URBAN INDIA specific advice given that I live in Urban India, although I’m quite certain the situation is similar in many other parts of the world. Over a decade of being in tax/law consulting, this is a question I’ve received hundreds of times from hundreds of people. The answer is […]
Highly Palatable Foods: The First Big Reason Why You Are Fatter Than a Hunter Gatherer (Nutrition For Health and Hypertrophy Part 19)
In the previous part of this series, we talked about food preferences and what factors in our food make our brains release dopamine to get us to learn to eat them when the same stimulus arises again in our lives. To refresh your memory: Basically any time you eat a food that matches the innate […]
How to Make Customers Happy (Avoid Petty MBA Practices)
I needed to get a new pair of sunglasses because I was heading out to a snowy trek shortly (the wife used my old trek glasses when she had an eye infection and I don’t want to use them anymore). I went to the store and found one I liked from a brand called Oakley […]
How to Know if Your Training is Working
There are guys who go to the gym regularly but always look the same. They make no progress despite putting in the time and showing up to the gym. There are some guys I know who’ve been showing up to the gym for 5+ years straight and do not look significantly different from how they […]
Don’t Waste Your 20s (How to Maximize Your Twenties) PART 6
Continued from part 5. 18) Always be building and get things out fast Throughout your 20s, you should always be building something or the other. At no point if someone asks “what are you up to these days?” should the answer be “Nothing, just chilling.” You should be: Always be building SOMETHING. If you didn’t […]
How to Talk to Women on Dates PART 3: How to Keep Conversations Going
Continued from part 2. Note: If you’re sleeping around with random girls, make sure you’ve read How to Avoid a False Rape Accusation. A few simple precautions can save you a lot of trouble on the off chance that things go south. In this final part of this series, I’m going to talk about how to […]
Evolutionary Reward Systems and Food Preferences (Nutrition For Health and Hypertrophy Part 18)
Continued from part 17. In the previous part of this series, we ended up with an unanswered question. To understand the answer to that question, we need to understand what makes you want to eat anything in the first place. You Evolved to Live And Breed As covered previously in this series, life is a […]
How to Train Without Getting Extremely Sore and Fatigued
A lot of people hate leg day because it fatigues the fuck out of them and gets them sore for the next 3-4 days. Some can’t even walk properly the next day after hitting legs. In this piece I’m going to tell you how to fix your training to avoid this problem as much as […]
How to Talk to Women on Dates PART 2: Leading The Date to Sex (The Subtext You Want to Maintain)
Continued from part 1. Note: If you’re sleeping around with random girls, make sure you’ve read How to Avoid a False Rape Accusation. A few simple precautions can save you a lot of trouble on the off chance that things go south. Once you’ve built basic comfort with the girl, you want her to build […]
Don’t Waste Your 20s (How to Maximize Your Twenties) PART 5
Continued from part 4. 13) Avoid Debt Debt is slavery. You are spending money you do not have and will have to pay it back from the income you will make in the future. This means that you are forced to have income in the future otherwise you can’t make payments and the debt blows […]
Knot Dating App for Beta Males: Founder Jasveer Singh called out as a liar and COMPLETELY LOSES IT
This one is a YouTube video: Grab some coffee and watch it, because you’re going to enjoy the commentary.
How to Talk to Women on Dates PART 1: Building Basic Comfort
From the desk of Harsh StrongmanLocation: A cafe in the middle of a lake Some guys naturally “get women” and have extremely good results with dating even when they have nothing else going on in their life (these types are usually excellent at in-person sales). They never have to read articles like this or need […]
The 5 Stages of Understanding LifeMathMoney
I’ve been writing LMM for almost 8 years now (time flies!) and in this time, I’ve seen many people who used to “hate” me turn into readers and customers. This might sound surprising to most readers who are naturally ambitious (it is DNA deep) and actively look for the type of information I publish on […]
Don’t Waste Your 20s (How to Maximize Your Twenties) PART 4
Continued from part 3. 9) Seek to learn from the skilled and competent (even if they are assholes) The biggest myth that men in their 20s have is about their own self-importance. They think they are equal to kings and emperors in their heads while in reality they are just newbies to the real world. […]
Have the “Make Your Own Opportunities” Mindset
I travel a lot and many places I end up in are tourist towns. Not always but many times. Every time I’m going to travel, I look up a few YouTube videos on that location to see what I can explore when I’m there. 99.99% of the time, the videos that tell you about the […]
How to Fix The Societal Problem of Obesity And Make Everyone Healthy
Obesity is a huge problem and unfortunately, there has been no scalable fix that doesn’t create dependency. GLP-1 drugs work and help a lot of people lose weight without having to modify their habits, but because they do not change your habits, it means that people who stop using the drug put fat back on […]
How to Handle Ungrateful Family Members
I got an interesting question from a reader: “How do I handle my wife having no gratefulness for all I do for her? All she does is nag and be unhappy about everything. I do not wish to divorce her but things are worse with time and I feel that it is only a matter […]
Don’t Waste Your 20s (How to Maximize Your Twenties) PART 3
Continued from part 2. 6) Avoid isolation. Build and Maintain High Quality Friendships. While you need some amount of privacy to research and build things, you should not turn yourself into a house hermit. It has lots of downstream negative consequences simply because you get little to no feedback from actual humans (the internet is […]
What Do Hunter Gatherers Eat? (Nutrition For Health and Hypertrophy Part 17)
Note that some of the information in this piece is taken from Dr. Herman Pontzer’s brilliant book Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism (India, USA). Dr. Herman Pontzer has been living with hunter gatherers and studying their lifestyle and diet for a long time. If you like this series, I highly recommend picking up a copy […]
B2B Sales Advice: Only Talk to People With Decision Making Power
As your business grows, you will eventually start looking for B2B customers. It is an entirely different type of customer than B2C: If you charge $250k a year for your product/service, you can get to $1M ARR with just 4 B2B customers. This sounds huge and “impossible” to people who’ve never dealt with corporations before, […]
Don’t Waste Your 20s (How to Maximize Your Twenties) PART 2
Continued from part 1. 3) Build an online business and be financially free Your 20s are the perfect time to build an online business. Again, this is the decade where you have tons of energy, motivation, ability to work long hours, minimal family responsibilities, but most importantly: Even small amounts of money feel like big […]
What Girls Mean by “I Want to Find Myself”
Women are creatures of emotion and they like to constantly be bombarded with different emotions. If you disagree with this, you are either naive or inexperienced with women (usually both). All women want to live a life full of different kinds of emotions. It gives their life vibrancy and color. In their understanding, feeling emotions […]
Don’t Waste Your 20s (How to Maximize Your Twenties) PART 1
I am now closer to 40 than I am to 20. But I remember turning 20 like it was yesterday. More than a decade goes by in the blink of an eye. I managed to cover a lot of ground in my 20s, so much so that I can now just coast if I choose […]
How to Set Yourself Up for a Productive New Year
A Happy New Year to you and your family. Hope you’ve had a great year and achieved all you set out to achieve. It was hard work, and you should take the last week of the year a little easy to rest, review the year, and plan for the upcoming one. I was meaning to […]