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One third of Gen Z and Millenials consider themselves lonely or extremely lonely. For men, this figure rises to 41%.

This comes via Dan Frommer at the New Consumer. I think this is an underrated problem that our society doesn’t really prepare people for. We talk about having good eating or financial habits, but almost never about having good social habits.

Somewhat related: my thoughts from reading Bowling Alone.

I’ve never been into truffle infused flavor and I suddenly feel very justified in this.

There are no white and black winter truffles out of season. They cannot be frozen, cooked, sterilized, packaged, or stored. If you had a dish with an intense truffle flavor out of season - it was most definitely a scam as it is impossible to serve those truffles out of season.

This is from Matt Babich at Taste Atlas. The ingredient used to make most truffle flavoring is a peturoleum derivative. See also cinnamon.

Since 1890, there have been 27 documented humans killed by mountain lions in North America. Cows, by comparison, kill about 20 people each year.

From Craig Childs at The Last Word on Nothing via The Browser.

Coding - went sideways, invented a library and funcitons within that library that seemed plausible.. but weren’t real

Writing an update email to Stripe Apps developers, which I then proof read. It was fine! Saved me probably 10 minutes.

Taking a complicated sql query a data scientist had written last year and rewriting it so I could get the list of one particular set users that made up one of the sums; it was able to this for me while I was in a meeting. Saved me ~20 minutes (more likely, I never would’ve made the time to do this task).

Asking it for feedback on PRDs - didn’t really get much here

Having it make a company wide email more pithy (accepted some of the suggestions)

Making 1 email to individuals in a group into 7 unique emails with the same message

Learning German

A recipe for Thai Curry in a crockpot