Tag Archives: fitness

Of wagons, and staying on them

A few weeks back, I got a minor tear in my left calf. Of all causes, it was from trip­ping down a gut­ter to avoid a skater! You’d think I had bet­ter bal­ance. When these things come early in a process of re-​​​​whatever (I’m re-​​​​ing a lot of things), it’s easy to fall back into […]

Numb3rs

The July issue of Wired (one of my favorite mag­a­zines) bears the tag line Liv­ing by Num­bers. A sig­nif­i­cant pro­por­tion of the mag­a­zine is devoted to men­tal and phys­i­cal hacks you can use to track your well­be­ing bases on quan­ti­ta­tive analy­sis. There are a bunch of great arti­cles in there on the mea­sur­able ben­e­fits, especially […]

The change

A cou­ple of weeks ago, my friend, Gavin Heaton, tagged me to write a Man­Week post. He wanted me, and the oth­ers tagged, to dis­cuss what we thought it meant to be a man, and why. I didn’t respond then, because I had too many things bounc­ing around in my head to say any­thing coherent. […]