NCAA Division I Baseball, Working at Google in 2016, Sustain Gluttony with Alex Feinberg

My guest is the author of Ten Easy Wins for Easier Fat Loss. Alex Feinberg is a former Sales Rep & Business Analyst at Google. He now works as the Director of Business Development at a cyptocurrency exchange. But says his true passion is helping others to achieve their health goals.

Alex (@sustaingluttony) is a strong advocate for health & wellness. At just 34 years old, he’s written three books, which endorse his diet manifesto & recipes. His books have sold in 25 countries around the world.

In this episode, Alex talks about his days as a Vanderbilt University baseball player. He believes playing baseball at Vandy helped him tremendously later in life. For example, the stresses of performing in front of 5,000-10,000 fans on SEC weekends is an experience many of his colleagues haven’t had.

Alex discusses how being in good shape is an advantage in the real world. He says people in good shape are almost always going to get preferred at work—something he first noticed at Google—they weren’t hiring overweight people.

“You’re likely to get hired if your body conveys that you have the ability to discipline yourself and keep a consistent work schedule,” Alex says. He also talks about eating right. And reveals the diet framework that works for him and how it’s opened up many opportunities.

This conversation was everything I anticipated it would be.

Questions asked:

Is there any sort of finagling that happens at Vanderbilt to try to get better athletes to the school?
Do you have a favorite memory from playing college baseball?
Were you working at Google when the James Damore controversy happened?
Is it only “fake news” when it goes against the desires of an intelligence agency?
As we get closer to the November election, will the media release info that would hurt Biden’s campaign?
What is your ideal body-fat percentage?
Has it become routine for you to not eat processed food & sugar?
[Staying in shape] Do you think you have an advantage being a former athlete?
What is your favorite thing to invest in?
What percentage of your net worth is in Bitcoin?

Fun questions:

Where were you the first time you logged on to the Internet and what did you do?
Which is more cancerous: sugar or feminism?
Has hyper-rationality harmed you in romantic relationships at all?
Is there a country you’ve visited that you’d most like to go back to?
If somebody dropped $1 million in your lap tomorrow, what would you do with it?
What % chance do you think Donald Trump has of being re-elected?
Overrated/Underrated: Mike Cernovich, Elon Musk, Dave Portnoy, Alex Rodriguez [as a commentator]