michaelsnedeker.bsky.social
@michaelsnedeker.bsky.social
Your brainstorm rewards repeats.

Safety drops fear.
Striatum picks familiar.
Reward agreement, ship clones.
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Three words win trials.

Pause. Drop. Soften.

Trial lawyers mark these in their margins.
Next to lines where juries decide.
Monotone loses cases.
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Focus is partly a supply problem.
Improve VO₂ max, improve oxygen delivery and regulation, improve attention stability.
I chase edges; VO₂ max is a reliable lever.
November 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Turn setbacks into training reps.
Every hit becomes capacity when you stop arguing with reality and start logging reps.
October 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Your free traffic just got a price tag.
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We normalized brain damage.

200,000 scans. Same story every time.
Dr. Amen's lab keeps seeing it.

You're walking around half-functional, calling it Tuesday.
Sleep, food, movement. Blood flow follows.
Fix the inputs. Brain works.
October 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Your supplements are stealing capacity.

Trade five pills for three numbers you can trust.

ApoB for lipids. HbA1c for glucose. ALT for liver stress.

Biomarkers expose what pills mask.
October 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Stop overdosing melatonin

Receipt - peer-reviewed meta-analyses show small gains from PRECISE TIMING and LOW DOSES.

Here's the protocol that actually works:
October 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
40 hours of action games boost contrast detection (spotting differences). Apply the loop to decisions. Same method, different domain.
October 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
That office bark began on a playground.
Your colleague's interruptions aren't rude.
They're a script written at age 7.
October 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Your strategy offsite changed nothing.

McKinsey data: 45% of execs rate planning sessions poorly.
77% of big decisions happen outside the room.

The problem isn't your framework.
You're treating strategy like an event.
Not a daily practice.

Here's the fix:
October 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
It works in calm. Fails in chaos.

I stress-test every hook, proof point, and handoff before anything goes live.

Because you don't rise to pressure... you default to your system.
October 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
You've been trained like a Labrador retriever to say yes to everything.

Every time someone asks for something, your mouth opens before your brain kicks in.

I did this for YEARS. Lost money, time, respect.
October 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Stop auditioning for strangers.

Dr. Phil said something that broke me: This is one of the most deadly diseases you could ever have... the desire for love from strangers.

Hit me like a truck because I recognized it everywhere.
October 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The athletes who stay calm under spikes

Across endurance, combat sports, and tactical teams, there's a common thread:

Easy volume most days + brief BRUTAL intervals.
September 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
3 dials run your team: attention, cadence, capacity! If one slips, agents amplify the mess. I'll show you how to set each dial so load rises without chaos.
September 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Your brain runs a BODY BUDGET like a bank account.
Sleep loss puts you in the red.
Walking uphill costs less energy with friends than strangers.
Most people are broke and don't know it.
September 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
You fall to your training. You don't rise to the occasion, you default to your training... or lack of it.

80% of finance AI projects CRASH and burn. Not from tech complexity. From people who can't handle chaos.
September 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Turn tension into capacity with empathy reps

Pause, read the room, then respond.
Each rep builds regulation so the next hard meeting feels lighter.
The loop compounds into steadier deals and fewer pissed off customers.
September 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My mentor told me years ago: "Look, I'm gonna tell you something that'll save your sanity."

You get these messages all day:

"Can we hop on a call about the project?"

What project? What do you want? Why are we talking?
September 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Weird thing I noticed: I can tell you every headline from this week but couldn't feel my pulse if you asked me to.
Anyone else?
September 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
From overload to output in three steps.

Most people fight stress.
Wrong move.

Stress is trying to tell you something.
September 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The $2.4B Netflix-Amazon deal is about to break every marketing team that doesn't see this coming.
I moved from scattered tabs to a single-page console. Roles locked. Cadences fixed.
September 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
You know what's funny about cloud computing?

Companies spend MILLIONS moving their data to "the cloud" and then get charged extra just to move it somewhere else. It's like paying rent for an apartment, then getting billed for using the door.
September 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Before assault bike HIIT I had cardio fitness but no intensity tolerance.

Regular cardio built my engine but the assault bike built my capacity to function when that engine gets stressed.

I thought I was fit. I was wrong.
September 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM