Thinking About Podcast
Thinking About Podcast
Kirsti McNabney
What If We Stopped Optimizing Everything? [SOLO Episode]
16 minutes Posted May 19, 2026 at 4:00 am.
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I read something on Substack recently that I haven't been able to stop thinking about: our grandmas didn't optimize everything. How have I never thought of that?!? I'm someone who has fully bought into optimization — the Garmin, the protein goals, the sleep scores… I love checking things off and feeling like I’ve succeeded. And yet somewhere along the way, I started to wonder: are we actually living better, or are we just living from a distance? I'm currently in what I can only describe as a ...