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Back to SearchA Love Letter to Walking
Episode 662
Back in July I made the research case for walking.
Today I want to do something different. I want to tell you what walking has actually given me.
In …
9 hours ago
Your Life Needs More Awe
Episode 661
Rachel Carson wrote that those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
I have been thinking about t…
1 day, 9 hours ago
Rest Is Not the Same as Doing Nothing
Episode 660
Lying on the couch scrolling your phone is inactivity.
But it is not rest.
In this episode I draw a clear distinction between what restores a human b…
2 days, 9 hours ago
Where Is Your Third Place?
Episode 659
Sociologist Ray Oldenburg spent his career studying something most of us have never thought to name.
He called it the third place.
Not home. Not work…
3 days, 9 hours ago
You Are Not What You Consume. You Are What You Absorb.
Episode 658
The more accurate version of "you are what you eat" is this: you are what you absorb.
And the same is true of information.
In this episode I explore …
4 days, 9 hours ago
Muscle Is More Than a Metabolic Organ
Episode 657
Somewhere between the bodybuilding world and the wellness world, we lost something important in the conversation about strength.
It got reduced to me…
5 days, 9 hours ago
Boredom Is Not an Emergency
Episode 656
We have become so uncomfortable with emptiness that we fill every available moment with something.
A podcast, a scroll, a task, a distraction.
And in…
6 days, 9 hours ago
When Did Eating Become So Complicated?
Episode 655
We have taken one of the most basic human activities and turned it into an anxiety-producing intellectual exercise.
In this episode I hold a nuanced …
1 week ago
Your Attention Is Part of Your Health
Episode 654
Most of us think carefully about what we put in our bodies.
Very few of us think with equal intentionality about what we put in our minds.
In this ep…
1 week, 1 day ago
Who Can You Call at 2 A.M.?
Episode 653
You can be in a room of ten thousand people and feel completely alone.
If no one there actually knows you, the numbers mean nothing.
In this episode …
1 week, 2 days ago