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Michael Reibel Boesen
2023-12-08T11:36:41Z
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/33270
2023-12-08T11:31:58Z
2023-12-08T11:36:41Z
š An ode to infrastructure
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<div>Almost done with 2023. And it sure is something right? No new pandemics (maybe?), a pointless war in Europe, a fossil fueled COP28, and endless climate warnings, protests etc that the media has stopped caring about.<br><br>Billions of dollars raised in funding for climate startups though. It feels like everyone and their mother/father has a climate fund at this point.<br><br>Yet weāre still heading to a weird and scary place, arenāt we?<br><br>Look outside.<br><br>Whereās the electricity that are too cheap to meter?<br>Why donāt we have solar on top of all buildings?<br>Why is there still such as a thing as NIMBYism when it comes to wind turbines?<br>Where are the freeways that charge your car as you go?<br>Why are we still flying places? Why arenāt trains more convenient? Where are the avatars that are not in the uncanny valley?<br>Why do we still have millions of km of pipelines transporting black dirty stuff all around the world? (And why are still building them?)<br>Why do we still have millions of km of pipelines transporting bad smelling gassy stuff (that have a big tendency to escape) all around the world? (And why are we still funding them?)<br>Why do many places still have power cables and telephone wires floating in the air on poles?<br>Why donāt we have internet globally yet?<br>Why do we insist on that the only way to fill up a car is to go somewhere and put some stuff (gasoline, hydrogen, electricity) into it no matter how inconvenient that model is?<br>Whereās the wireless charging of everything?<br>Why are aging electrical cables lighting wildfires all over the world?<br><br>If you look everywhere outside our infrastructure of the world is so damn old. Look at your smartphone. How many times have you changed it in the past decade? Everything with a computer inside has been replaced many many times these past decades. Software has that power for better or worse. It can change change everything that has a computer inside with click of a button.<br><br>Try to think about all the complex steps that needs to happen to bring that smartphone in your hand and mind might explode. Silica needs to be mined and processed to make the chips, glass etc. Fossil fuels will need to be mined to produce the plastic. It will need to be assembled in a giant factory. Then operating systems and software will need to be written to make it work. And finally a developer will need to write the apps that use ever day to run on it. What it seems that most people care about today is the very top layer of the iceberg. The software, the apps. But underneath that is a gigant layer of infrastructure. From mining, to processing materials, to logistics, to power production, engines, fuels, etc. And then there's bringing fuel and electricity to ALL those machines that are used in each of the steps. And then bringing fuel and electricity to those machines that bring fuel and electricity to those machines.<br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--gif">
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</figure><br><br>Infrastructure is hard for many reasons. Primarily because governments are sitting on it. To do something about it you usually need to get permission to do something or even worse participate in, God forbid, public tenders which you know some consultancy company will win, a company whose sole purpose in life is to milk tax revenue from governments around the world and use it to buy faster Ferraris while they charge millions of dollars to change the color of a button. (Ugh sorry for that detour, that's for another post).<br><br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--jpg">
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</figure><br><br>Still to me for these exact reasons infrastructure is the most exciting thing ever. Do you think Standard Oil quite possibly the single most literally (unfortunately <em>very literally</em>) world dominating company of the world (now of course split into multiple smaller companies (Exxon among them) to make it look less dangerous or something š¤·āāļø) got to where it was today because it sells fossil fuels? It got to where it was because it built infrastructure that enabled fossil fuels to be sold. Just like Tesla (and other car manufacturers) today builds charging networks to enable more EVs to be sold.<br><br>Infrastructure is dirty AF which means thereās a huge shift in infrastructure coming (either that or we all drown). All those terrawatts today being produced by fossil fuels will need to come from clean sources of electricity and the devices that used to be happy to gorge themselves on fossil fuels now needs to be repurposed or replaced with ones that run clean electricity (or other kinds of energy).<br><br>This is going to make the internet boom of the late 90s look like a recession.<br><br>Fuck yes itās hard.<br>Fuck yes itās risky.<br>Fuck yes itās regulated AF<br><br>But OMG this is where the future is.<br><br>Think of what we can do with infrastructure today if we just designed it right this time. <br>Think of local micro grids that supply towns and homes with electricity from clean renewable sources.<br>Think about all the air pollution that we never have to smell and die from ever again.<br>Think of the oil spills or gas leaks that don't get to destroy towns, forests, animals and people ever again.<br><br>But we need to be smart about it. Most importantly infrastructure should be <strong>invisible</strong>. Cities and towns are for the living, not inanimate ugly objects. You should never have to look or smell a gas station ever again. Electricity for your car should just be where you need it not inside a big ugly fridge like structure. Replace the fossil fuel power plants with solar and convert the power plants into hipster condos, whatever it takes. <br><br>Climate change is one giant infrastructure problem. Donāt take my word for it. Take my all-time scientist crush <a href="https://youtu.be/gsHnrBVr-2k">Saul Griffiths</a> (many) word(s) for it.<br><br>Software ate the world, but it's not gonna cut it this time. Infrastructure is the only thing that can save it.</div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/33052
2023-11-29T15:04:33Z
2023-11-29T15:04:33Z
-8C and the power of framing
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<div><strong><em>I'm 40 years old, male and I love cold exposures. STOP! I know it's a clichƩ but hear me out. You HAVE to do them too.</em></strong><br><br><em>It's -8C outside and I've just stripped naked except for my underpants. I open the door and walk out into the snowy outside behind my house. I set the timer for 15mins and take a few long deep breaths and sit down on our bench out back. Quite quickly the shivering start and my mind starts to yell: "WTF are you doing? Get in!". But I resist, "no, I want this!". My feet are the first to go. They hurt but after a minute or so they just stop feeling anything really. I look at my hands and to my surprise I see a bit of water vapour arise from them. <br><br>About 4 mins later though and they're numb too. I'm used to this. I've been doing cold exposures for more than a year now, mostly using the cold water in my bathtub or shower, but today I skipped the bath and opted for mother nature instead to embrace me with her cold. <br><br>At 8 mins I hit the cruising phase. Not really feeling very cold, just a slight shiver. It's nice. I can feel the snow hitting my naked skin, almost feel it melt and see it stick to my beard. My hands are white almost devoid of blood. A bird just landed right next to me on my carport roof, and looks at me strangely. I think. Maybe I'm just imagining the strangeness of it's look TBH. Pretty sure the bird is really there. <br><br>At 12mins and my hands start to really hurt and I consider stopping. But I got to get to 15mins. I'm not really shivering a whole lot. I can just feel a very slight tremble. But my hands are starting to bother me. Before this I was thinking about going for 20mins instead of 15 but now my hands are really hurting and it intensifies over the next minute or so.<br><br>At 15mins I clumsily take this selfie with my phone and get inside. The phone almost slips from my dead hands.<br></em> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--jpg">
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</figure><em><br><br>I get in and do my usual rutine: A quick warm shower to get the blood rushing into my cold extremities and then back into my vitals causing yet another surge of shivering. However, this time, compared to on Monday where I took a bath in my bathtub with water at 12C (the lowest it can go this time of year) I don't shiver nearly as much. It's more felt as a slight tightening of the big muscles in my chest and thighs mostly. But the clarity of mind and feeling of being light and quick hits. And I'm off singing my head off to the Melvins - Honey Bucket, air drumming and air riffing as hard as possible. </em>Ā <br><br>Evaluating my new nature-based routine I would say that the effects are probably similar to a 14C bath tub. The vasoconstriction in feet and hands for some reason hurt quite a bit more. Maybe it's the speed at which it happens that makes the difference? I'm not sure. But it doesn't feel like my core temperature dropped as much as the 12C bathtub. Still being outside in nature (or as much nature as suburbia Copenhagen can be) instead of inside in a bathroom was a nice experience. The snow and the birds especially. Also the reason why -8C is less worse (in terms of shivering, which for some people can be considered worse - see later) than 12C is probably because it wasn't very windy, so the small insulating layer of air around my body is not disrupted for very long at a time. At least I think that's the effect.<br><br>At this point being 40 years old and male it almost feel like clichĆ© to write about cold exposure after this, which to many people is nothing more but a strange act of self-torture, has really gone mainstream with Dr. Andrew Huberman and fellow Dane Dr. Susanna SĆøberg. But hear me out, you really got to try this if you haven't done it already.<br><br><strong>The power of framing<br></strong>The stoics were masters of framing. In his excellent book The Stoic Challenge, William B. Irvine writes about a key stoic technique known as the "stoic test" strategy. Which is that whenever some sort of setback (i.e. bad thing, but don't mentally call it a bad thing or you're dead in the water, call it a setback instead) happen be quick to view it as just a "stoic test" - a benefit, which is that you get to show how good a stoic you have become. By doing this, whatever setback just happened suddenly becomes a good thing and boom you have employed the power of framing to feel better about the setback that just happened. <br><br>And with that, here's another cold story from yesterday:<br><br><em>It's -8C and I'm outside with pants, winter boots, t-shirt, sweater, a jacket, a hat and gloves on and together with my fellow Elby co-founder Lars I'm working on one of our charger prototypes. I'm trying my very best to screw some terminals to secure a small wire with a small screwdriver, but vasoconstriction has already kicked in in my hands so they're cold and numb. I keep on dropping the screwdriver. "Dammit, why the F- does it have to be so cold!" I'm blowing hot air into my cold hands trying to revive them for just a few seconds so I can secure this stupid wire to the prototype.</em> <br><br>The difference between being outside with lots of clothes on working on a prototype trying hard to curse the cold weather away and being almost naked and wilfully enjoying it are two very different experiences. Some people are just intrinsically very good at this framing exercise. My girlfriend for instance is amazing at this. Even in the midst of total chaos at home she can pause and say "Isn't it just great that we can choose to view this as a test of our patience?" I typically just grumble on about how unfair things has to be. Depending on whether or not I got my cold exposure because... <br><br><strong>Two ways to cope: Psychological or physiological<br></strong>Up until a year ago my main strategy was a mix of stoicism and mindfulness. Trying to do what my girlfriend is intrinsically good at. Trying with all my might/mind to see feelings and thoughts for mere appearances in consciousness and mere "opinions" to be ignored at will has worked sometimes. But not for the truly bad stuff. I just never managed to get it to work there. This is the <strong>psychological</strong> strategy. Using your mind to feel better about things such as employing the "stoic test" strategy or similar.