Growing up, I’d here this around the dinner table. Of course you don’t become broccoli if you eat broccoli.

But you do become shaped by your food in life-altering ways. Everything from our health (obvious), to our disposition (less obvious), and to our gut biome, which likely affects our epigenetics.

You are what you eat is a more specific comment on one of the fundamental truisms underpinning almost everything:

It’s circular but true, we become what we do.- From [It’s circular but true, we become what we do](./It’s circular but true, we become what we do.md)

I’m really feeling the need to create a new map of content around something I always think about…so here we go: Our Tools Shape Us MOC (not included in Ideaverse for Obsidian

Related: Feedback Loop


You rest your weary feet by sitting on a nearby stump. As you do, you slow down, and suddenly, you catch a glimmer of something under rock and tree branch. It’s an old, smashed scroll clasped in a gold-speckled ribbon. You open it.