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…
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Care is about taking responsibility for my own well-being and extending that care to others.
There’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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Your Gift to Yourself
I’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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I was on the bus to work this week listening to a podcast that mentioned this story saying “most” American teens are on YouTube and TikTok “almost constantly.” I thought about my two teens. While I don’t love their phone time, I don’t think it’s “almost constantly,” because my youngest has parental controls and surrenders…
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Sometime during the Covid pandemic, I became interested in learning about watches. Specifically, I was interested in automatic watches, which are mechanical, not battery driven. They’re based on very old technology that has evolved since the 15th century, when springs were used in clocks. Portable clocks made the jump to wrists in the 1800s, and…
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I fell while running recently. I hit some uneven sidewalk and just went head-first to the ground, bracing my fall with my hands. As you can see, they got pretty chewed up, and tbh, it hurt quite a lot. Worse, I had fallen about a month ago and turned my hands into hamburger. So, it…
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Personal Progress Is Not Linear (Plus Photos of Men Doing Things to Ponder)
Two things this week: One is a follow up to last week’s newsletter where I committed to doing something about a lack of friends. The second is I want to share some screengrabs I nabbed of pro athletes doing things I don’t see men doing much of, and I will continue riffing on my emerging…
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