<br><br>After starting on cold exposures though, I've come to the conclusion that what works best for me is to build rutines around stuff that <strong>physiologically</strong> makes my energy soar. Obviously, getting enough sleep is a key but often an impossible thing to get with young kids and a busy work-life. So to me the main part of my physiological strategy for coping is cold exposures. The 2.5x kick in dopamine, higher than cocaine, is high enough to leave me floating most days. That's why I try to do them every other day - and now with winter coming hopefully even more. But also things like listening to music that really get's me psyched or taking supplements like Tongkat Ali, which should raise ones free levels of testosterone which should psychologically according to Huberman make effort feel good. By doing all these small things that will buffer my energy it is as if I'm not hit as hard by stuff that happens. Whether it's kids acting crazy or something much worse, I'm just not as affected by it. And interestingly, it makes the psychological tricks of mindfulness or stoicism even easier to use. <br><br><strong>You gotta do it</strong><br>So I know you hate it. I know you hate feeling cold. I know you hate the feeling of cold water hitting you. But really if you're struggling to cope with daily life do you self a huge favour and start doing cold exposures. Start with 5seconds in the shower on full cold, then 10, then 20. Just add 10 every day. Key trick is breathing deep and slowly, that will calm you mind. To me the differences in state of mind appear almost immediately. Even with short durations. But you WILL hate it up until you can do about 1.5mins (for me at least), then your mind starts to associate the (at least willful application of) cold with dopamine (I think that's the mechanism?) and then you will start to love it. I promise.<br><br>NB! Obviously and hereby a disclaimer be very careful with cold temperatures as they can cause hypothermia which can be fatal.</div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/32845
2023-11-21T16:50:36Z
2023-11-22T09:13:47Z
šDrone photogrammetry on a budget
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<div><em>In this quick post Iām going to go over ways to get started with photogrammetry if youāre on a budget. Iām going to present in detail one open source solution that I personally believe so far as it all except that it can be a bit daunting to install. But contrary to all other tools itās actually free.</em><br><br>The past year I've been working on improving my drone flying and photography skills and in general have been enjoying myself taking various videos and pictures of family on vacation as well as some nature shots. And I can only say that practice definitely makes you better š¤.<br><br>But one of the applications of drones that I'm the most psyched about and consequently have watched the most Youtube videos about is photogrammetry, where you use the data the drone captures to create everything from 3D models to highly detailed maps and even more advanced data analyses like plant health and other things. But what have been holding me back for a while was the unavailability of tools where you could just get started without having to pay a fortune.<br><br>DroneDeploy - probably one of the most used solutions out there - costs 329$/month <strong>IF</strong> you pay <strong>annually š¤Ŗ</strong>. That's just insane. A few tools does it slightly cheaper, such as 3DF Zephyr which even have a free version where you're limited to 50 images in a 3D model for instance. If you're just starting out and just want to see what your new "toy" (that's not legally a toy) can do then these costs are quite prohibitive.<br><br>So in this post I'm going to look a bit at two options for 3D modelling, where one of them can also do more than that.Ā <br><br></div><h1>Luma Labs</h1><div>This was the first software I found which is actually free and takes AFAIK a quite different approach to 3D modelling by the fact that it uses machine learning to create a machine learning model of the subject your photographing. All it takes is one orbit around the subject, create an account, hit upload and boom. you got yourself a nice 3D model. Sure is easy and fast to use. And itās some what fast to generate too, 30-60mins or so..<br><br><a href="https://lumalabs.ai/embed/7f7e346c-32fd-43f8-96e6-8d700998b818?mode=sparkles&background=%23ffffff&color=%23000000&showTitle=true&loadBg=true&logoPosition=bottom-left&infoPosition=bottom-right&cinematicVideo=undefined&showMenu=false">Click this link</a> to one of my models at Luma Labs<br><br>And as long as you donāt zoom in these looks ok. Certainly I like how it captures the colors of the scene. But if you zoom in š„“. I tried various ways to enhance the quality like using higher res video but didnāt help at all. So this was unfortunately, when I started to look elsewhere.<br><br></div><h1>WebODM</h1><div>I had almost given up and was considering to try 3DF Zephyr or Pix4D, when I found WebODM. WebODM is open source, so not only is it free but you can even check and try to understand how it works as well as extend it if you want to. This is also great because you can literally build your own little private DroneDeploy and scale the costs if you want to. They offer to ways to install: Using github and one using an installer which you pay for (starts at $57 so still a lot cheaper, considering that this is a one-time fee and not a monthly recurring). The installer is obviously the easiest solution but if youāre looking to either just try it out or want to use it for free then installing it via github is the option to go for. Down below Iām going to go over how to do it on a mac if youāre looking to try it out (and not familiar with the terminal). It really is very simple even if you cringe at the word āterminalā and ācommand lineā.<br><br>So what does it do? Well thatās the cool thing, it quite literally does most of the things that DroneDeploy and similar software does. It does Orthomosaics, elevation models, 3D models, even plant health from NDVI, VARI or whatever kind of sensors you have, you can analyze multispectral data and yeah, just about anything you would expect from a fully fledged Drone Deploy suite. See <a href="https://www.opendronemap.org/webodm/">here</a> for the full list of features. So far Iāve only played around with Orthomosaics, 3D models and plant health (with VARI) and is really impressed so far. <br><br>If you wondering how itās doing compared to the competition they made a side-by-side comparison and claim that itās similar or even better. Check out <a href="https://opendronemap.github.io/UAVArena/">this link</a> for the side by side comparison. Hereās for instance a side-by-side comparison of an orthomosaic:<br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--jpeg">
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</figure><br><br>One thing to note is resource usage on your machine. While the minimum requirements are 4GB RAM I ran out of my limit of 8GB trying to process a 48MP 3D model with only 50ish images. So probably as they write at least 16GB is recommended for processing large or highly detailed models. But to me thatās acceptable or a free solution. However, when it comes to actually deploying this in the cloud, then you have to take the cost of the instance into account. For instance Amazon EC2 offers their t4g.xlarge with 4 CPUs and 16GB RAM for a total monthly price of around 96$/month. Still even if you did that itās still much cheaper than DroneDeploy or similar. <br><br>Finally, if youāre wondering about the license the software is licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0, which means you can use it for anything but thereās no warranty and theyāre not to be held liable.<br><br>Hereās fun little test model I made of small barn kind of thing in a park close to where I live. Here you also get an idea about the capabilities. Note that the plant health, orthomosaic and digital surface model I show in this was all generated from the images of the drone orbiting the house. Youāre not supposed to generate these 3 types of model using an orbit in this way, but even because of that kind of shitty data it still generated something meaningful.<br><br>Hereās the video of the model:<br><br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--downloadable attachment--mp4">
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</figure><br><br></div><h1>Installing WebODM, the hard easy way</h1><div>So if youāre up for it Iām going to show you how to install WebODM on a Mac the hard but easy way, i.e not using the paid installer but github. For a newbie who never opened the terminal before the instructions on the WebODM github page might be a bit frightening so I thought I would try to make it very simple and easy to follow here. So this is not written for software people as I assume all of you know homebrew, python, docker etc.<br><br><strong>Prerequisites<br></strong>First you need to install homebrew, which will enable you to install some other software you need more easily. Simply open the app āterminalā and then in the little text field type in the command below and hit ENTER.</div><pre>/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"</pre><div><br>After a little while that should complete and you now need to use that to install a few things. First in āterminalā type</div><pre>brew install python</pre><div><br>Then after that</div><pre>python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip</pre><div><br>These two commands install the python programming language and software that python uses to install stuff.<br><br>Then finally, in terminal again run</div><pre>brew install docker</pre><div>and then</div><pre>brew install docker-compose</pre><div><br>These two commands install docker, which is used to run the WebODM.<br><br>The software git should be installed already, but just to check run</div><pre>git --version</pre><div>if that prints out a version number of git then youāre good to go otherwise run</div><pre>brew install git</pre><div><br>This installs git, which is a program used for downloading the WebODM software.<br><br>For MacOS I found it a little weird but apparently to run the Docker daemon which is needed the only way I could get that to work was by installing the Docker Desktop app, so go to the App Store and search for Docker Desktop and install that.<br><br><strong>Install WebODM</strong><br>Ok now youāre done with the pre-requisites and you can copy this final command which will install WebODM.<br><br></div><pre>git clone https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/WebODM --config core.autocrlf=input --depth 1</pre><div><br>And now youāre ready to run it.<br><br><strong>Run WebODM<br></strong>To run WebODM all you need to do is to open terminal if you closed it and type</div><pre>cd WebODM
./webodm.sh start </pre><div><br>After a little while and a lot of output on the screen it will say something like this<br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--png">
