Breathing Trick to Fall Asleep Faster

@FoxyQuant originally told me about it, I think it helps. If you can’t sleep anyway, might as well give it a try!

http://www.byrdie.com/how-to-fall-asleep-fast

Memory Atheletes

Great with faces, forget my own name sometimes

Supposedly there is no such thing as photographic memory and everyone can do it!

Food tastes better overseas

Who doesn’t like a ton of sriracha on everything?

US food is extremely bland compared to the rest of the world in my opinion. Have you ever thought of having a salad with no dressing? Or grilled chicken with no marinade? It’s disgusting. US food is merely a vessel for sugar filled condiments. Here might be a reason why:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/29/english-eggs-vs-american-eggs_n_5403941.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular&utm_content=buffer336a5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The Most Important Post EVER

#Study

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/food-for-men/how-not-to-get-drunk?click=feed

Koch told me that for years he has swallowed your standard Fleischmann’s dry yeast before he drinks, stirring the white powdery substance in with some yogurt to make it more palatable.

“One teaspoon per beer, right before you start drinking.”

You see, what Owades knew was that active dry yeast has an enzyme in it called alcohol dehydrogenases (ADH). Roughly put, ADH is able to break alcohol molecules down into their constituent parts of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Which is the same thing that happens when your body metabolizes alcohol in its liver. Owades realized if you also have that enzyme in your stomach when the alcohol first hits it, the ADH will begin breaking it down before it gets into your bloodstream and, thus, your brain.

ht/ @billygriffin22

Sweet Snooze Button

 

Indeed!

So guilty of this. Article on how the snooze button and ambient light effect our quality of sleep.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/science-of-sleep-trouble-with-snooze-buttons.html

Great Stretching Exercises for Keyboard Jocks

Me with new photo app

I mostly have terrible posture at work. I try, but then forget. One of the partners now has a standing only desk, which is quite odd for a trading floor but an interesting development seeing as sitting is the new smoking. Here are a few quick and simple stretches that help a bit:

Neck & Shoulder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v10pWRbYDMc

Back & Posture:

http://lifehacker.com/fix-your-computer-hunch-and-other-posture-problems-in-3-1476347921

Meditation Trick for Insomnia

Sweet sweet REM sleep

Try it out, let me know if it works for you! I can use all the help I can get!

http://lifehacker.com/190143/beat-insomnia-with-blue-energy

75 Year Study on Male Happiness

Not sure why I picked this but….

 

75 Year study from Harvard so you know it’s true.

BTW, I’ve been slacking citing sources for these articles so I will be far better at giving credit to the people/websites that post these articles originally. This one is courtesy of @EquityNYC on Twitter.

Eat what you earn

Interesting and self explanatory chart:

Where does Taco Bell lie in this?

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-12/you-are-what-you-eat-and-you-eat-what-you-earn

And just an aside, if you’ve ever been to a ‘poor’ neighborhood, there is almost NOTHING healthy available to eat even if you wanted to.

Funny

Costs! I’m no Noble Prize winning economist but doesn’t lowering costs makes the insurance more affordable? This seems to have been lost somewhere in the health care debate. Btw if your looking for a job, medical device sales at 95k base + commission sounds better then most Wall Street jobs! Certainly sales trading!!

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/272-39/16241-time-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us