These are things I don’t do.
Some people want advice—positive advice of things they should add to their life.
I like negative advice: things to refrain from that by refraining you can make things better for yourself.
Negative advise is better because:
- It’s always free.
- It consists of doing less, rather than more.
So here’s a list of things I don’t do.
Note on Ego
If I say “I do X” or “I don’t do X” anywhere online, there is a certain type of person of a bemusing psychological type who will always get mad.
If I say “I don’t watch TV,” they get offended and say, “You just think you’re better than me because you don’t do that! You just want to be superior!”
If that’s you, this page isn’t for you. In fact, I’m not for you. Stop following me. I don’t think I’m superior than you. I don’t even know who you are. If you say or think things like this, you are the only one who would think I am “superior.”
To the point, yes, actually, I do want to be superior: There is never shame admitting you want to be better than you were before. If you get mad when people online go out of their way to learn about health or lifestyle or computers to do things a better, safer, purer and more productive way, I don’t really know what it says about you, but if you want to get that sorted out, you’ll have to do it without me because I don’t get it.
The only thing I can imagine is people like that don’t realize how serious life is. There are infinitely more pressing reasons to eat well, not waste time, live simply and interact well with others over looking good in front of others, especially those on the internet.
For everyone else, please continue reading…
Media
- I don’t own or watch a TV.
- I don’t watch television shows or films on the computer.
- I don’t have any type of social media.
- I don’t use a cell phone for anything other than messaging and calling.
- I don’t log into any account on my phone (i.e. no bank apps or other things).
- I don’t watch pornography. It’s a shame I have to put this as an exceptional, but unfortunately it is very common among men.
- I don’t listen to music or radio or anything else while driving.
Computing
- I don’t use anything other than free and open source (libre) software (since about 2015).
- I don’t play video games (I used to make a yearly exception for the Linuxfest LAN party).
Diet
- I don’t ever eat PUFAs/unstable oils: vegetable oils, canola oil, etc. (Use coconut oil, or butter instead.)
- I don’t drink soft drinks (last Coke in I think 2014, but before that it had been several years.)
- I don’t eat animal products on Wednesdays and Fridays (and other fasting days according to the Orthodox Church).
- I don’t do drugs of any sort.
Health
- I don’t use deodorant (since 2018 or so). I sometimes use a small wetted bit of baking soda if I plan to sweat in public, but on most days even when I will be laboring in heat, I don’t wear deodorant. “Based” people can explain the chemistry behind why but you will smell less offensive if you stop blocking your pores from disposing of their natural waste with chemicals and heavy metals in deodorant.
- I don’t use soap every time I shower. Most of the time I rinse only unless I want to eliminate body odor after intense work.
- I don’t use shampoo or any of this goo body wash stuff they sell now.
- I don’t do weight lifting. I’m probably wrong about this, but it has never been a habit. I do normally get natural weight exercise working on my property, but I don’t think as much as I’d like. Either way, I am not a big fan of the idea of contrived weight lifting. I do strongly recommend the book “Convict Conditioning” for naturalistic muscle-training and kalesthenics.
Things I used to not do.
- I used to not eat breakfast and did what amounts to intermittent fasting. Now I will have a small morning meal with some caffeine really because I am coming over to the Ray Peat way of looking at metabolism.
- I used to not drink caffeine. Now that I’ve been metabolism-pilled, I drink a small amount, but I consume only tea, not coffee (which has sometimes an order of magnitude more caffeine).