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</figure><br>And if you do as it says all you need to do is to open a browser and type in the address http://localhost:8000.<br><br>To stop it simply open the terminal that is running and hit CMD+T to open a new tab then type</div><pre>./webodm.sh stop</pre><div><br>Note this doesnāt mean that your WebODM is live on the internet, itās just live on your machine, hence the name ālocalhostā. When you do this you should see a screen saying WebODM at the top and then āfirst projectā. If you ahead and click that you can upload images for your very first project. Just leave everything as it is and you can play with settings later and youāre then on your way to create your first models with WebODM - congrats!!<br><br><strong>A few quick notes on memory<br></strong>WebODM is quite hungry for memory, depending on the size of the datasets you use. This is admittedly the primary downside of running your own processing software. So here are 3 tips just to get you over the biggest hurdles. <br><strong><br></strong>First of all, I had to increase the memory available to WebODM in order to process models with many images. How you do that is by doing what this link is saying <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32834082/how-to-increase-docker-machine-memory-mac/39720010#39720010">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32834082/how-to-increase-docker-machine-memory-mac/39720010#39720010</a>Ā - basically just configure Docker to use more memory which is a simple as clicking a couple of buttons. On my 16GB machine I set mine to 14GB and the swap to 4GB. The machine gets sluggish when processing large models but it can do it without any issue.Ā <br><br>Secondly, it does use a lot of memory for large datasets. I have 16GB on my 2023 Macbook Pro and it has on a couple of times run out of memory. The only thing you can do then is to either lower the resolution of the dataset, exclude some images or find a machine with more memory.<br><br>Finally, an important note, if youāre not using it but just letting it sit idle in the background itās still holding whatever amount of memory was allocated to it which can cause your Mac to be a bit slow. So I would highly recommend to stop it when youāre not using it AND most importantly, quit Docker, which you simply do by clicking the little whale icon that has appeared with Docker Desktop and hit āQuitā. This will release the memory it had reserved.<br><br></div><h1>Conclusion</h1><div>So all in all, the only new issue you get with WebODM is memory usage which depending on the datasets youāre processing may or may not be an issue for you. Over the past weeks of using it it hasnāt been stopping me from doing what I was trying to do. And letās face it for the 4000$ you save you can buy yourself a decent machine to process the data you want.</div><div><br>I hope somebody found this useful. In future posts Iām going to dive into how to deploy WebODM to the cloud and use it for instance to share models with clients.</div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
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</figure></div><div><br></div><h1>TL;DR</h1><div>Just donāt. Read on for why.<br><br>ā<br><br></div><div>Back in 2015 I was working actively as a software freelancer, on a startup (which later became Corti) and running a small incubator at the Technical University of Denmark. At that time I had no kids, just myself and my girlfriend to answer to so after reading a couple of blogposts about it I decided to give polyphasic sleeping a try.Ā <br><br>In a nutshell (you can google this yourself for more info but please finish this post first), the basic idea behind polyphasic sleeping is to adjust your sleep to be more efficient by timing when you sleep to your circadian rhythm. At the same time you limit your sleep a lot and hereby you ārepartitionā (according to the polyphasic āliteratureā) your sleep meaning that you condense all your sleep phases into just the āperceived good stuffā: Deep sleep. Even one of the objective metrics you are encouraged to used by polyphasic sleep sites is how little you remember your dreams (which is so silly in so many ways).<br><br>The classic polyphasic sleep schedule is called the Uberman in which a person only sleeps 6x30mins naps (or even shorter) carefully spaced out across a full 24 hour period hereby leading to a total sleep time of 3h, hereby effectively releasing 4-5h of time where you can ā in my case ā code or do other stuff. The schedule I tried was called the Everyman 3 in which I slept for 3h ācoreā when I would normally go to bed and then 3x 20min naps spread out through the day. This lead to a total of 4hours of sleep and thus freeing up lots of time for coding and other things.Ā <br><br>I managed to keep this going from May and until September. And the only thing, at the time, that killed it for me was that I would so often fall asleep at meetings. Now the Michael version 2023 would say that if you can fall asleep during a meeting youāre probably not supposed to be in it (but thatās another matter for another post). Still it was a bit inconvenient to fall asleep at investor and customer meetings etc so I decided to stop because of that.Ā <br><br>At all times I at least claimed that I was feeling great. That I had no trouble thinking whatsoever and I really was quite productive. I got at least 4 more hours out of the day that I was spending working. I actually missed it at times over the years after I stopped. I missed the early completely dead silent mornings, where it was only me, a cup of coffee and my mac watching the sunrise. I felt like I had found some way to cheat life for more time. In addition, I felt that one thing I had gained from this experiment was the ability to fall asleep in a few seconds any time all the time something I still to this day believes does come from this experiment (but Iām not a doctor so I donāt know of course).<br><br></div><h1>But then I had kids</h1><div>Then in 2018 I became a dad and as all new parents know sleep stops. Or at least there are days where you feel like you might as well just not get down to bed again because you know your baby is going to wake again in the next 20 mins so why bother. I actually at that time started doing Everyman again because I was so desparate to just try something and to feel in control of my sleep again (ultimately scrapped it again pretty quickly because itās impossible to sleep at stable hours with kids also). <br><br>My hypothesis (and I should note of course that Iām no neuroscientist) of what I think happens with polyphasic sleeping is simply <strong>that the brain and body adapts to sleeping very little</strong>. Just as the brain and body seem to adapt to new situations and new environments over time so does it adapt to little sleep - is my hypothesis. Indeed among polyphasers the first period where youāre starting on your chosen schedule is known as āadaptationā and in general the period that will feel the most shit. But after that you come out ātriumphantā or so you think. Likely your brain just doused you with chemicals of some sort so you stay alive and donāt lie drooling on the floor.<br><br>So āadaptingā in this case doesnāt necessarily mean that the sleep deprived brain solves the problem in some other way - and you can now magically do without it. Like when you take an ice bath your blood vessels constrict to stop blood flow to non-vital organs and that does indeed make it possible for you to stay in the ice bath for some time. But it doesnāt solve the problem of the new cold environment youāre in. Stay too long and youāre bound for hypothermia anyway. Biology always wins.<br><br>As a new parent you adapt to the little sleep too. The first time you managed to scrape 5 hours together during a 10hour sleep period you feel horrible. The umpteenth time, less horrible and you actually feel like youāre āfunctioningā. But really you probably just adapted so you can actually live - and who knows maybe make a new baby and hereby evolution wins again.<br><br></div><h1>Polyphasic sleep is bad for you. Period</h1><div>But donāt take my word for it.<br><br>The past 3-4 months Iāve listened to just about everything that Andrew Huberman has put out through his Huberman Lab podcast and I recently learned in <a href="https://hubermanlab.com/dr-matthew-walker-the-science-and-practice-of-perfecting-your-sleep/">this episode</a> with the great Matt Walker (whom Iāve also followed quite a bit) that in 2021 a study was published that concluded very bluntly:<br> <br><em>1. The claims of benefits from polyphasic sleep schedules are not supported by scientific evidence.<br>2. Polyphasic sleep schedules and the sleep deficiency inherent in the schedules that are most highly promoted in popular culture have been associated with adverse physical and mental health, as well as with decreased performance.<br>3. Striving to adopt a schedule that significantly reduces the amount of sleep per 24 hours and/or fragments sleep into multiple episodes throughout the 24-hour day can have significant adverse consequences for daytime performance, mood and health; and is clearly not recommended.<br><br></em>And <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352721821000309">hereās a link to the study</a>. <br><br>While considering whether or not to do this polyphasic sleep experiment back in 2015 I spent a lot of time trying to get to the bottom of it from a scientific standpoint and I couldnāt find any clear indication that the benefits claimed by the polyphasic sleep community werenāt to be had. On the contrary once I started doing it I felt great, I felt productive and using a Fitbit I could see that evidence my sleep ārepartitionedā and that I could go into deep sleep for a much longer period of time during the core and much faster than before.<br><br>Later on through Dr. Hubermanās podcast I learned that thereās a linear relationship between REM sleep and mortality. The less you get the sooner you die. Plus listening through <a href="https://hubermanlab.com/master-your-sleep-and-be-more-alert-when-awake/">this</a>, <a href="https://hubermanlab.com/toolkit-for-sleep/v">this</a> and <a href="https://hubermanlab.com/sleep-toolkit-tools-for-optimizing-sleep-and-sleep-wake-timing/">this</a> of Hubermanās podcasts on sleep (along with the Matt Walker episode linked to above) makes it absolutely clear to me that thereās absolutely no reason in the world to try a polyphasic sleep schedule. Not unless you specifically want to die earlier, get Alzheimers, be less productive etc.<br><br>I hope this post will reach somebody who are considering to start a polyphasic sleep schedule. If you still want to do it after listening to Dr. Huberman then seriously, you should seek help.Ā <br><br>I tried it - it āworksā - in the sense that I didnāt die ā at least I didnāt in the 5 month period I did it. And I adapted, at least for my sleep deprived brain it looked like I adapted.Ā <br><br></div><h1>How I tried and failed to make myself a STOP button</h1><div>Maybe if youāre in your 20s reading this you might think: āSure but I have all this important stuff I need to do. I can risk a bit of Alzheimers. I wanna die when Iām young anyway so who cares. This guy clearly just didnāt drink enough coffeeā (ahem you should also check out Huberman Labās episode on coffee btw).<br><br></div><div>So final argument in this way too long blogpost is that I tried to setup a way for the logical side of my brain to stop the experiment in case I experienced some stuff out of the ordinary. And one of the things I did find in my research of polyphasic sleep schedules prior to starting it was that people apparently are poor at assessing how sleepy they are. So I needed some objective way to judge whether I was too sleepy and should stop my experiment. For that I found an app that through some reaction-type tests determined how mentally alert I was. I tried to use those scores as a way to say, ok if I get below this score then I should stop. The test is simple. A light will flash on the screen and you need to press a button as fast as you can. So the test measures your reaction time.<br><br>So I did those tests diligently after my 3h core and through out the day. And some of them I āacedā others I had multiple of whatās called a lapse where I totally mised that the light was flashing. As I āonlyā had maybe a couple of those out of 20ish flashes my sleep deprived brain just pushed those aside. Had I owned a car at the time a lapse would mean hitting a cyclist. Or pushing my cup of coffee off a table instead of grabbing it. Or accidentally wiping a production database. The fact that I just brushed those aside is mindblowing to me now.<br><br>Another big alarm bell that rang but I didnāt hear was that I would fall asleep every time I just sat still in a chair for more than 5-10 seconds. Those were also just brushed aside as nothing to be particularly concerned about.<br><br>Then there were those āzombie awakeningsā where you wake up to your real alarm bell after the 3h core and shutting off the alarm clock and go to sleep again and then when you wake in the morning have no clue why you slept past your alarm clock. Seriously - I thought my alarm clock was broken so later on I had two different alarms - one where I had to get out of bed to turn off, but I still managed to turn it off in this zombie state and I was not a sleep walker before that.<br><br>But really all of these appear to be my brainās way of yelling STOP THIS SHIT YOUāRE DOING RIGHT NOW! But I wasnāt really paying attention to all of that yelling, because, you guessed it, I was sleepy.</div><div><br>Itās getting late - Iām going to bed.<br><br>Just donāt. Please?<br><br>Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the above (<a href="mailto:reibel@hey.com">reibel@hey.com</a>).<br><br><br></div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/25301
