🎩 [ Monthly Mentor ] - February
Books, Brendon Sanderson, Sous vide
The Monthly Mentor is an easy to skim bullet point list of things I enjoyed this month. Email context: you were subscribed to one of my email lists, but a few months we moved to Substack.
This is the Month Mentor of February 2025. My apologies for missing Dec and Jan.
[ Personal ] the past months had ups (snowboarding) and downs (lost a terminally ill aunt). We’ve pivoted to new priorities at work, and spring is shaping up to be filled with fun events in Amsterdam. One of my ongoing side projects is design designing a protein bar recipe that is not sweet but savoury, I think I'm 70% of the way there. I've gotten to the point where I am not the only person in the universe that thinks these things don't taste terrible.
[ Read ] The Stormlight Archives by Brendon Sanderson (link) - The final book in one of my favorite recent fantasy series just released (Wind and Truth). Brandan Sanderson is an excellent fantasy writers. His Mistborm books were the first ones I read by him, but the stormlight archives are my faves. It is a pleasant blend of interesting narrative, flawed characters, and cool world building.
[ Watch ] Brendon Sanderson at Tim Ferriss (link) - unlike most authors, Brendon Sanderson is very public about his process and how he thinks about his writing. Hearing him speak about how he constructs worlds and narratives is very inspiring. I also love that he thinks specifically about the business angle of running his business. This is something many authors seem not to think about.
[ Buy ] Anova Sous Vide stick (link) - in December I bought a vacuum sealer and I knew this would allow me to cook epic sous vide meat dishes. So far, I had been winging the water temperature by just adding hot water to a pan, measuring the right temperature, and then wrapping it in a towel and hoping for the best, which was often honestly quite good. This sous vide stick however is a huge upgrade, it looks like a rod mixer but allows precise temperature control controls over a large period of time. I honestly believe part of being an ethical meat eater is respecting the animal you're eating by cooking the meat in an excellent way.
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~ Mentor
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