Awesome work! It takes a lot of guts to go out on your own and bet on yourself. I did that over two years ago and I'll never regret it - the amount of time I get to spend with my kids is incredible, and serving customers that use and love the tools you build is a great feeling.
Someone on Twitter calculated about 55,000 calories burned. Not sure if he had things to consume while running - but 8 - 10 lbs of fat burned in one day is wild to think about.
Dang, that would be SO impressive... <1000 calories an hour would mean he is running SUPER efficiently from a body perspective, but of course, with the right hydration, nutrition, and temperature it is all possible to burn less calories.
Whether you walk it or run it, a mile is about 100 calories. So, give or take, ~20,000 calories. Divide by 3500 calories/lb. and he burned five pounds of fat he probably didn't have to spare. But not so fast, he was also consuming calories along the way, and consuming a lot.
So calculating the net burn would be quite difficult. But the gross burn was probably about five pounds/2.25Kg.
Definitely had things to consume. I don’t think you could go through this kind of effort on your energy storage only. I don’t think it can be mobilised that fast. Hydratation probably is a major concern too.
Not sure if he had things to consume while running
Oh, he had things to consume. I ran 16 miles on hilly terrain on Saturday, and just for that I brought about 500 calories with me (not all consumed, some was "just in case").
It has been said that your liver stores about 2000 calories of glycogen. Divide by ~100 calories/mile, and now you know why marathoners hit "the wall" at about 20 miles if they don't chomp on some calories along the way.
Author here - We do that too! Typically we'll write a letter for the other person for their birthday. It's a much more reflective letter (whereas the daily note is more "what's going on right now"). Great tip.
I thought your title and tagline were kind of clickbait-y, but you really inspired me to try what you suggested. I haven't yet overcome the feeling that anything I write to my wife needs to be an elaborate carefully constructed love note to be worthwhile. What you outlined sounds like just writing down some of the contents of regular conversations is what I usually talk about with her in the evenings (since we have no kids yet).
... it also made me think about one of the interesting balances I have to strike in our evening conversations, where I need to remember to stop rambling about technical details of work I'm excited to tell her about but are selfish to monopolize the conversation with (even though I know she does want to hear sometimes). The idea of transferring aspect of conversation to writing is very interesting, and seems like a good opportunity for self examination on my part to be a better spouse.
Author here - Religion doesn't demand having lots of kids, though the Bible does say having lots of kids is a blessing.
4 kids 6 and younger is one child every two years. My youngest is 6 months. It's an aggressive pace but hardly unreasonable.
We wanted to have all of our kids together so they could be friends. And it makes the parenting window much shorter (25 years until they are all adults and moving out). Some people spread their kids out and have kids in the home for 30-35 years.
every two years doesn't feel that aggressive. my brothers and me are closer together. and most people i know are similar. my own kids are spread out by three years, and that's only because the doctors here said that after a c-section you have to wait 3 years before you can have another child. to me that feels quite spread out. the age difference between the oldest and the youngest is 6 years, and sometimes it's a challenge for them to get along because of that age difference.
Author here - I added an addendum to the end of the article. I write notes in a notes app (I use notion, but you can use whatever). Then I usually text it to her (though email would work fine). I keep it very simple, and I type a lot faster than I write by hand.
