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Implementing Lessons from the Blue Zones, Inconveniencing Myself, and Other Things I’m Focusing On In 2017
So-called “Blue Zones” are areas of the world in which people have significantly longer, healthier lives than the world-wide average. Blue Zones have been researched and written about pretty extensively and in a popular book about them, Dan Buettner extrapolated these basic themes: Moderate, regular physical activity. Life purpose. Stress reduction. Moderate calories intake. Plant-based…
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The BQ(Q) – Andrew Ng
Very cool that Andrew thought to recommend we check out his Strava page to see up close what it took to get his BQ. Thanks, Andrew! Name Andrew Ng Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 35 Height: 5’8 Weight (at the time of first BQ): 135lb At which marathon did you get…
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Your Occasional Stoic: A Hierarchy of Bad Acts
Theophrastus, in his comparison of bad acts says ones committed out of desire are worse than those which are committed through anger. For he who is excited by anger seems to turn away from reason with a certain pain and unconscious contraction; but he who offends through desire, being overpowered by pleasure, seems to be…
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Review: Alacron’s Lost City Radio
Lost City Radio Daniel Alacron She reads the names of missing and disappears people every night on the radio. Across the country, people tune it to hear the name of their loved ones, disappeared during the war years. She has a name of her own, which she does not read. Her husband, a borderline revolutionary…
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Review: Jornet’s Run of Die
Run or Die Kilian Jornet This memoir, written while he was still a very young man, is the story of the world’s greatest mountain runner. Jornet is the perfect storm of mountain athlete. Slight of stature, he was born at altitude, to parents who routinely went on epic adventures with him and his sister. As…
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Welch’s Winter in the Blood
Winter in the Blood James Welch Brutal, haunting and beautifully written tale of life over a couple of weeks on a reservation, in Montana, in the 1970s. If you think such a setting would produce a sad tale of heartbreak, death, alcoholism and little hope, you’d be right. Much of this book is brutal in…
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Your Occasional Stoic — Knowledge of Self
Not observing what is in the mind of another a man has seldom been seen to be unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy. -Meditation 2:8 Others are unknowable, you know this. It should not sadden you. But not knowing yourself? That’s a problem. Like many of…
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Review — Fitzgerald’s Racing Weight
Racing Weight Matt Fitzgerald A diet book that isn’t a diet book. A straight forward, no bullshit, guide to getting your weight to a level at which you will perform optimally at endurance events. The diet advice here is not revolutionary (eat whole foods, avoid bad shit as much as you can, don’t over eat,…
Milo and the Calf 