What’s up @bcherny! 😁 Welcome to Uber HQ!

Love the idea of a mental gym: training your brain like you train your body

I want you to eat blueberries, just not with bananas (unless you really want to). In my new episode, I examine the evidence for blueberries' benefits on blood flow, brain aging, glucose regulation, gut health, inflammation, and exercise recovery. Blueberries improve the ability of arteries to relax and deliver blood to the brain, heart, and working muscles. They can improve insulin sensitivity and buffer the blood-sugar response to a calorie-rich meal. Human interventions have also demonstrated improved aspects of memory and cognition in older adults, while observational data link regular blueberry intake to slower cognitive decline. This isn’t simply an antioxidant story. Blueberry polyphenols act like biological signals, influencing nitric oxide, inflammation, gene expression, and possibly neuronal plasticity. I also revisit the controversial banana-smoothie question, and explain why I take a cautious approach when my goal is maximizing blueberry-polyphenol exposure. The full episode is out now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:15 - Beyond antioxidants 3:01 - The polyphenols that matter 5:18 - Three layers of brain evidence 6:30 - Memory & cognitive flexibility 9:05 - Slower cognitive aging 10:14 - Why dementia estimates diverge 13:33 - Brain benefits beyond blood flow 16:18 - Helping arteries widen on demand 21:22 - One cup vs. half a cup 24:09 - Vascular effects after menopause 24:32 - The cardiovascular evidence chain 27:09 - From nitric oxide to 600 genes 33:14 - Why insulin findings conflict 37:10 - A modest HbA1c improvement 37:54 - Post-meal glucose control 39:51 - Three cohorts, one pattern 40:16 - Metabolic benefits under strain 41:19 - Gut function vs. composition 45:10 - When poor absorption may help 46:44 - Exercise performance vs. recovery 49:53 - The blender as a reaction chamber 53:22 - How quinones degrade anthocyanins 56:38 - The 2023 banana smoothie study 1:02:28 - Why avocado over banana? 1:04:58 - The case for one cup daily

Diving into @impeccable_ai: design verbs, slop detection, static analysis and learning how to contribute mager.co/blog/2026-10-04-div…

Omg Philly can’t catch a break

So hard to pick #my9albums h/t @whatdotcd mager.co/blog/2026-10-04-my-…

I built my own shell in Rust with git aliases, autocomplete, & themes. Blog: mager.co/blog/2026-10-02-moo… Landing page: moodsh.vercel.app/ Source: github.com/mager/moodsh

Anything can still happen, this is the #Phillies

Opus 5.5 is like Peyton in retirement, whereas Sonnet 5.5 is like Eli in his prime. Sometimes you want deep analysis, other times you want pure execution.

Chicagoans be like: Chicago is the only city in the world with 2 playoff baseball teams

Now is the time to put in Dalton

Let’s go Birds, plenty of time #FlyEaglesFly

Shouldn’t they have shortened the local news instead of #SNL?

Let’s go #Phillies 🙏

You’ve achieved a new level when you are solving a 2FA for your agent.

Shōta Imanaga was created for champagne showers 🤣 “YUMMY!”

Put $5 on #Cubs vs. #WhiteSox in the World Series. It could happen!

I am a huge fan of @FluidVoiceApp for talking to agents. It’s free OSS and has its own internal model that keeps getting more accurate. Try it out!

Impromptu #SFGiants game with the Uber interns #LouSeal

- 42 y/o, healthy podcast-pilled - smart, funny, heavy hearted - post-garlic noodles - can eat anywhere, but will usually order it from Uber Eats - sober September, minus a few bday drinks - social skills still in COVID times - averse to corgis, prefer labs - taken!