Welcome to this week's edition of Uncrowded Strategies.
Here are my private notes on what I’m building, how I’m growing my family, and the weird things I’m doing to optimize my health this week.
🧪 The Business Experiment
(Focus: AI as a thinking mirror, not a worker)
For a long time, I treated AI like a very obedient intern. I’d craft prompts, request frameworks, and draft. It worked… but the more I delegated execution, the more generic my thinking became.
The Shift: I stopped using AI to produce and started using it to reflect. Instead of prompting at it, I started talking with it. Long, messy, half-formed thoughts about where I felt stuck or what felt "off."
The Hypothesis: If I let AI do less "work," my output would slow down.
The Reality: Output didn’t slow—decisions sped up.
What surfaced wasn’t better copy; it was clearer judgment. The bottleneck wasn't execution. It was taste. It was knowing when something felt slightly wrong, even if it looked correct on paper.
The Takeaway: AI scales execution, but it exposes judgment. And right now, taste & judgment is the rarest skill in the room.
❤️ The Partnership (Leading by Presence)
There was a moment recently where Zoey was overwhelmed—mentally and emotionally. My instinct kicked in immediately: Fix Mode. Suggestions. Solutions. Reframing.
And then I stopped. Not because I suddenly became more mature, but because I realized that every "helpful" solution was quietly saying: "You shouldn’t feel this way."
The "Uncrowded" Move: Staying instead of solving. I didn’t optimize her emotions. I didn’t rush her toward peace. I just let her be where she was.
The Result: The tension dissolved faster than any solution I could’ve offered.
The Lesson: Leadership in marriage isn’t about direction. It’s about safety. And safety often comes from presence, not fixing.
💰 The Portfolio
Lately, the most noticeable thing in my portfolio isn’t volatility—it’s boredom. No fireworks. Just long stretches of nothing happening. And I realized how uncomfortable that makes me feel.
We are trained to equate movement with intelligence. But markets don’t reward constant activity—they reward conviction held through quiet.
The Uncrowded Thesis: Boredom is the cost of conviction. If you believe in a long-term thesis, most of the time should feel uneventful. If it feels exciting all the time, you’re probably trading noise.
The Signal: If it feels boring, you’re either early—or right.
🧬 The Protocol (Health & Weirdness)
Topic: My Blood Test Results (March vs. Dec 2025)
I did two comprehensive blood tests last year to track my progress. Between these tests, I just got my Dec 2025 result recently.
I made only two major protocol changes:
HBOT Protocol: Completed 60 sessions of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in 90 days.
High-Dose EPA: Taking ~2g of EPA per day (as mentioned in previous newsletter).
The Results:
🫀 Metabolic & Cardiovascular
HDL (Good Cholesterol): 1.24 → 1.62 ⬆️ (Big improvement in insulin sensitivity)
Triglycerides: 0.78 → 0.48 ⬇️ (Massive drop in liver fat production)
Cholesterol Ratio: 3.40 → 2.88 ⬇️ (Clear risk reduction)
🔥 Inflammation
hs-CRP: 1.00 → 0.57 ⬇️
What it means: My body’s background inflammation is much calmer. This is likely the HBOT doing its work.
🧠 Hormones (The Big One)
Total Testosterone: 19.5 → 26.4 nmol/L ⬆️
Context: This is a massive jump (~35%). It is especially notable because the December test was in the afternoon (when T levels naturally drop), yet it was still significantly higher than the March morning baseline.
I’m showing you data on what I am doing for my health. Not shilling anything.
That’s it for this week! Pure value, no fluff
See you next week,
Gabriel Wong