🌱 Why I stopped eating spinach

Learn: Spinach Dangers, LNO Framework, 1934 Construction

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Hola from Buenos Aires, 

Here are 3 goodies to make your week more impactful. 

🥬 Spinach & Kidney Stones

I keep hearing about more and more people passing kidney stones recently.  

I’m not talking about old geezers, I’m talking young healthy people. 

After I passed a kidney stone in 2016 I learned a TON about them. Specifically, how spinach is the #1 culprit because it’s so high in “oxalate” which forms stones. (It’s okay, I had no idea what oxalate was either)

I wrote this article to share everything I learned — so you can avoid this painful endeavor. 

It includes the top foods to AVOID and it may or may not include a picture of my exact stone!

If you (or any loved ones) eat a lot of spinach or almonds you'll especially want to check out the article here. 

✅ LNO Framework

We all are busy. 

And this is easy to forget… but not all tasks are created equal. 

Former Google and Stripe PM, Shreyas Doshi, explains the 3 different types of tasks:

• Leverage: input 1 unit of effort, get back 10

• Neutral: input 1 unit of effort, get back 1

• Overhead: input 1 unit of effort, get back <1

Here’s a quick video explaining his epiphany, and how he now focuses on the few “L” tasks. 

Try keeping just a simple chart this week to see where your tasks fall. You might be surprised. 

🏗️ Perspective

Here’s the Golden Gate Bridge under construction in 1934.

A beautiful reminder that everything great first starts out under construction. H/t @Historyinmemes 

Con mucho gusto,

Mitchell 

Ps. Tank you