#12 Health!
You have 99 struggles until you have 1 health problem
Notes from Ömer
You have 99 struggles until you have 1 health problem. It isn’t easy to understand this before it happens to you. Almost every health issue somehow relates to stress, eating habits, and sleeping habits. Although our DNA may open some doors for some diseases, consider that DNA mutates over time as well, and your habits and lifestyle affect the DNA mutations.
I read it somewhere, it was saying that you can easily say that “I can die for my loved ones”, but can you live for them? Can you do exercise every day? Can you avoid that delicious but poisonous food? Can you quit smoking for them? Can you sleep well?
I’m not a doctor, but I feel it especially after I passed 30. In your 20s, your mind is full of your dreams, wishes, and passion. Taking care of yourself? Who cares? You sleep less than normal, your body handles it, you undertake the stress more than you can, and your mind handles it. I hope you had enough at 20s because at 30s you need to say “No!” to some stuff. You need to develop better self-discipline to take care of yourself for those you’re living up to.
Okay, let’s leave the dark clouds behind! haha
Let’s talk about tech now. I’m sure you have seen this video from Sam Altman and Jonny Ive. If you haven’t, let me finish before you move to video!
OpenAI is going to make a family of devices that will run with ChatGPT. Cool right? It’s hard to predict what kind of device will emerge, but as a keen observer, I caught something. Sam mentions the problem like this: to ask something to ChatGPT, I should reach down to my laptop, open it, then open a web browser, then type it, etc. Sam acts like ChatGPT has no mobile app, and they open it safely with a glance. No one carries a laptop to ask something to ChatGPT. He is smart enough to think about this. But this is how manipulation works. 😉
Hence, I am not very excited to be honest. Not because I don’t like ChatGPT, I use it ( not while writing this newsletter), but I can feel, when I use it extensively, it becomes smarter for my topics, and I become dumber, although my code and emails look elegant and smart 🤷♂️ . This becomes obvious when you should talk about something spontaneously in real life.
Ah! Yes, right, they are making tools for this as well. An interface to boost our brain capabilities with the tools of AI. What was it called? Neuralink!
I will stop here and invite you to the comments section. Let me know what’s your perspective.
Headlines for HW Developers:
ESP32-P4 Smart 86 Box: A compact development board with a 4-inch capacitive touchscreen, designed for HMI, smart control panels, and edge processing.
Raspberry Pi OS May 2025 Update (Bookworm-based): This was the most significant software news. The Raspberry Pi Foundation released an update to Raspberry Pi OS.
LineageOS 22.2 (Android 15) for Raspberry Pi 5: Unofficial builds of LineageOS 22.2, based on Android 15, are available for the Raspberry Pi 5, Pi 500, and Compute Module 5.
Olimex Open Source €20 Smart Home Server: Olimex highlighted a new open-source hardware and software project to create a very low-cost smart home server.
Updates from Mountain Labs🏔️
I’m glad to say that we shipped! 🚚 🎉
It’s been more than 2 months since we started shipping Odak Fresh Air Trackers for early bird users. A quick unboxing video is below.
We are happy to see that Odak managed to change ventilation and outdoor habits for our users. In our surveys, 100% of users mentioned that their ventilation habits changed, while 69.2% of them mentioned that it changed their outdoor activities habits. Of course, we need more data points to reach a conclusion. I am dropping some Odak photos from different desks below;
And yes, finally, we have a Kickstarter coming soon page. We prepared a funny video for Kickstarter. I am planning to release it before. Hopefully, in the next newsletter post, you will see it. Before that, please hit on “Notify me on launch button!”
Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1753407021/odak-air-tracker-personal-air-pollution-tracker
The Eid Al Adha (Kurban Bayramı) is approaching. I send greetings to those who are celebrating it and wish you a happy holiday. Have a great day and week ahead!
Ömer,
Mountain Labs