You probably don’t spend a lot of time consuming the social content created by the guys featured in “Inside the Manosphere,” but your son probably has. And your daughter might be dating him. Recent data shows 60% of adolescent boys find influencers inspirational, and the algorithm is feeding them a steady diet of “alpha” posturing…
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Care is about taking responsibility for my own well-being and extending that care to others.
Media Manosphere Pile-On: April 2026 Edition
You know what’s gratifying? Wondering if you’re the only one who feels a certain way and finding out you’re not. Happened to me in the last week when I saw two videos I want to share with you. Late Show host Stephen Colbert has added a new segment to his show called “Are Men OK?”…
Get this Warm CurrentThe Car That Almost Hit Me, and the Truth That Actually Did
A few days ago, an incident in a hardware store parking lot forced me to face some deep internal struggles and reminded me why I use running as my laboratory for growth. As I walked toward the entrance, I made eye contact with a driver approaching me. He appeared to stop, so I kept walking….
Get this Warm CurrentChasing Knowledge That Won’t Make Me Happy
I shared my 2026 running goals with a couple of dads last week, and their responses made me realize I’ve never told Warm Current readers the story about what drives me. As I recently posted, I’m training to race the mile this summer. I want to see how fast this 58-year-old body can go. When…
Get this Warm CurrentPostcards from The Edge (of Irritation)
I’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 CurrentA Difficult Decision and a New Athlete: Myself
After 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 CurrentWhat the Hustle Bros Won’t Tell You
This 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 CurrentThere’s a line.
I’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…
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How My Track Team Got So Huge
I 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…
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