2023-01-13T16:03:37Z
2023-01-13T16:09:23Z
āļøA cold bath a dayā¦
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</figure><br>Back in November I wrote a <a href="https://world.hey.com/reibel/30-days-of-wim-hof-e906af70">post on the Wim Hof Method</a> and Iāve been following the method until about mid-December, then I decided to try and do without the breathing exercises. The reason was simply that apart from the obvious benefits in terms of the number of pushups I could do that I wasnāt really sure that was where the benefits was coming from. That and I felt silly making the breathing exercises as I wasnāt really feeling I was getting anything out of it. Felt like I was wasting my time. Many people say they do get something out of them, so it might just not be for me.<br><br>So after doing only cold showers of which Iām now doing 10 minutes every day or every other day I can honestly say that this is where the mental and physical energy boost comes from that I have experienced over the past months.<br><br>So I was only very happy to stumble upon a podcast called <a href="https://hubermanlab.com">Huberman Lab</a>. As it turns out itās run by Andrew Huberman, whose a professor and neuroscientist at Stanford who have studied cold exposure, so he has a <a href="https://hubermanlab.com/using-deliberate-cold-exposure-for-health-and-performance/">full episode</a> dedicated to all the benefits of cold exposure.<br><br>And it was quite an amazing experience to listen to that episode because just about all benefits (and single downside) I feel Iāve already experienced. He also goes deep into the benefits of cold exposure in terms of metabolism, but Iām not so interested in that currently. So hereās a quick overview of the mental benefits which is what Iām seeking. For the full details I highly recommend listening to the episode or if youāre in a rush read his sum up of the episode <a href="https://hubermanlab.com/the-science-and-use-of-cold-exposure-for-health-and-performance/">here</a>.<br><br>Here goes:<br><br></div><ul><li>š<strong>Focus / mental sharpness: </strong>Iāve experienced a tremendous increase in my ability to focus and in my own words execute after doing a cold shower. The effect is particular strong right after getting out where my mind can go from feeling groggy after too little sleep to feeling crisp as a cold winter morning (really the best way I can describe it). Sometimes the feeling lingers for a full half-day before it wears off. I just feel stronger and more mentally āfastā than usual. According to Dr. Huberman this is due to the increased levels of norephinephrine and noradrenaline which always increase when one is subjected to cold water (and other stressors).</li><li>šŖ<strong>Willpower / resilience / become less reflexive: </strong>I wasnāt really looking for this one but it is probably now the main reason why I do it. I have two kids (0 and 4y) and as anyone with babies and toddlers can probably attest to they can be quite a handful at times. After I started to do this my mental energy to just not let all the craziness get to me has increased so much that I now very rarely feel completely burned out after 3 hours of the āwolf-hourā prior to bedtime š
. According to Dr. Huberman you simply train your willpower by continually exerting a top-down control over brain states that regulate reflexive states, i.e the urge to get out or the urge to snap at a 4 yr old who just poured ketchup all over the floor (yep that happened yesterday). These chaotic events of having kids now simply doesnāt bother me as much so instead of snapping which will yield an explosion and even more craziness I feel more in control and I can simply take the more controlled action of talking with him about why he did it and that he shouldnāt do it again (which he may or may not do obviously).</li><li>š¤Ŗ<strong>Happiness:</strong> Iām using Day One as a journaling app and has been for 10+ years. It has this feature where it reminds one of entries I made x years ago on the same day. And these are at times quite a depressing read. There are many times where Iāve written something along the lines of āthis must be the bottomā or āIām not feeling very goodā. But since starting on Wim Hof (and thus cold exposure) I havenāt felt this way even once. Which is really amazing for me at least. And the scientific explanation of that is that cold exposure releases dopamine. The happiness molecule. And as I learned in the episode apparently if I drink 2-3 cups of coffee prior to cold exposure there will be more receptors for dopamine in my brain which will further enhance the effect (currently trying to work that in to my daily routine). Itās so funny, because I actually started on WHM during the summer too but ended up skipping it because I also started running at the same time and I was so sure that the increases I experienced in happiness came from the runs that I stopped WHM š. Turns out it was the other way around. (I know running should have similar effects but I have never ever been able to feel that)</li></ul><div><br>As for the single downside:</div><ul><li><strong>š Donāt do them just before bed: </strong>The reason is simply that the boost in mental energy, sharpness and happiness isnāt really conducive (for me at least) to go to bed. Whenever I feel this way I instinctly want to utilize it and want to work on something or do something with that energy. So this has caused me to stay up way too late. But yeah, thatās a very small price to pay. Also doing them in the evening seems a bit like a waste because then I have all that energy when Iām really trying to go to bed.</li></ul><div><br>So whatās next?<br><br></div><ul><li><strong>šæIce shower -> šIce bath:</strong> I want to transition into using an actual cold bath instead of a shower for a couple of key reasons: First of all a 10 minute cold shower wastes too much water I think and secondly it doesnāt get very cold. I can get it down to about 10C if turned up on full speed. So I think I would rather take colder ice baths that are shorter in length and also:</li><li><strong>ā¬ļøScaling walls: </strong>Another key reason why I want to go for ice baths instead of showers is to try what Dr. Huberman suggests about scaling āwallsā instead of staying in for an increasing amount of time. A wall is basically represented by the feeling of wanting to get out now (or donāt wanting to get in). This is how an increase in norepinephrine and noradrenalline is felt (as far as I understand) thus to further scale the benefits above I must aim towards climbing more walls than just the single one of not really wanting to get in. Currently in the shower, even after 10 minutes I have only encountered that one wall.</li><li><strong>āļøCoffee:</strong> I want to try and drink 2-3 cups of coffee before my cold exposure to see if I can feel any noticeable increase in happiness.</li></ul><div><br>I have a small vacation coming up in a couple of weeks but when I get back from that I want to get an ice bath to try leveling this thing up!Ā <br><br>Wish me luck! š¤</div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/24762
2022-12-14T14:35:14Z
2022-12-14T14:35:26Z
š·The wine way to experience the world
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<div><em>Or how to train your sensory organs to experience the world more closely</em></div><div><br>When was the last time you sat down and fully experienced experience? Meditation and wine does that for me every time, but at times a glass of wine can be more fun. As humans in the 21st century weāre not really used to using our sensory organs very much. We hide inside to protect from the cold / heat. We eat heavily salted and spiced foods to try to bring some inch of taste experience to the forefront of our consciousness. We tend to confuse our sensory input with thoughts. Itās 8C outside, must be cold. But is it really? Whether it is or not probably depend on the wind, sun, rain ā a whole range of our parameters and not just the temperature.</div><div><br>Turning the topic back to wineing and dining. I had a major revelation regarding meat recently, where I suddenly realized by paying close attention that what I thought was the taste of meat was really the taste of the sauce and the spices and the vegetables. The meat does little else than add texture to a dish IMO. Which can be important enough, but I clearly had confused texture with taste. I thought I needed meat for the dish to taste less bland, but I realized that I donāt.</div><div><br>Learning to use your senses properly increases the resolution of the world you perceive. And wine is an excellent medium to start training your senses and increase the resolution. Here are the 6 levels of sensory experience (that Iāve reached so far) when it comes to training your senses with wine.</div><div><strong><br>š¶ Level 1: āItās wineā</strong></div><div><img src="https://gopher.hey.com/1386x938,q85,sWo3wg8Skfpd_jVcvSzKRjVr2EQkqC9dAWcV6MmL6Hc8=/https://miro.medium.com/max/1386/1*JgPYwkr3Dx2bbimmMHq7yQ.jpeg" width="693" height="469" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></div><div><br>Weāve all been there. Somebody is clearly receiving some kind of nasal and oral orgasm from sniffing and drinking a glass of wine and then they ask you the dreaded: āWhat do you taste?ā. You sniff the glass, you sip, your mind is racing depending on the level of social pressure youāre in, you may begin to sweat and finally you utter: āTastes like ā¦ wine?ā. Thatās it: Youāre level 1.</div><div><br>At this point though youāre very likely confusing your sense of smell and taste with your sense of vision. You see the glass in your hand, your know itās wine, so you answer āitās wineā. This is the first hint towards realizing that thereās a level of experience that youāre not experiencing. Maybe you read a wine review and thought āthatās bullshit, nobody can taste white flowers and fresh peach in glass of wineā.</div><div><strong><br>š§ Level 2: āMaybe strawberry?ā</strong></div><div><img src="https://gopher.hey.com/1216x888,q85,svQBiMv6zDHuWBRTYWryKV4JmRrXpEQKfoCLrmjdvIfA=/https://miro.medium.com/max/1216/1*TPT2UOQK5_3rvMdEyfF3Tw.jpeg" width="608" height="444" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></div><div><br>You might leave the encounter from level 1 thinking āwhat a pompous jerkā. But you might also leave intrigued or maybe something else triggers you to think that there might be something there that youāre missing. If thatās the case you start paying a bit more attention to what your sensory organs actually tell you and not just what your mind tells you. The next time you have a glass of wine in your hand you stick your nose in, take a sip and think hard. āMaybe strawberry?ā Thatās it! You have very likely just identified your very first aroma or flavor in a glass of wine.</div><div><br>You might notice that I wrote aroma <em>or</em> flavor. Theyāre not the same thing. An aroma is something you smell and a flavor is something you taste. Where did you sense the strawberry? When you smelled it? Or when you tasted it? In any case, very roughly 80% of tasting is actually smelling due to the passage from the back of your mouth to your nose. But as it turns out some aromas or flavors are more easy to detect one way or the other.