Justin Yarmark

Basic overview of nontraditional approaches to wellness

Combining conventional medicine and the CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) approach is a much more sensible approach to health and wellness. Our body’s ability to heal itself is a guiding principle of integrative medicine. That doesn’t mean you can’t help it along a bit.

Posted 10 months ago

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unconsumption:

Street artist My Dog Sighs creates gorgeously painted faces on found crushed cans, which he then leaves on the streets in random places for passers-by to take home. It is both a street art installation project and an altruistic gesture dedicated to the cause of free art for everyone.

(via Junkculture)

My Dog Sighs is creator of Free Art Friday. Read the FaF back story here.

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create massive ‘up and to the right’ growth in the rainbow chard market

kamacoach:

Then, When You Have Found the Shrubbery …

Universal Truth - you are a hottie. But … from time to time, between the long hours, the client dinners, family meals, weekends in Napa and a seeming abundance of start-up Cupcake parlors … *le poids brut* gets a little outside your target range …. and by a little outside, we might mean 1*σ*. You cut back on carbs, try to make it to the gym, forgo Frappucinos and yet you can’t quite seem to de-pudge as easily as you used to. Wha’ happen?

Ugh - and now you are jean-shopping and feeling not quite your stylish-self … has the time come to admit defeat and go up a size?

Maybe, but before you do, check out Tera Warner: This is a ‘get your system back on track’ program that isn’t really based on calorie restriction. In fact, you’ll be shocked at the amount of food (especially bananas) you are being asked to eat.

The fundamentals seem to be:

1. limit dietary fats, added salt and sugar

2. inject as much chlorophyll as possible into your liver

3. create massive ‘up and to the right’ growth in the rainbow chard market

Here in the beautiful bubble of Silicon Valley, we are a data-driven bunch. And to be honest, the research support for why these green-intense raw food / juice / smoothie programs work is thin (most of the research talks about ‘new-age claims’, ‘the 70s’ and ‘lack of conclusive evidence’). Books like *The China Study* help support the case for a mostly vegan diet but we are not there yet on the raw and the green.

And yet, Tera has 100,000+ followers. So before you throw in the towel on your skinny jeans, amp up your shrubbery intake and see what happens :-)

Sample Smoothie:

- Bananas - 2

- Blueberries - 1 C

- Papaya - 1

- Rainbow Chard - 5 leaves

- Coconut Water - to taste

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Rocking The Hamster Wheel

kamacoach:

You are rocking the hamster wheel. You can spin out an app over morning coffee, forecast US Debt to GDP ratio in 2020 and put on a few currency trades before noon. Have some solid couch time with your team, handhold clients all afternoon and get in a 5-7 mile run before it gets dark.

And yet, as awesome as you are - sometimes you have a quiet moment - like say when you are sitting on the tarmac in LA at 11pm for 3 hours because AirForce One took over the runway at SFO - when you think to yourself - what is this all about?

And then you go on a super-random date with an aspiring documentary filmmaker (which is OKCupid code for ‘I like to wear interesting hats and am still figuring out how to use FinalCut’) who subtly tells you that you seem like someone who sold out to ‘the corporations’ by saying ‘you know who you remind me of?’ … ‘Demi Moore?’ … ‘No, that’s not it’ … ‘Jennifer Connelly’… ‘No, no - I was going to say you remind me of someone who sold out to the corporations’

Wow. A) did that just happen and B) You are picturing this guy making films and thinking maybe there is a course on the use of metaphor and juxtaposition for ironic impact that would benefit him. But there is something in his matter-of-fact observation that strikes like a lightening bolt just above the heel of your Bruno Magli’s.

Then, as you are picking up your bag to go, he tells you something that changes your life. There is this guy, Daniel Pink. He has a book and some TED talks and other stuff on YouTube. Check him out.

It might just change how you see that hamster wheel.

Daniel Pink’s book, TED talks and other good videos.

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Raise Money for Assets Not Expenses

Great post from Seth Godin from June 22nd about when/why to raise money.

For entrepreneurs, then, the math is simple: any asset-building opportunity that will generate a long-term profit is worth considering and even worth borrowing money to acquire.

But if your business needs to borrow money to simply pay your expenses, to keep you at a steady state, you’re doomed. Unless those expenses are demonstrably building a bigger asset for tomorrow, you’re going to regret the investment, because it’s not an investment, it’s just a waste.

The second thing to keep in mind is this: you probably have to pay the money back. Don’t borrow money to pay for an asset unless you can see a clear path to paying it back. That might mean selling the asset later (which is what VCs almost always do) or it might mean building a project where the asset is so profitable you can pay people back directly (which is why it’s worth borrowing money to go to Harvard Medical School).

Posted 10 months ago

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Wisdom a la Calvin and Hobbes

On life’s constant little limitations

Calvin: You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.

On expectations

Calvin: Everybody seeks happiness! Not me, though! That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

On why we are scared of the dark

Calvin: I think night time is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

On the unspoken truth behind the education system

Calvin: As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

On the cruel reality of commercial art

Hobbes: Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

On the tragedy of hipsters

Calvin: The world bores you when you’re cool.

On the tears of a clown

Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humour? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it’s funny. Don’t you think it’s odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?

Hobbes: I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.

Calvin: (after a long pause) I can’t tell if that’s funny or really scary.

On the falling of sparrows (or providence’s lack of a timetable)

Calvin: Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

On why winter is the cruellest of seasons

Calvin: Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

On the gaping hole in contemporary art’s soul

Calvin: People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.

On playing Frankenstein with words

Calvin: Verbing weirds language.

On realising God is more Woody Allen than Michael Bay

Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines.

Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.

On why ET is real

Calvin: Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

On looking yourself in the mirror

Hobbes: So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?

On the future

Calvin: Trick or treat!

Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be?

Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak. Am I scary, or what?

On the truth

Calvin: It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy…Let’s go exploring!

Ugh. Love. :3