Welcome to Newsletter #11.

For some reason this didn't send to my email subscribers yesterday despite the platform posting to LinkedIn and Twitter. Hopefully if you're reading this it means the re-send has worked!

This week we have some more egg news and a look at a popular podcast I've recently discovered.

Food

The fresh eggs from our neighbour's chickens are still coming thick and fast. I mentioned last week that I'd had some cooked breakfasts: these had been with fried eggs, which although delicious did feel pretty unhealthy after the third time in as many days.

This week I've been soft boiling eggs and having them with soldiers. Well, I can't find any eggcups, so I'm scooping the insides of two boiled egg onto toast before cutting into strips. I can't believe how much I'm enjoying them; it has become my staple breakfast and I even had a serving as a casual afternoon snack the other day.

While writing this I suddenly thought "Is this actually a healthy meal?", googled it and apparently they are very high in cholesterol and you shouldn't have more than 1-2 each day. Sad.

My partner fancied chicken nuggets the other day so I made some with two different coatings, one from flour, the other breadcrumbs.

Breadcrumb coating:

Flour coating:

For both:

You might need to do this in batches as you don't want the pan to be too squished, and as they don't all go in together, you may find some are complete before others.

I served with three different dips - sweet curry, sweet chili and bbq and we both preferred the breadcrumb coating.

Film

The Diary Of A CEO is a podcast by Steven Bartlett (most famous for being the youngest dragon on Dragons' Den). Each episode is a one-on-one candid interview / discussion with his guests and I suspect due to the relaxed casual setup, the guests seem happy to be extremely open and vulnerable. All of the episodes are filmed and available on his YouTube channel, and it's here where I've been working my way through a sliver of his back catalogue.

I particularly enjoyed his interview with Mo Gawdat, the former Google exec who after the unexpected death of his son, made it his life's mission to become an expert on happiness and share with his findings with one billion people. He also goes on to discuss one of the biggest threats to the world in the near future being the evolution of AI and it makes for some chilling viewing.

Another episode which resonated with me is an interview with Julian Treasure, who is most famous for being an expert in speaking, but his interview revealed how he is most passionate about the importance of being a good listener. The discussion spanned into life values and I was impressed with Julian's so wanted to share them with you:

• Faith that everything will be OK. This isn't necessarily a religious faith, more a belief that things will work out, which encourages Julian to take opportunities rather than worry about the 'what ifs'.

• Love for people and life. He describes the example of finding other commuters irritating when they walk too slowly, get in your way, dawdle etc, and described how much more light he feels by trying to have the thought of 'bless you' to everyone he walks past or encounters, rather than unprovoked annoyance.

• Acceptance of both life and other people. We have so little control that he's far happier to just go with the flow and see what happens. When it comes to others we should just accept people as they are and not try to change them.

• Gratitude. If you're reading this newsletter you are likely in the top 1% of people globally in terms of measurable quality of life. It can be helpful to remember this rather than comparing your situation with those who have 'more'.

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Thanks for reading and have a great week.

Adam