</div><div><strong><br>š© Level 3: Black currant, eucalyptus, and a hint of toast and vanilla</strong></div><div><img src="https://gopher.hey.com/1320x882,q85,sfrKe9N_qrDnAmcLx2XzupzSu6znyg-cF0kOYAWuBmuI=/https://miro.medium.com/max/1320/1*btT-BSYxx0ySnUPWx-TfKA.jpeg" width="660" height="441" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></div><div><br>Then you start going deeper. You try to smell more things. You pay attention to what you experience. Maybe you buy the Winefolly book and learn that different wines have different aroma / flavor profiles. So you start to more or less structured go through the different smells you know in your head, thinking: āIs this red fruit? Black fruit? Herbs? Vegetables? Stones?ā And you learn to mentally check off each item as you settle on one. āRed fruit, yes this is strawberry and perhaps raspberryā you think. So the more you āpracticeā (as we call ādrinking wineā in the wine biz) the better your resolution of identifying aromas/flavors become.</div><div><br>But then you happened upon a video of wine expert drinking a glass of wine. You saw how they slurped the wine and almost chewed it. Then one day you try the same and ā¦ š¤Æ</div><div><strong><br>š Level 4: Dry, med+ tannins, high acidity, med alcohol, med+ body, med+ intensity and med+ finish</strong></div><div><img src="https://gopher.hey.com/1364x750,q85,skF-NSb9g3IUw7ZNotkwe97LRDgP4P_OGAlSzPI2C_P4=/https://miro.medium.com/max/1364/1*aU2z6a9Svvrd62GcdPDnWg.jpeg" width="682" height="375" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></div><div><br>In one instance you realize that thereās a whole set of the experience you have been ignoring: How the wine feels. This is something that you can only sense on your palate. How sweet is it? How tannic is it? Is the acidity high or low? How about alcohol level? Body? Intensity and how long is the finish? All these parameters has a just as important impact on how you experience the wine. Once you realize that you start to get to know a lot better what you like. āOh I donāt like Pinot Noirs because theyāre always thin and acidicā and āGimme more of that full bodied, juicy vanilla bomb of a Chardonnayā.</div><div><br>Then one day you start to think about how vanilla ended up in your wine. āI mean I can understand the fruit flavors, but vanilla? Did somebody put it in there?ā</div><div><strong><br>š§āšØ Level 5: āI like heavily oaked Chardonnay and Zinfandelsā</strong></div><div><img src="https://gopher.hey.com/1242x986,q85,swnyT-oFgg2nyLVCd7DVOEex1b3hm-Mxapi-fIbaElIg=/https://miro.medium.com/max/1242/1*tLjXs5z02lt2ZNPwNykkuA.jpeg" width="621" height="493" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></div><div><br>Thatās when you realize that the lovely full-bodied Chardonnays that you so enjoy is made in the winery. You realize that itās because the winemaker aged it in new oak (or more likely with oak staves) and the new oak imparted flavors of vanilla into the wine . You learn that the buttery notes you sometimes get in these come from something called malolactic conversion. Even though you have no clue what it is, you still say it at awkward moments when you drink a glass of wine with your friends āOh you can really taste the malolactic conversion in this thingā.</div><div><br>Then one day somebody served you a glass of red wine, blind. He just tells you to try it. You donāt know what it is. āHmm medium ruby color, strawberry, raspberry, red cherries, vanilla, dry, medium tannins, medium acidity, med alcohol, med body (maybe even med+ body), med intensity, medium finish. Hmm is this a Pinot Noir, that I so hate? No it canāt be. Itās too juicy, too fruity, too pleasant on the palate.ā Finally you ask what it is and your host says itās a Pinot Noir and your mind explodes.</div><div><strong><br>š Level 6: Itās all connected!</strong></div><div><img src="https://gopher.hey.com/1286x1012,q85,szx5yYyQvd7-nsxSe96oAWkqliIPKTqmP_w6Zq5mmPB4=/https://miro.medium.com/max/1286/1*UOkQaEyKCrlIzlIUidaRzw.jpeg" width="643" height="506" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></div><div><br>Why did this Pinot Noir taste and especially feel so different than all other Pinotās youāve tried? Itās from a warm climate. Acidity is lower. The winemaker worked the cap a lot to ensure the deeper color and higher tannins. The fruit flavors are more present, more warm. You realize that you donāt hate Pinot Noirās you just hate poorly made ones. You realize that when we turn grapes into wine they express the climate and soils theyāre grown in. That slightly smoky, matchstick like aroma you always got from a Chablis? You realize that is due to the rocky fossilized old oister shells the vines stood on. But you also learn that winemakers can use cheap tricks to make a bad wine palatable. Suddenly you hate full bodied vanilla bomb Chardonnays because of what they stand for: Shit grapes, grown in a blistering hot climate, with lots of irrigation, made with fake oak, in an industrial agriculture system where nothing is alive except the zombie grapes that grows plump and sugary on the vines. You start to appreciate the light bodied Pinot Noirs with their fragile earthy, floral, red fruit aromas with maybe a slight hint of bell pepper because you then know that the winemaker really struggled with cold weather that year.</div><div><br>Every wine you taste suddenly tell a story. A story of what the weather was like. How the grapes were harvested. How they were fermented. How they were matured. And much more, which I can only believe must expand as you grow better at identifying and associating the minute details of this magical beverage with the environment it was made in.</div><div><br>Cheers š·š·</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/24356
2022-11-25T11:43:49Z
2022-11-25T11:43:49Z
šāāļø A magic 15K
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<div>As you can already see on this very short blog I seem to have a love-hate relationship with running. At times I love it, and at times I really hate it and canāt get out. Today was the latter. The plan according to my half marathon plan was to run 15K. I had slept about 4h on average the past week and lazy Michael was fast trying to convince me that I shouldnāt go out because it would very likely suck. But fit Michael managed to convince lazy Michael to shut the fuck up because I also missed a run on Wednesdays. So I decided to out with 3 very concrete goals to be completed in the prioritized order.<br><br></div><ol><li>Run the entire thing with no breaks at my usual long run pace around 6:50min/km</li><li>Just try to have fun</li><li>Just do more than 10K</li></ol><div><br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--jpg">
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</figure><br><em>One day HerstedhĆøje Iām going to get you. But not today.</em></div><div><br>Before this run I just barely finished 10K with no breaks a few weeks ago after employing extensive Wim Hof power breathing throughout the run. And precisely a week ago I was supposed to run 12.5K but ended up running 14.25K after a wrong turn and I was running on empty the final 3-4K. <br><br>So I donāt know what the fuck happened today. But I somehow managed to run the entire freaking run with no breaks! No fucking breaks! The longest Iād ārunā before was those 14.25K which I was walking the last 3K almost. Now I just ran 15K with no breaks. What gives?<br><br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--jpg">
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</figure><br><em>Pace graph, look at that flat line. And yes itās a measurement error at just after 13K. I did NOT stop there. I think I just passed one of the anti-bike rail thingies which might have caused my pace to look like I was stopping.</em><br><br>Looking at the stats one thing makes little sense. Usually I can feel the sting of lactic acid as soon as my pulse goes beyond 160-165ish. Today I had run an entire hour at threshold (>169).<br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--jpg">
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</figure><br><br>Itās times like these I really try to ask myself WTF did I do different?<br><br></div><ol><li><strong>Time of run?</strong> I went out a bit earlier than usual. Usually I run around 11:30 right around the time where Iām usually starting to get hungry for lunch. Today I ran at 10:00 so perhaps I just had more energy?</li><li><strong>Pace?:</strong> I really focussed very strongly on maintaining my pace around 6:40 and 6:50 especially in the beginning. I was really stepping on the break for the entire first 3K.</li><li><strong>Form? </strong>I was also really trying to remember to lean forward most of the time. I noticed that everytime I remembered that my pace would increase a little bit so I could then step off the throttle and thus save energy.</li><li><strong>Wim Hof? </strong>Last night I broke my pushups record by doing 39 push-ups without breathing. Is the Wim Hof breathing starting to do their thing?</li><li><strong>Lack of sleep? </strong>This oneās really weird because it goes against everything you read about running. But there seem to be a strong relation for me between sleeping poorly and performing well on a run.</li><li><strong>New playlist? </strong>Found a great AC/DC playlist. Could that be it? THUNDERSTRUCK! š¤</li><li><strong>Great guided run?</strong> I run with Nike Running Club app primarily because of the nice design and the great guided runs. This one seemed to be able to read my mind and was very supportive. Highly recommended.</li></ol><div><br>Possibly itās one big mix. But never the less this was a great run in sometimes a sea of bad ones.</div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/24348
2022-11-24T22:23:47Z
2022-11-24T22:31:26Z
š·š Tasting climate change
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<div>Letās face it Iām deep into the bottle. <br><br>That came out wrong. <br><br>I have a quite deep interest in wine. It was a bottle of Domaine Bachey-Legros Vielles Vignes Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru āLes Petit Closā 2013 or in other words a bottle of fermented Chardonnay grapes from old vines harvested in 2013 from a premier cru (2nd best tier) vineyard called Les Petit Clos in the Chassagne-Montrachet area in Burgundy, France. <br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--jpg">
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</figure><br><em>There is Le Petits Clos š</em><br><br>Back then I was just completely baffled that a wine could taste like that. Back in 2018 it was for sure like throwing pearls at a pig š· but something triggered me. As I learned more and more I realized how magical a beverage wine is. Since 2020 Iāve done wine tastings for family and friends and in 2022 took it to the next level by actually enrolling in a formal wine education via the WSET (for which Iām currently studying for level 3 and probably the last level for now as I have <a href="http://reibel.io">other things to work on</a>).<br><br>But anyway, letās move on.<br><br>Hereās how you make it (in very broad strokes) - read from left to right.<br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--jpg">
