Tag: Health and Movement
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The Waari Calls Whom It Calls
The first time I experienced the Waari, it overwhelmed me. The rhythmic beat of the taal and the mridang, the saffron flags stretching as far as the eye could see, the chants, the dust, the…
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VI : We Asked Anyway
When we finished college, there was no such thing as campus placements, at least not for us, and getting a job was less about being chosen and more about how long you were willing to…
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The Invisible System Running Your World
You are living in an electromagnetic world, and you have never actually seen it or understood how it behaves Electromagnetism enables energy and information to move through the world, and Maxwell’s equations describe how it…
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The Story You Cannot Avoid
But how could you live and have no story to tell, Oh Fyodor! The line refuses to behave like something you admire and move on from because it lingers with a quiet persistence, as if…
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V : Lessons the Body Never Forgets
As a kid growing up every summer, I enrolled in the same hockey training camp, and although at the time it felt less like a camp and more like a carefully structured exercise in exhaustion,…
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II : Observed Before It Was Explained
The first time I attended a ten-day Vipassana course at the Global Vipassana Pagoda in April 2024, it was not a spontaneous decision. The idea had been orbiting my life since 1992, when Vipassana was…
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I : Felt Before It Was Interpreted
In 1993 I won a radio contest and walked away with Metallica’s Live Shit: Binge & Purge box set, and I remember holding it as if it were something rare and almost ceremonial, something that…
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I : Maintenance
People like starting things. They like building, launching, fixing, and improving. Maintenance doesn’t feel like any of that. When maintenance is done well, nothing happens. Things keep working. That makes it easy to ignore. Most…
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You Can’t Optimize Your Way Out of Biology
What we’re trying to do The modern longevity movement is driven by a very understandable instinct. If we can measure what matters inside the body, keep those measurements in acceptable ranges, and steadily improve them…
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What I Ended Up Doing This Year
People occasionally ask what I do. It’s a fair question. It just doesn’t have a neat answer. This year was a mix of writing, running, learning, investing, and paying attention in places that don’t compress…