Real Salt:

• Sea salt is very different from table salt, which is simply sodium and chloride. The people at Redmon are very passionate about salt. 
• They sell a product (Amazon, Whole Foods, etc) that is unrefined true sea salt from Utah. You will notice the slightly sweet, more complex flavor of their salt. Spoiler alert, Magnesium clocks in at 915 parts per million. 
• If you onlyeat sea salt, make sure you eat seafood / seaweed, or you could take iodine supplements. 

Be Kind:

• Ryan Holiday writes short but profound pieces. This is one of those you just wish you had written yourself. Common sense and just something that needed to be said. 
• He tells a story of Jeff Bezos as a child making his grandmother cry, even though he was just stating facts. In the current political climate, we could all be a little more polite to each other. 

Bullies:

• This article from the NYTimes, written by a physician, describes the “bully” culture in medicine. He describes literature on physicians, medical students, and nurses who have been mistreated in the workplace. Medicine seems to be changing for the better with respect to these occurrences. 
• We do not want to swing too far in the other direction by reducing the challenge of medical training. People cherish something more when it is very difficult to earn. We can work long hours and strive for (near) perfect patient care without mistreating each other. 

Bad Boy Chefs:

• Medium articleby the wife of a chef, “one lucky enough to have made it through his early wasted years intact.” She writes about the bad boy restaurant culture. Work hard, play even harder. 
• The article could have been about a resident working long hours, or an attending who has no duty hour restrictions. Pushing through to the next stage in a toxic cycle. 
• This is not to be confused with this New Yorker pieceon a different kind of Bad Boy Chef. Thanks Hugh and Lisa Shoff for the recommendation. 

Wall Sits:

• Another easy exercise to do right now in your office, in your kitchen, wherever you are. The make your transversus abdominis and internal oblique muscles thicker. They can help lower your blood pressure. They seem to even help posture. Plus they hurt like hell so you know they are effective. 

Quote:

Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest. 
-Colleen Wainwright