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</figure><br>We all know what grapes taste like. Like grapes right? But wine doesnāt taste like grapes usually with exceptions e.g. varieties like Muscat. The process of fermentation that the yeast carries out transforms the sugary juice into alcohol but also all kinds of aromatic compounds. This means that you can have a Chardonnay that tastes like a pineapple, a Pinot Noir that tastes like cherries, a Merlot that tastes like plum, a Cabernet Sauvignon that tastes like black currant just to take a few āstereotypesā. True, the winemaker can āadd flavorsā to the wine by maturing it in new oak (which will add flavors like vanilla to the wine) or encourage malolactic conversion which will make the wine taste like butter and other things.<br><br><em>(You can of course do the same with any kind of fruit, but vitis vinefera (the vine species used for wine production) is the only one (to my knowledge) that can develop such complex aromas and are this temperature dependent.)</em><br><br>The true underlying so called primary flavors that are the by-product of fermentation of the grape juice and nothing else have an interesting property: Which <strong>flavors develop are heavily dependent on the temperature</strong> <strong>in which the grapes are grown</strong> (as well as soil type but that influences the more mineral part of the flavor spectrum like stones etc as well as structure - another story). <br><br>This means that a if Pinot Noir from Casablanca Valley in Chile (which is one of the colder areas) tastes like bell pepper, it means that the grower had to (or chose to ignore) unripe berries. The same grape grown just a few kilometers away in the much hotter Central Valley will taste almost like red fruit jam (if it can even grow there). And the change is gradual: A Chardonnay from a cold area like Chablis will taste of apples and lemon. But a Chardonnay from warm Napa Valley will taste of tropical fruits like pineapple and mango and likely also a bit of citrus fruit. So the spectrum of flavors for each grape variety change with rising temperature. Chardonnay goes from apples (cold) to pineapple (hot) for instance. <br><br><em>(Stop and reflect about that for a second. Isnāt that insane? It kind of reflects growth of apple trees and pineapple trees as well. Apple trees can grow in cold climates and pineapples in hot climates. Is yeast the masters of the universe or what?)<br></em><br>But flavors are not the only thing that changes with temperature. The so called structural components like acidity, body and alcohol also change. In cold conditions grapes will have less sugar and high acidity. High acidity will make the wine feels lighter on the palate. In warm conditions acidity will drop hence usually causing an increase in body which in large part is due to higher alcohol which adds weight on the palate.<br><br>I once heard the great wine youtuber and Master of Wine (yes thatās a degree and in fact the highest possible) <a href="https://youtube.com/@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine">Konstantin Baum</a> say that āthere are no climate deniers among wine enthusiastsā (or something like that canāt find the exact quote nor video I heard it in). An interesting sidenote: The Koch brothers of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochland">fossil fuel fame and fortune</a> are known for having an <a href="https://youtu.be/GX88VKyJ7h0">insane wine collection</a>.<br><br>And this is why there are no climate deniers among wine enthusiasts: Rising temperatures and changing climate literally changes how wines taste. Isnāt this cool? (very bad pun intended) You can very literally <strong>taste climate change in wine.<br></strong><br>In fact wines are so finicky that they they all have a vintage year (the year the grapes were harvested) on the bottle. This is because the weather patterns from one year to the next might change the flavors and structural components significantly. (But admittedly this is a very poor user interface for a quite complex product - planning to write more on that in a later post).<br><br>For those who are less taste oriented and more data oriented. I hinted that alcohol levels are higher in warm conditions. Why is that?<br><br>More heat and sunlight increases the sugar levels in the grapes. More sugar in the grape juice means more sugar for the yeast to eat. More sugar means more yeast poop, which means more alcohol. So back to the data. Below is a graph that shows how alcohol levels in wine have increased over the past 30 years in various regions. <br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--png">
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</figure><br><br><em>Source: </em><a href="https://www.liv-ex.com/2021/06/liv-ex-abv-data-shows-rising-alcohol-levels-30-years/">https://www.liv-ex.com/2021/06/liv-ex-abv-data-shows-rising-alcohol-levels-30-years/</a><br><br>So warmer temperatures these past 30 years have caused sugar to increase and thus alcohol.<br><br>The climate denier reading this might notice: āHah! You see climate change is stagnating since alcohol levels is not increasing any more!āĀ <br><br>But no.. Excessive alcohol will cause wines to be unbalanced. This happens faster for light bodied grapes like Pinot Noir (Burgundy red) and Nebbiolo (Piedmont red). As you can see Californian reds (typically Zinfandel and Cabernet Sauvignon) can go higher and still feel balanced. So the winemaker have to adapt to this situation in order to make a product that they can sell. So in the vineyard this translates to picking grapes earlier or making sure grapes are more shaded such that the grapes doesnāt increase sugar levels beyond a certain point. But all of these factors change the product of course, not just alcohol levels.<br><br>So contrary to many industries out there: This is an industry that is actually actively adapting to climate change. And have been at least since the early 2000s. And the reason is very obvious: You canāt continue to make Champagne in Champagne with rising temperatures. Thatās why thereās now a fledgling if still young sparkling wine industry in cold and rainy places like the UK which actually have a climate similar to Champagne in the old days. As the temperature rises wineries will have to move further north or south (depending on hemisphere) to make the same wines as they used to. But if you move to a different area the soils and other factors change, which will inevitably change the final product anyway. So the wines we see on the market today will likely become extinct in the decades to come.Ā <br><br>So for all you climate deniers out there with vast wine cellars of fossil fuel fortunes, Iād be very happy to take your fake fermented grape juice off your hands cheap since you clearly canāt ābelieveā in it since you donāt ābelieveā in climate change.<br><br>And for the rest of you: Enjoy the wine you drink. It wonāt taste the same next year ā due to climate change.<br><br>Cheers š„</div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/24331
2022-11-24T00:35:11Z
2022-11-24T19:55:08Z
š 30 days of Wim Hof
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<div>I donāt believe in miracles. And I donāt know anything about all the claims and science behind Wim Hofs method. All I can say is that it is working for what Iām looking for.<br><br>In a busy family life with a new baby arrived in May and a busy entrepreneurial work life I have felt close to burned out many times in the past year. Really low energy, low motivation despite exciting projects to work on, low inspiration, just tired all the time, angry and annoyed far too often. And Iāve been tryingĀ many things from stoicism to meditation and all of these things still help a bit (and I meditate for a whole other reason than the above issues). But after 1 month on Wim Hof I feel really different.<br><br>I feel a mental energy that I havenāt felt in years, I feel inspired again which, for somebody that just throw myself at everything I find interesting can be a bit of a hazard and I feel so motivated that I now struggle going to bed (hence this blogpost at 1:30am š
). <br><br>I remember wondering in my early 30s whether that energy that I felt in my 20s would ever come back. But now it has!<br><br>The mental energy is a total game changer. I find myself not getting as angry or in general bad mood anymore simply because stuff donāt hit me as hard as it used to. <br><br>But all this is very feely things and hard to quantify. So how about the fact that over the past 30 days Iāve done more than 750 push-ups lately averaging 35 and above and all done <strong>without breathing š¶. </strong>Before I could do maybe 7-8 and havenāt done any in since my last gym class in high school. I recently extended my maximum run time without breaks from 20 mins to 1h15mins. Also just today I beat my breath holding record by being able to hold my breath for 2m15s. Finally, my sleeping heart rate have gone down from 70 to 60-ish and my daily heart rate have seen a similar drop.<br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--png">
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</figure><br><br>I really donāt want to peddle some weird shit but this really works!Ā <br><br>So what have I done. The routine is so simple that it must be almost impossible that itās some kind of placebo effect because I really donāt believe this stuff should work.Ā <br><br></div><ul><li>š„¶<strong>Cold shower</strong>: Do a hot shower as usual and then finish with a cold one. Gradually extending each day the length you stay in from 5 seconds to more than 2mins.</li><li>š¬ļø<strong>Breathing</strong>: You do these breathing rounds where you basically do a mild form of hyperventilating before holding your breath with empty lungs and measure the time. This you also gradually build up from 1 round to 4 rounds over a week.</li><li>šŖ<strong>Push-ups</strong>: Do 1 round of breathing and then do as many push-ups as possible without breathing.Ā </li></ul><div><br>Whatās really interesting about the cold showers is that initially you have to really control your shivering by controlling your breathing. Taking long slow breaths to stop the shivering. But when you pass 1 min all that goes away. The water suddenly hardly feels cold. This could be compared to going into a cold swimming pool. After a while youāll get used to it but no because the next time you do the cold shower you donāt shiver. You donāt have to control anything with your breathing. You just feel the cold and decide not to shiver š¤Æ. Thatās what it feels like.Ā <br><br>Anyway thatās it. Google Wim Hof method or Iceman as heās also known and youāll find an instructional videos. Iām totally blown away by the effect this has had on me in just one month.Ā <br><br>Will definitely do a follow up post in the future.</div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/23227
2022-09-23T15:01:39Z
2022-09-23T15:09:09Z
šāāļøCurrent state of running
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<div>Well.. Itās been a month now and I havenāt run very much. Iāve been on vacation and couldnāt really find the time to get out. Normally I used to run 30 mins during the work day which worked quite well with my schedule, because I would then just work more in the evening. <br><br>But while on vacation I did manage to achieve one goal which I had set for myself last year while vacating in the same location and that was to climb a small āmountainā. And I did that! Not without a fight, but I did it!<br><br>Pictures as proof:<br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--jpg">
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</figure><br><br>Iām currently ttrying my best to find the time to get back out. I really love running but lately work has just kept me very busyā¦</div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/21959
2022-07-14T19:47:47Z
2022-09-23T14:59:24Z
šøšāāļø Air Guitar Run Club playlists
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<div>One year ago I started making some DJ-style mixes because I thought running playlists really suck. I stopped doing them because it took too long and nobody really cared. But they still suck so I got to change that.<br><br>If you donāt like dance or techno or pop you have no where to go. At least I havenāt found any. So here are my take for a more rockānāroll take on running / exercise playlists. If these playlists donāt have you playing air drums or guitar while running then I donāt know what will. Would love to turn them into mixes but I just donāt have the time right now.<br><br>If you like them let me know otherwise theyāre simply here so I can find them myself.<br><br>The playlists are divided into length and intensity. Note though that intensity is probably subjective. But you can expect higher intensity playlists to have higher BPMs than low intensity playlists. Weāre staying inside the rockānāroll / blues sphere though here so no speedmetal etc.<br><br><em>Edited 23.09.22<br></em>Ok I decided to just bundle a lot of great songs into a few bigger themed playlists. For now thereās only one and itās IMO quite good, but the list will expand as Iām inspired to create more.<br><br><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0WX4oFppA0qH7cpjriRbOf?si=BhOgvhX_RqOMMfAtPcBN-Q https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0WX4oFppA0qH7cpjriRbOf?si=BhOgvhX_RqOMMfAtPcBN-Q">Air Guitar Run Club #1 - Contemporary</a></div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/21894
2022-07-11T21:00:07Z
2022-07-11T21:13:03Z
š· White Bordeaux from South Africa?!
