My Second Life
Second Life
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy,
and wise.
Life beyond your 40s doesn't have to mean conforming to body aches and pains, uncertainty about your career and personal life, and feeling left behind.
- Entries
- 03
- Reading
- 18 min
- Updated
- Aug 2026
01Healthy
Your body answers to what you feed it and how you move it, on a timescale of months rather than days. Most of what follows is me testing that on myself and writing down what happened.
- Sardines The evidence for the fish is strong and the evidence for the fast is almost nonexistent, which are two very different claims that almost nobody bothers to separate.
- Creatine The most-studied supplement in sports nutrition turns out to be a brain supplement.
- Carbs How I went from zero carbs to some carbs, and why the choice of carb matters more than the amount.
- Entries
- 03
- Reading
- 21 min
- Updated
- Jul 2026
02Wealthy
I started late and I started small, which has turned out to matter far less than the fact that I never stopped.
- Angel investing Somebody has to go first, you get to choose who, and thirty years of asking what breaks first has to be worth something.
- Fractional art Thirteen positions, seventeen thousand dollars, down 1.3 per cent in three and a half years, and the honest reason I have not sold.
- Precious metals Money printing, crowded central bank vaults, and a very hard-working metal called silver. Plus the one rule that keeps me honest.
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- 02
- Reading
- 9 min
- Updated
- Sep 2026
03Wise
The question underneath this section is what am I still wrong about, and it has never once had a tidy answer.
Knowing more got easy. Thinking better did not, and only one of the two compounds.
A letter, most Sundays
What I tried during the week, what it cost me, and whether it turned out to be worth doing. Usually a page. Occasionally two.