Ask Paul: September 20 (Premium)

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Keto
Ben Lee asks:

I put on lots of weight over the last year due to breaking my ankle and not adapting my diet to accommodate for the lack of exercise. And I've heard good things about a ketogenic diet from yourself and on several podcasts. I was wondering where you got started with it and how you understood what foods you could or couldn't continue eating? I've looked around a good bit, but I'm just overwhelmed with the choices and sources.

The way I got started was with the 2 Keto Dudes podcast, which is science-based. It was originally started by Carl Franklin and Richard Morris, but Morris has left to go back to school, so Carrie Brown has stepped in as the new co-host. I strongly recommend starting with this podcast and picking through some of the foundational episodes, or the ones that look most interesting to you.
Note 10+
olters asks:

Hey Paul. How's the Note 10+ going for you? Do you think it could be your primary phone?

Yes and no.

Yes, because it’s a fantastic, fantastic handset overall. Possibly the best.

No, because the camera is not better than that on the Huawei Mate 20 Pro and P30 Pro, and the Pixel 3 series (or older).

More to the point, I’ll be getting a OnePlus 7T Pro next week, an iPhone 11 Pro Max in 2-3 weeks, and a Google Pixel 4 (something) in a month. (And I hope to get a Mate 30 Pro as well.) So I’ll be distracted testing those as well. And there’s the year.

We’ll see where I end up. But the Note 10+ is fantastic, and I will definitely be holding onto it regardless of where I end up.
Upgrade paths
Shane asks:

I was thinking for a while about making a post about this. It’s about upgrading devices. I know you have mentioned recently about this, one comment was about all the phones you have and that really they are all good phones and any would do. But just talking phones and the upgrade path. Do you think manufacturers are pushing themselves into a corner when regular people who can and will keep a phone for more than 3/4 years, because the phones are way too good for what most people need? I know people with 4/5-year-old phones and couldn't care less. They are happy.

For about a decade, Apple’s business model in particular relied on frequent (1-2 years) upgrades, and it wasn’t that long ago that I was congratulating them on the iPhone Upgrade Program, which kept customers on the annual treadmill as permanently as possible. But it’s clear now that buyers stretching out upgrades ever-long---three, four years or longer---is the new normal. And that it’s permanent because the market has matured. So it would seem like this would be a problem for phone makers that rely on frequent upgrades. But here, again, it seems that Apple is leading the way to the next generation. Which in this case is services.

This is smart, and because Apple has such a loyal user base, it will ...