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</figure><br>Yes so was my astonishment when my parents served me this South African Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon blend. My mom prefaced it by saying that she didnāt really like it that much and usually we align quite a bit on white wine. So I was a bit skeptical going into it. But man was I in for a surprise!<br><br>š Medium lemon<br><br>šš
On first whiff I was immediately transferred to a very different place: Bordeaux. It had that classic cat pee, grassy, apple and lemon which Iāve come to love so much from white Bordeaux. But also a bit of pepper to it. I was probably primed a bit by knowing the blend beforehand though. Now that I think of it I had I not known the blend before it could also have been a good but cold vintage New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. <br><br>š But then again it had a very satisfying med-full body (which is more common when blended with Semillon I think) with a high acidity and a quite long length. <br><br>š„ Had I tasted this blind I would have for sure yelled out either New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc (although the lack of tropical fruits and the thicker body should have pointed me away from that) or white Bordeaux. Really impressed with this. Although the only bad thing I would say is that the complexity is just not quite up there with white Bordeaux. But still this is great and it starts at least 3 to ā¾ cheaper š<br><br>Looking at the back of the label and a few things shows that this could in fact be a good bottle. First off, it mentions the specific region the wine comes from: Western Cape. Still Western Cape I believe is mostly known for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. But still any closer identification of where the grapes are from are usually a good sign . And furthermore the winemakers location is another region Elgin also known for making great Sauvignon Blancs. So that all adds up. <br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--jpg">
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/21881
2022-07-11T11:08:11Z
2022-07-11T11:27:20Z
šāāļø80/20 running: The beginning
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</figure><br>Currently about 80% done with Matt Fitzgeralds book ā<a href="https://mattfitzgerald.org">Run like a pro (even if youāre slow)</a>ā and itās really convincing. It advocates a lot of (to some extent) counter intuitive practices that the pros are using and that recreational runners should use too but very often fail to do. <br><br>One of the most interesting and counterintuitive of these is Mattās ā80/20 runningā (he wrote a <a href="https://mattfitzgerald.org/books/">whole book about that</a> which is definitely next on my list). Which basically says that 80% of the time running should be spent at low intensity and the remainder 20% should be spent on moderate or high intensity depending on which kind of goal I have. <br><br>In all runs Iāve done up until this point Iāve just been more or less trying to full throttle (air quotes) my way through. Air quotes because thatās still not very fast, but itās for sure high intensity for me. When asked by my current running app of choice Nike Running Club (itās just so damn beautiful) about the intensity I would always reply somewhere between 7 and 9. So suddenly having to use the brakes a lot during a run feels weird š But the data is there so I decided to give it a try after recently started to run again after 1.5months break.<br><br>But what does low intensity mean? According to Matt, low intensity is runs that are run at 80% of max heart rate or 65% of VO2Max (the exertion at which your body is absorbing the highest amount of oxygen it can possibly do at your current fitness level). At 65% of VO2max is your VT1 (Ventilatory Threshold #1) and if you cross that one you will see a spike in breathing rate and heart rate (if I remember correctly). <br><br>He then gives a number of ways to calculate that. I tried one of them the so called 6 minute test which calculates the pace I should keep to stay below VT1. To do the test I had to run at a pace that I could sustain for 6 minutes straight. Looking at some of my former runs I could see that the fastest 1K I did was 5:30min/km, so I was reasoning that the fastest I could go for 6 minutes is probably around 5:00 min/km. So that was my target. I set the watch for 6 minutes and boom off I went šāāļøšØ. Checking the watch all the while it said 5:20 or something. Damn I need to go faster! A minute or so later I checked it again and now it said 4:00min/km - arg too fast. And sure enough at about 1min left I completely tanked. Acid everywhere and I were almost coming to a complete standstill. Ending up with an average pace over the 6 minutes of 5:18min/km (and beating my fastest 1K though) and I was going well below 6:00min/km at the very end and I probably looked like I was about to die.<br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--png">
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</figure><br><br>So yeah not the perfect stable 6 minute run I had envisioned. But now I know that my Apple Watch with the Nike Running Club app is apparently lagging by quite a bit. Iām going to redo the test in a few days but for now Iām sticking with the 5:18min/km.<br><br>So my pace at VO2Max (pVO2Max) is 5:18min/km. Converting that to velocity at vVO2Max = 11.3 km/h. Taking 65% of that will give me my velocity at VT1 (vVT1) which is then 7.36 km/h and converting to pace and I get pVT1: 8:09min/km. So this the pVT1 Iām going with for now.<br><br>So how is it working?Ā <br><br>To early to tell. Iāve done 2 interval runs at that pace [1min walk / 3min low intensity run] and [1min walk / 4min low intensity run] and both of these ended up in a pace just around 8min on average - but this includes walks. Here are some things I noticed:</div><ul><li>šāāļø<strong>Pace:</strong> Feels glacial (pre-climate-change). I canāt for the life of me get my running pace down to 8:09min/km. The slowest I seem to be able to move my legs and still run is 7:30ish min/km. The pace feels really slow.</li><li>š<strong>Sweat:</strong> In this last one I just finished a few minutes ago, I was running in the sun probably around 25C in direct sun and I only started sweating after 20 mins. Really unusual for a guy that havenāt really worn a shirt all weekend because of the heat.</li><li>ā¤ļø<strong>Heart rate:</strong> If Iām looking at my heart rate data, for instance on this last one I just completed it seems to stay around 150 about midway through when Iām running and if you just do the very simple max HR calculation for someone my age my 80% heart rate should be right around there. Ā </li><li>š¬<strong>Breathing:</strong> It hardly feels like Iām breathing. Maybe a bit deeper breaths than when Iām just sitting and writing this post.Ā </li><li>šŖ<strong>Endurance: </strong>Finally, I feel like I could keep that pace up for hours.Ā </li></ul><div><br>So yeah, based on these observations it might look like Iām hitting that VT1 spot pretty good based on that.<br><br>For reference here are the two 80/20 runs including the 6minute test on Strava:<br><a href="https://strava.app.link/HnLSOGLFzrb">6 minute vVO2max test</a><br><a href="https://strava.app.link/udVwtnIFzrb">Run #1</a><br><a href="https://strava.app.link/1Fq9A2DFzrb">Run #2</a><br>It should be noted that inbetween run #1 and #2 I did a moderate effort 5K not shown here where I tried to keep a bit above my VT1 and I was surprised to see that I could actually run for 27 minutes with no problems at that pace.<br><br>ā<br><br><em>This is part 1 of my adventures with 80/20 running. Stay tuned for more posts on that in the future.</em><br><br></div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/21862
2022-07-10T18:56:06Z
2022-07-10T22:28:42Z
š· Ventoux in Southern RhĆ“ne rocks š¤
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</figure><br>I have a bit of a love hate relationship with Southern RhĆ“ne whites. 50% of the time I find them dead boring and 50% theyāre amazing. I tried this oneās sibling and it was definitely in the former category but this one definitely in the latter Ā š¤©.<br><br>Ventoux is area wise one of the larger appellations in Southern RhĆ“ne starting just east of Avignon and continuing up into the Alps. <br><br>Chateau Pesquie Ventoux Quintessence Blanc 2020<br><br>80% Rousanne<br>20% Clairette<br><br>š Medium gold<br><br>š
š So deliciously complex. On the primary side I get Spice (curry! Thatās a first), apple, pear, melon, flower. Fruit characteristics is definitely on the bruised side. Also getting some secondary note very faint well integrated notes of vanilla as well as butter from malolactic conversion. <br><br>š Lovely full body with medium acidity which makes it feel just a tiny bit flat. Finish also on the longer side of medium. <br><br>š„ This is really nice and ticks all the boxes in my book. Definitely left me wanting more Southern RhĆ“ne. Outstanding!<br><br>š°17.5ā¬<br><br>āā<br><br><em>š· Hi! I do tons of wine related posts here right from inspiring bottles to comparative tastings. So if you want more wine related content be sure to subscribe (and look for posts with the š· prefix).<br>If you just found this blog and wonder what the heck it is in general, feel free to checkout the </em><a href="https://world.hey.com/reibel/welcome-2aeaf5f9"><em>Welcome post</em></a><em> which explains all of this. </em><br><br></div><div><br></div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/21859
2022-07-10T14:20:09Z
2022-11-24T19:54:59Z
š¤š·WELCOME! šāāļøššø
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<div>Hi!<br><br>If you just found this welcome! <br><br>My name is Michael, IāmĀ a dad (two boys, 3y and 0y), entrepreneur, engineer, PhD, distiller, runner, vinyl collector, wine nerd, climate writer etc. Iāve worked with a bunch of cool people from NASA to my wonderful founder team in Corti.ai and Gefjun to most recently a lot of different climate projects. See more structured work history on <a href="http://reibel.io">reibel.io</a>.<br><br>This is my blog where I write about a lot of different things. The things are quite different hence each post will be prefixed by an emoticon that describes what it is so you can more easily figure out what you want to read. Hereās a full list:<br><br>š¤ Deep tech<br>š· Wine<br>šāāļø Running<br>š Climate<br>šø Music<br>š Something else<br><br>For now probably 80% of the posts youāll see here will be reposting of stuff I do on my various themed social media profiles (mostly š· and šāāļø). The remainder 20% will be for this blog only. The latter will probably be focussed around š¤ššø.<br><br>I wonāt promise any form of regularity other than the fact that I have been quite structured in posting on my running and wine Instagram profiles almost daily the past weeks and my Weekly Climate newsletter have run for almost 2 years now. So yeah I guess you can expect some kind of semi-daily regularity here and at times more than that. Ā <br><br>Probably more topics than the ones above will come at which time this post will be continuously updated. All posts from now on will also contain a link back to this post to explain what the heck you just found on the Internet.</div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/21839
2022-07-09T18:13:23Z
2022-07-10T21:07:40Z
š· El Enemigo [š]
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<div>Following a great run earlier today and the almost autumn like temperatures outside I thought it best to open a good bottle of red wine. <br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--jpg">
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</figure><br><br>I recently started exploring Argentinian wine and this Cab Franc is my first Argentinian Cab Franc and being a big fan of Loire Cab Franc it was a quite interesting comparison.<br><br>š Deep red with some purple tint<br><br>š
š On the primary side I get: Herbaceous (bell pepper, but not as powerful as a Loire cab Franc), Raspberry, spice (pepper, licorice), cherry, herbal (eucalyptus). And as for secondary the oak feels very well integrated. Itās clearly there with vanilla and smoke notes but itās pleasant.Ā <br><br>š Structure wise itās pleasant. High acidity and medium-ish tannins with a quite long finish and a nice body.Ā <br><br>š„This definitely has balance, precision and length. Complexity is also there to some degree so definitely going to call this high end of very good quality => š<br><br>šāāļø I wouldnāt recommend this post running even though antioxidants is good for recovery. Itās like a good whisky that should be savored on the couch in the evening after a good run.Ā <br><br>The comparison with Loire is interesting. Loire definitely has a lot more bell pepper and El Enemigo felt a bit more approachable perhaps than most Loire Cab Francs.Ā </div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/21835
