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There are precious few on-ramps to exercise in America if you’re not naturally pretty good at exercising. I wrote about why that is, and why it should change. theatlantic.com/health/archive
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The other night, my son said to me, "You don't need to be at your best. I like you the way you are."
I don't know how that particular string of words was conjured into existence. But I'll be chewing on this for approximately the rest of my life.
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I don't want to see tit-for-tat policing in #Toronto. I want to see cops act just as patiently and gently the next time that (actually) marginalized people protest.
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Let's not argue about what media sources people can trust. Let's just come to an agreement about quality standards for information.
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Not pretending that a complex event is a question of one or two simple things is a good start.
I'm concerned about where the reported $7 million is headed.
And I'm concerned that a lot of good folks are becoming white supremacist-adjacent by literally standing next to them.
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As a PhD student studying the effects of digital disinformation & conspiracism on planning & policymaking I feel one of the best books out there explaining what we are seeing now with the #TruckerConvoy hyperbole is @Nlrosenblum & Russell Muirhead's 
press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove
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"Under capitalism, a thousand-year-old tree standing in the forest has no value until someone takes a chainsaw and cuts it down."
—John Biewen and the crew on what the GDP measures and does not measure.
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🧵Only someone with a terrible understanding of both COVID and obesity coupled with a wild degree of ableism and an ignorance of privilege would love an advertisement suggesting that exercise and diet are a great means to fight COVID /1
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I spoke with , , , and more about weight loss resolutions, getting abs, and what it actually takes to achieve your fitness goals. My latest for .
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"We ask men for their thoughts because we can't ask them for their feelings."
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What's the term to describe an argument where one person compares the best examples of the group they're arguing for with the worst examples of the group they're arguing against?
“What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.” RIP bell hooks
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Judging from chats I've had with all 3 of my kids, and with contact tracing dead, public health campaigns encouraging teens to do their own contact tracing are necessary. According to them, kids with COVID get shamed/blamed and as a consequence actively try to avoid disclosure.
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We're too eager to bet on people who overestimate themselves—and too hesitant to invest in those who underestimate themselves.
It's easier to build up confidence than to tear down arrogance.
The people with the most potential are the ones who know they have a lot to learn.
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If you don’t get pushback from the establishment, it’s not the frontier.
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Age is not about years. Or experience. Age is best measured by the amount of noise you make standing up and sitting down.
Just finished polishing one of the first episodes of the Dad Strength Podcast—dropping in January 2022.
This has been a long time coming. Excited to be so close.
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They say that the heart of a good compromise is mutual dissatisfaction. But I just worked out a deal where both parties feel like we're getting away with something—and I have to say that it feels pretty nice.
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Vendor: Geoff, we have an amazing alkaline water from Sweden. It's in a tetra-pack, so it's environmentally friendly.
Me: Except the part where you transport it from Sweden.
Vendor: ...
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Thrilled to share our paper, out today in , which proposes a new paradigm for the analysis of online platforms and applies it to study political polarization over the complete history of Reddit
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Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158
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Whispers into own chest:
"Do not moralize about other people's moralizing... Do not moralize about other people's moralizing..."
Your attention is magic.
So, you really have to consider what school of sorcery you subscribe to.
“Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.”
—Alfred North Whitehead
Nobody told Whitehead about YouTube algorithms.
The statement feels truthy to me but quality control needs to be included.
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135: A loss of confidence everythinghertz.com/135
We chat about well-known psychology studies that researchers have now lost confidence in due to replication failures and the role of auxiliary assumptions in hypothesis-driven research
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I've been training with sandbags for the big lifts and weighted carries. I spoke with and about why you also might want go incorporate a sandbag into your next workout. Words at .
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... which always turns out as predicted because it is rigged up by cynics, voted by demoralized masses, and tabulated by opportunists."
—Theodore Roszak
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ALTERNATIVES TO BURPEES
* Have people run 30m and ram their head into a wall
* Headspins for time
* Gently punch someone's acromion process for 30s intervals
I kid. But please be intentional and take good care of your people.
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