Daynil

I love Shortcat's approach in general, indexing the UI. However, the reliance on the Accessibility API is actually a significant downside in the real world in my experience since so many apps don't properly implement it. I feel like Warpd is a good complement to this, you could use Hint or Grid mode as a fallback when the indexing approach fails.

I wish I could use shortcat or Warpd, but unfortunately I'm on windows. Curious if anyone has any good tool recommendations for windows? Currently, I'm using:

1. Vimium for Chrome (so good, wish I could just use it across the OS).

If you feel your memory is limited in an area you do value instant recall that doesn't inherently produce regular repetition, there are ways to steer your long term memory consolidation. For example, you can train yourself to remember everyone's names when you meet them, if you value that. If you don't value it or put any particular effort into training it, there's no reason to think you've gone senile if you forget the name of most people you meet the first few times.

For most things, I think the second brain solution is ideal. You value something enough to want to be able to recall it at a moment's notice, but you don't have any real need to instantly recall it without reference. We're not taking closed book exams outside of school [1]. This is where all the Zoom notes and book quotes are placed, where you can further digest, interpret and later recall them if and when they become relevant.

To put it simply, using "cholesterol" as an indicator for anything is a completely oversimplified view originating in the 50s, when we didn't know enough molecular biology to know better. We've since moved on to breaking out LDL (bad) and HDL (good) cholesterol. However, as it turns out even that is too simplistic. There are further sub-classifications of LDL, such as large fluffy LDL and small dense LDL. If subclasifying LDL - Low-Density Lipoprotein - as "small and dense" seems counterintuitive, I agree. I feel like it's a result of the order in which we learned about all the forms of cholesterol, and a reflection of how complex the system is, and perhaps how much more we have left to fully understand it. As it turns out, so many of the perils of what we thought was caused by "high cholesterol", and then "high LDL/bad cholesterol" seem to be most strongly correlated with the small/dense LDL pattern. The irony is, we've been measuring everything but the main culprits, gaining an incomplete picture of what's actually going on, then ended up with wildly ineffective or harmful dietary recommendations as a result. A low fat high carb diet may reduce your cholesterol, but it can wreak havoc in so many other ways.

Bottom line is, eating a low carb, high fat diet increases all of your cholesterol (subject to individual variation), but seems to exert favorable effects on the overall ratio of the individual particles, which may be the important thing. If you're really interested in what's going on with your cholesterol, ask for a LDL particle size test, then you may be able to draw some more meaningful inferences. [1]

To me, it's a good hint that if every physical and mental aspect of your body improved on a diet, it's unlikely a bad thing. Best to discuss these things with your doctor though. Diet science is still a frustratingly murky field, so it's pretty hard to navigate right now. If you want to understand why, I highly recommend Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes.