Writing a LinkedIn style ‘what my boss cucking me taught me about being a manager’ is an interesting use of one of the internet’s town squares and I certainly hope we see more of it.
LinkedIn stories are the absolute worst, but maybe if we had more like that it wouldn’t be as boring. Something like “What my dom calling me a worthless pig taught me about salary negotiations.”
+10000 for the Brightwood! Incredibly well-priced for a medical facility ($160 for a Diamond Glow Facial and no tipping required). And the results speak for themselves.
Thought of you this week because I had the raw Neopolitan from Lifethyme. Honestly it slapped. Pretty much like our beloved Blue Magic cake but with chocolate and raspberry.
I am wondering if David will use allulose over monk fruit, erythritol or stevia. I have noticed a lot of the Shoppy-Shop-style and insanely priced low-sugar gummy candies use allulose plus various sweet-tasting fibers over those (or a blend). Generally allulose is neutral taste (no cool burn like erythritol) and potentially improves blood glucose responses, but I think it's expensive to manufacture. It's technically a type of sugar and has to be listed as such though, which is confusing and not great for marketing. Not ideal to have an asterisk explainer... But maybe someone will lobby and get that fixed. Anyway I've baked with it because I'll try anything once and it was actually nice! No weird tastes. You just need a little extra because it's only 70% as sweet as sugar. I just can't stand the cool burn of erythritol, or the bitterness of monk fruit and stevia. The only good tasting stevia product is Suja's Lemon Love, which is $7 of lemons, water, stevia, and cayenne pepper and therefore one of the most astronomically stupid things one can buy.
I am obsessed with Brian Johnson though. Best performance artist out there.
All 3 are considered natural in the sense that they come from natural sources or the compound occurs in nature, but in the foodie world a lot of people refer to them as artificial due to their not-quite-sugar taste
The David product will likely contain one or more of those, and/or one of the sweet fiber ingredients like agave inulin, chicory root fiber, soluble tapioca fiber etc, also all considered natural but sometimes by stretching the definition imo
These all offer different tradeoffs with regard to taste, calories, mouthfeel, and nasty stomach side effects for a lot of people
I think they are considered "natural". Erythritol is a sugar alcohol, monk fruit and stevia are both herbs/leaves. They're often used together (erythritol + monk fruit is most common) because each one of their own has some kind of technical shortcoming.
They have really upped the blue in the Blue Magic cake but it really should go back on top... alas.
I went to a discussion last year and Marcus Antebi was on the panel. I really appreciated everything he had to say. He was very real and honest. He wasn’t trying to be anything
0g sugar in the David bar... so it has to be stevia-based right? This is the frustrating thing about the protein bar space. It's either full of sugar (so not a good source of protein) or full of sweeteners (so not great for your gut and disgusting if you happen to hate the taste of stevia like I do)
Writing a LinkedIn style ‘what my boss cucking me taught me about being a manager’ is an interesting use of one of the internet’s town squares and I certainly hope we see more of it.
He should read this all-time classic: https://www.readfeedme.com/p/nothing-sexy-happens-on-slack
LinkedIn stories are the absolute worst, but maybe if we had more like that it wouldn’t be as boring. Something like “What my dom calling me a worthless pig taught me about salary negotiations.”
"I can share the full story once my NDA expires in September 2024.”
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+10000 for the Brightwood! Incredibly well-priced for a medical facility ($160 for a Diamond Glow Facial and no tipping required). And the results speak for themselves.
I’ve turned many friends onto their magic!!
They’re awesome
Thought of you this week because I had the raw Neopolitan from Lifethyme. Honestly it slapped. Pretty much like our beloved Blue Magic cake but with chocolate and raspberry.
I am wondering if David will use allulose over monk fruit, erythritol or stevia. I have noticed a lot of the Shoppy-Shop-style and insanely priced low-sugar gummy candies use allulose plus various sweet-tasting fibers over those (or a blend). Generally allulose is neutral taste (no cool burn like erythritol) and potentially improves blood glucose responses, but I think it's expensive to manufacture. It's technically a type of sugar and has to be listed as such though, which is confusing and not great for marketing. Not ideal to have an asterisk explainer... But maybe someone will lobby and get that fixed. Anyway I've baked with it because I'll try anything once and it was actually nice! No weird tastes. You just need a little extra because it's only 70% as sweet as sugar. I just can't stand the cool burn of erythritol, or the bitterness of monk fruit and stevia. The only good tasting stevia product is Suja's Lemon Love, which is $7 of lemons, water, stevia, and cayenne pepper and therefore one of the most astronomically stupid things one can buy.
I am obsessed with Brian Johnson though. Best performance artist out there.
ANYWAY...
are monk fruit, erythritol and stevia considered artificial sweeteners? they said they're not using those but now im v curious.
And I should really talk to the lifethyme recipe developer at this point
All 3 are considered natural in the sense that they come from natural sources or the compound occurs in nature, but in the foodie world a lot of people refer to them as artificial due to their not-quite-sugar taste
The David product will likely contain one or more of those, and/or one of the sweet fiber ingredients like agave inulin, chicory root fiber, soluble tapioca fiber etc, also all considered natural but sometimes by stretching the definition imo
These all offer different tradeoffs with regard to taste, calories, mouthfeel, and nasty stomach side effects for a lot of people
I think they are considered "natural". Erythritol is a sugar alcohol, monk fruit and stevia are both herbs/leaves. They're often used together (erythritol + monk fruit is most common) because each one of their own has some kind of technical shortcoming.
They have really upped the blue in the Blue Magic cake but it really should go back on top... alas.
I went to a discussion last year and Marcus Antebi was on the panel. I really appreciated everything he had to say. He was very real and honest. He wasn’t trying to be anything
I really liked speaking with him! Juice Press was such an incredible story.
I still have some of those stickers floating around in a drawer somewhere. now THAT is great marketing.
They were ridiculous, you have to find them
Pretty sure my candy bar brand inspired David with this IG post in 2022
https://www.instagram.com/p/CY4NAs1uo35/
I love your candy bars fwiw
that Antebi interview is great
Loving the LifeThyme shout out!
Truly my Eden
On my block. Love it as well.
I only jerk off w/ Aesop
0g sugar in the David bar... so it has to be stevia-based right? This is the frustrating thing about the protein bar space. It's either full of sugar (so not a good source of protein) or full of sweeteners (so not great for your gut and disgusting if you happen to hate the taste of stevia like I do)
Fundraise announcement says, "The bars will be sugar-free, gluten-free, and artificial sweetener/flavor-free."
color me intrigued!