I started this week off similar to all of you, grovelling at the cost of food. If you love cauliflower then it’s a very sad time for you my friend. And it looks like that hole in your wallet from your food purchases is slated to get bigger before it eventually gets smaller, IF that will actually happen?

I scoff at prices in the grocery store as I walk around. No, I’m not just walking around scoffing at things in a grocery store like I hate the place. Although truthfully, if the store’s floors are sticky AF, I’ll be sucking my teeth (the Scarborough in me) until I leave through the automatic doors with my overpriced CHUNKY MONKEY BEN & JERRY’S ICE CREAM.

Who am I kidding - no one can afford Ben & Jerry’s ice cream right now

And forget about trying to run retail arbitrage schemes these days. Remember when you could sell baby formula in China and they would pay a premium? No? Well there was a whole underground market for this a few years ago. These days people are paying more for formula than their actual grocery bill.

OK OK no more old man complaining. We’ll eventually get back to the point where we can open up our own fake Trader Joe’s stores and continue re-selling goods for profit too.

This week's issue is a 4 minute read:

👫 Inflation & Dating

🧘 The man who will outlive us all

🤯 Fake Pentagon explosion

Dating while everything is expensive AF

There’s more than one side to the inflation equation. You’ve got the grumpy parent who fantasizes about driving off without paying for expensive gas while reading the sign on the pump about stealing gas. And then you have the single person who is spending what I spend on groceries just to go out on a date.

A recent survey performed by The Hustle showcased just how much people are spending on dates these days. The numbers were staggering! 

Just joking - I just thought it would be cool to say that. But here are some interesting stats on how much people are spending on trying to find a partner.

• The average date costs $68 however there was a strong correlation on how much you make versus how much you will spend with the average price of a date being $80-$102 if you made between $125K-$150K a year

• The most popular date was getting drinks at a bar - duh

• 83% of men vs 5% of women said they paid for the date - duh

• The average cost of the most expensive dates was $492 with a trip to Bangkok at $10K being the most expensive…how is a trip to Bangkok considered a date though??

Suffice to say swiping right costs more than it ever did before. At least that’s what I’ve heard…dating apps didn’t exist until after I got married 😇 

Spending $2M a year for the fountain of youth

My wife and I have this debate every so often: what’s a good age to live till? She wants to live into her 80’s, maybe 90’s (?) and call it a day…err life. Whereas I want to live as long as possible into my 100s, see us get to Mars, plug a Neurolink into my neck, and be a senior citizen alongside my senior citizen kids.

Thanks to Bryan Johnson, I think I’ve finally found the blueprint to living to 100 or longer besides doing the obvious things of eating well, exercising, and getting good sleep. After selling his company for $800M, Bryan decided to take his health seriously becoming the world’s most measured human. Costing him $2M a year, he hired a giant team of doctors and specialists to monitor his every biological move and based on all of his data, calculate what his optimal living routine should be.

Based on all of these calculations, Bryan’s team developed a personalized 100 step daily routine that he’s been following for the past 2 years. Thanks to this routine, at 45 years old he is biologically 31 years old, is now aging slower than the average 10 year old, and amongst other things (my personal favourite) he has reduced his amount of gray hair by 80%.

Dude has an algorithm in his bedroom that automatically adjusts the temperature of his room based on his body temperature while he sleeps

To get a glimpse into everything Bryan does check out this video (I was just impressed that he took the time to load the dishwasher properly!)

This week in news that will freak you out

Sure, fake news gets reported on all the time, media companies extend the truth and try to scare you, yadda yadda yadda. This time around though a verified account on Twitter which was actually a fake Bloomberg account posted a fake photo of an explosion at the pentagon and people believed it 👈️ this sentence feels like an oxymoron.

It’s already a little unnerving seeing real catastrophic events online but it’s another thing when fake photos and videos start popping up and people start to believe it. The S&P 500 took a hit as the market responded as if the news was real just after the photo was posted online.

Something tells me this isn’t the last of assumingly AI generated content duping the public and making them move accordingly. Reminds you a bit like the meme stock frenzy in 2021 doesn’t it? Buzz is generated around something, then everyone starts believing the buzz, and all of the sudden the buzz is real and influential. 

CNN and Fox News has already shown us that you can’t trust the news that media companies give us. With Elon taking over Twitter, his goal was to create the space on the internet where you would get your unbiased, authentic breaking news. Meanwhile we have meme accounts everywhere on Twitter spamming for attention. Someone somewhere is about to release a “Was it created by AI” browser plug-in so you always know what’s real and what’s fake. Crazy times ahead!