Scott Adams on Trump and Reality in general

Scott Adams was an early viewer of Trump as a Master Persuader; this book gives details up through early 2017:

I read this in one sitting ... I've always been a fan of Dilbert, but I especially was interested in Adams' view of Trump as a Master Persuader ...

His story of Hillary supporters' threats during the campaign was also compelling; he also discusses hypnosis and the alternate versions of reality that we all inhabit.

Finally, he's a fan of Robert Cialdini, who apparently was advising Bernie Sanders and then Hillary (too little too late), and I've been a Cialdini fan since I read his first book decades ago:

Adams also has a "blog" which he's relaxed into a sloppy-sounding podcast and is begging for nickels on Patreon ... I would think he could self-fund this as he says in the book he has "fuck you money" and can therefore maintain his independent voice ...

I think both of these books would be of interest to any politician or sales person ...

How I control A-fib

I have a heart condition called Afib that's been there my whole life but only became a problem as I aged.

I found it getting "stuck" for hours and identified the difference in my day the day before: I walked around in the heat without getting as much to drink as I would have normally.

For a while I treated the condition with iced tea and potato chips. (I speculated that this was pretty much Gatorade.) This worked until it didn't ...

I found references to magnesium online and started taking a multi-supplement:

This worked for a while then I added potassium and gradually have been upping the amounts as necessary. I added another multi-factor supplement on advice of this alternative health provider in Issaquah, Mary Jane Mack:

This one has a long list of ingredients also ... I don't know why but this one was helpful in controlling the laxative effect that magnesium can have. It may be something to do with the combination of other ingredients or the particular form of magnesium it contains; I'm not sure.

The manufacturer of this one is making retailers pledge to only sell to people who've come in for an appointment once per year ... but of course, one can order from Amazon without that restriction ...

In general, magnesium citrate and magnesium lactate seem best for not getting my guts too excited.

My current morming regimen:

• 2 Tri-Boron Plus
• 2 99mg Potassium 
• 2 Biocardiozyme forte
• 1 250mg Magnesium

In the evening I take:   

• 2 Tri-Boron Plus
• 2 99mg Potassium
• 2 Biocardiozyme Forte
• 1 133mg Magnesium
• 1 1000mg Vitamin C
• 1 1000iu Vitamin D
• 1 200mcg Selenium

And late evening:

• 1 more 99mg Potassium

I hope this is helpful; post a question in the comments if you want to know anything else.

A self-driving car built from the ground up. Are Tesla and Uber F*cked?

This article in Bloomberg Businessweek on Friday piqued my interest: it's on Zoox, a self-driving car startup that designed and built its car from the ground up to be autonomous, without just bolting on hardware to a standard car.

It's designed without a steering wheel and to look the same from either end so it can go into a parking space one way and out the other way.

The review in the article is effusive on the smoothness of the ride ... the Zoox car prototype even "glided to a stop" ...

The prototypes are named VH1, VH2, etc. ... VH standing for "vaporware horseshit" in a nod to critics of the company.

Interesting times we live in!