2022-07-09T13:33:51Z
2022-07-09T13:53:25Z
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</figure><br>After recently restarting my runs I thought it be a good idea to do a 5K reference run something I can happily beat some weeks later. So I did this 5K where I was trying to keep the pace close-ish to my VT1 (more on that in a later post). But I added a small pace game where the last km have to be the fastest. The idea is to train being more conscious of my pace and thereby energy consumption. <br><br>And I missed that by 1 sec š. <br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--png">
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</figure><br>6:43 vs 6:44 š<br><br>But you know what? Iām fucking proud of this 5K anyway. Because not only have I successfully rebooted my running but tonight I slept 2h spaced out over the entire night because baby brother Sander wasnāt sleeping very well or at all. Also I ran for a full 27 minutes before walking a few seconds before the last K started. And it was uphill!<br><br>So yeah deal with it š.Ā </div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/21827
2022-07-08T20:53:55Z
2022-07-08T20:55:27Z
šāāļø Why I run
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<div>I donāt know who needs to hear this. Quite possibly most likely myself in 6-9 months time when Iām questioning running again. Or deciding to down prioritize it. Maybe youāre reading this because youāre procrastinating about going on that run and need to read some random dudes thoughts on why run. So here goes.<br><br>š <strong>I run because it makes me happy</strong><br>For a long time I never understood this point. I never got any happiness out of running. All I got was tiredness. In my life today I get happiness from running. Even bad runs.<br><br>š“ <strong>I run because I sleep better</strong><br>I sleep A LOT better when I run. Normally I wake up 4-5 times every night at least but when I run I usually find myself waking up maybe only once (and that once is because of getting kicked in the nuts by my 3 year old whoās a sleep ninja). This is also apparent from my Autosleep data which says Iāve gone from an average sleep rating of around 70 to 82.<br><br><strong>š I run because I wake up feeling refreshed</strong><br>Probably related to the former and this is perhaps one of the absolute biggest pros of why I run. Before I started running I would feel so insanely sluggish when waking up. Literally taking hours before I was able to think straight. When I run I actually feel refreshed when waking up. My mind feels sharp and clear right from the get go. EVEN with little sleep. <br><br><strong>š§ I run to get mentally stronger</strong><br>Running is a mental game. I learned as much this past year. Especially when combined with meditation it seems all too clear that youāre constantly at war with lazy-Michael who tells you to stop the fuck up. Also just confirmed by reading Matt Fitzgeralds āRun like the pros (even if youāre slow)ā book who literally says that running with a quiet mind makes you perform better. Also it used to be that when I wanted to run and it was raining I was like ānah not todayā. Now Iām literally looking forward to running in the rain because I know it will challenge me mentally. Take that rain! šš§<br><br><strong>š· I run to enjoy wine</strong><br>Yes Iām a wine nerd. No exercise is probably not good for me especially not with the amounts of wine I sample these days every week. <br><br>š«„<strong> I run to be alone</strong><br>Yes I have a family. And yes I love them to bits. But enjoy being alone nonetheless (and also I run mostly during work days these days).<br><br>š² <strong>I run to be in nature</strong><br>I love running in the forest. Looking at the trees whisk by. Finding a new path. Losing another path. Getting totally lost. <br><br><strong>š„ I run to feel accomplished</strong><br>Some people kill evil bosses in computer games to feel accomplished (I used to do that A LOT) but I like running better.Ā <br><br>So those were just a few things initially coming to my mind within about 10 mins writing this. Anything added below will have come after those 10 mins.</div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
reibel@hey.com
tag:world.hey.com,2005:World::Post/4293
2021-03-07T22:22:20Z
2021-03-07T22:22:20Z
š Book Review: Bill Gates ā How to avoid a climate disaster
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<div>I recently finished Bill Gatesā new book ā How to avoid a climate disaster. The one-liner review is that itās tech-centric (with weird blindspots), a kind of one-sided look at decarbonizing electricity and an extremely useful mental model for thinking about the climate crisis. Hereās the deeper review.<br><br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--jpg">
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</figure><br><br><strong>Tech-centric (with weird blindspots)</strong><br>In the introduction Bill clearly states that heās a technologist and not a political scientist and thatās totally fair, hence he focusses mainly on technology and innovation as the key drivers of solving the climate crisis. IMO, the beautiful thing about that plan is that if we as technologists (for Iām obviously counting myself as one too) can just use innovation to drive down the costs of the technologies we need to solve the climate crisis, then we donāt need policy (although see later). I love that idea. Because TBH one reason I started Massive.earth was because Iām shit-scared of policy. He also really takes that position all the way to the end making it clear that to get to zero we need a plan for everything not just the āeasyā electricity stuff, but also the harder challenges like alternatives to cement and so on.<br><br>But as much as I love this idea, that innovation can be used to solve everything, I just canāt map that to reality. While innovation is for sure needed to drive prices of technologies needed to solve the climate crisis down, innovation will only be a half of the picture. The other half is adoption. Adoption can be addressed by innovation (by e.g inventing new financial products or solving the scaling issues that is causing a slow adoption etc), but the most standard way of dealing with adoption is through policy and economic incentives. I feel he could spent a lot more time on the adoption piece. Because not talking about adoption forces the reader to ignore the time variable of the climate crisis, which we just canāt do.<br><br>Finally, Iām surprised that a skilled technologist such as Bill appear to ignore an engineering 101 fact, which is that as new breakthroughs are invented they will almost always be more expensive early on. The first Gen 4 nuclear power plant will be a lot more expensive than the 1000th. We have seen this in just about all aspects of technology and he even cites examples like how expensive microwave ovens used to be. So I donāt understand why he doesnāt appear to apply this to the technologies he advocates for himself. This means that while breakthroughs for sure is important and in some cases like cement is probably the only way to go, they wonāt be solved by their invention. They will be solved by multiple years of additional research. Look at what happened with solar and other technologies. It has taken many years for it to get down in cost.<br>And here we also see the point that<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/books/review/bill-gates-how-to-avoid-a-climate-disaster.html"> Bill McKibben mentions in his review</a> of Billās book that Bill simply appear to use outdated numbers for solar and wind power (<a href="https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2020">new numbers here</a>), plus he ignores a lot of very high <a href="https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/princeton-study-charts-a-2.5t-pathway-to-a-net-zero-carbon-u.s">profile</a> <a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/08/23/100-renewable-energy-job-growth-139-nations-detailed-new-stanford-report/">studies</a> about how renewable energy can indeed power the world. Now I must admit that I side with Bill here to the point where <em>if</em> nuclear <em>was</em> an option it sure sounds a lot easier to solve our clean electricity problem with nuclear than with renewable energy. But as Bill also highlights nuclear is expensive and time consuming today due to various political and technical reasons. Weāre not going to solve those issues with a new type of reactor.<br><br><strong>One-sided look at decarbonizing electricity</strong><br>Iām going to echo other reviews in saying that yes, Bill is very bullish on nuclear and especially 4th Gen nuclear being the solution here. At first I felt the energy chapter in itself was actually very balanced (compared to the critique he got for it). But throughout the book you get these small āhey nuclear is a really good option for this problem tooā-sentences here and there. It becomes a little annoying. But unfortunately, also right. I think that the main problem is that he doesnāt seem to discuss the political aspect of nuclear which is a very thorny issues (for valid and invalid reasons). Again, I know he said heās not a political scientist, but still this is a quite critical omission for his strong advocacy on nuclear I think. Also the fact that he doesnāt even as much as mention Gen 3 (the current) generation of nuclear as a solution, which is probably a lot closer to being able to solve the problem than Gen 4. <br><br><strong>Green premiums<br></strong>The part about the book that I really really love is his Green Premium concept. I love it so much that I think he should just have named the book āGreen Premiumsā and gone deep in that. OMG! Itās such a nice way to look at what we need to do. Bill uses it almost exclusively to focus on where innovation efforts should be focussed, but you can just as well use it to decide where to focus political efforts. In short, a Green Premium is the extra we must pay in a specific country to replace a dirty product with a green one. I.e. if replacing your gas furnace with an electric heat pump will be 10$ / month more expensive, the green premium for doing that is 10$ / month (the numbers are fictive). This tells us that we need to reduce the cost of electric heat pumps. This gives us a target for what to focus on. Either we must figure out how to make electric heat pumps more efficient through innovation such that it costs less to operate. Or we must look at ways to make the electricity it uses cheaper (e.g through a combined investment in solar power perhaps). Or we must look at policies or other incentives that will lower the cost. Or finally, we can see if we can invent a financial product that will make it cheaper in the long run. <br>An even more important use of the Green Premium is if itās zero or negative for one solution. Because if thatās the case and itās not widely adopted, then there must be āsomething wrongā with the deployment of the technology. Either itās being hindered by policy or something else. This is the one point where Bill touches on adoption. His argument, I think, is very valid. That if a replacement of something actually saves people and/or businesses money and is green but people still donāt use it, then thereās āsomethingā wrong. However, I believe that weāre seeing this at a global scale with a lot of different climate solutions right now. Prime example is renewable energy which is cheaper than any forms of energy, yet it is not being adopted at an acceptable pace. I really believe that the key to solving the climate crisis is breaking those barriers. And as mentioned earlier Bill doesnāt give this adoption part a lot of space in this book. But the Green Premium is also a great tool to identify solutions or technologies for which āsomethingā is wrong with the adoption. <br><br>If you havenāt read the book I can highly recommend going to Breakthrough Energyās website and <a href="https://www.breakthroughenergy.org/our-challenge/the-green-premium">read about Green Premiums</a>.<br><br><strong>Conclusion<br></strong>I enjoyed Billās book. And I really donāt understand all the flak heās getting for being a white billionaire trying to help. In his book I especially enjoyed the Green Premium part. Technology-wise though Iām not sure it contributes a lot to the discussion than existing research projects such as Project Drawdown. Some of his solutions are even opposed to Drawdown, such as his focus on fossil-free fertilizer (also important, no doubt) but which Drawdown says can be solved using regenerative agricultural practices. His part about that innovation must play a major role in reducing the costs of key solutions I couldnāt agree more with, but sadly he leaves out the adoption piece of said innovations, which is sad. It would have made the book so much better.</div>
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Michael Reibel Boesen
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