Welcome to my newsletter! I’ve been thinking about it for months. This first post kicks off what I hope will be many opportunities to help myself and others become better men. You might know me as the guy who’s coached your kid in middle school track. Or maybe I coached you to a qualifying time…
Get this Warm CurrentI’m writing this from Whistler, British Columbia, where my family is crammed into a condo rental for the week. Me, my wife, our 15-year old daugther and our college-age daughter who we picked up from UBC on the way, and my mother-in-law who moved in across the street from us seven months ago. If you’ve…
Get this Warm CurrentAfter four years coaching middle school track and growing the team from 70 to 220 kids, I stepped away last spring. The kids were awesome, and we finished top three at city championships every year. We hosted visits from pro athletes from Adidas, Brooks, and Oiselle. With help from my assistant coaches, we built something…
Get this Warm CurrentThis is my fourth and last installment in my first series about an article in The Atlantic about luck in athletics. Links to the other three are below. If you’re reading this via email and you want those links, please click the link to read this Warm Current on the website. As I work through…
Get this Warm CurrentThis is part three of my series related to the role of luck in athletic success and how manosphere works against us. Links to the first couple of installments are at the bottom of this post. One concept in The Atlantic article on luck that caught my eye was the notion of a “paradox of…
Get this Warm CurrentI’m interrupting my planned third part of my series on the role of luck in athletic success. Links for the first two parts are below. I’ll resume the series soon, maybe even later this week. I decided today that anyone who has any kind of platform should be using it. And I don’t think staying…
Get this Warm CurrentI read an article in The Atlantic this week by Alex Hutchinson about the role of luck in athletic success. There’s a lot in it to unpack, so I’m going to make my thoughts about it the first series in Warm Current. The piece is called, “An Under-appreciated Variable in Sports Success: Sometimes athletes just…
Get this Warm CurrentThis time of year, you see the same thing everywhere: media content about making resolutions, reviewers ranking the “best” planners for the new year. They’re not wrong about needing a system. But I don’t think you should make resolutions. Resolutions are more like intentions, not commitments, which are more action-oriented to me. And I think…
Get this Warm CurrentI’m not a religious person, but I do enjoy that in the darkest days of the year, people (at least where I live) do seem to be a little bit more conscious of kindness and patience. Okay, sure, maybe not in grocery or department store aisles two days before Christmas. But I’ve witnessed a bit…
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