In my opinion, walking is the most underappreciated activity in the known human universe. For most of our history, walking was a necessity. People would walk searching for food, to travel, to migrate. Now, most people rarely walk. We can drive our car to the grocery store. Most of our jobs are sedentary. It doesn’t …

I hate to admit this, but I have been a dues paying gym member for probably twenty five years. I know people say it is a poor financial decision, but I find a lot of value in it. My first home gym was Gold’s Gym. Twenty years ago, I worked out there all of the …

As of this blog post date, I am roughly two years alcohol free, over five years tobacco free, and decades since the use of any type of drug. Do I miss them? Not really. I think everyone gets to an age where they realize alcohol use, in any form, does more harm than good. Just …

What is more important than sleep? It is the bedrock of good health. For many years I disliked sleep. I rarely slept and I will admit that approach was wrong. Not getting enough rest makes you eat more calories. It affects your mood and your concentration levels. It affects your physical energy and keeps you …

I like to lean on John Doerr a lot. “You can only manage what you measure” is a favorite quote of mine from him. If you want to make progress, you need to benchmark something. Telemetry is the process of monitoring and gathering data from a process, and since I need to manually track the …

Aging is not fun I am told, and I am finding this out on my own. I am starting to see some changes, more gray hairs, a slower recovery from fatigue, and stiff joints when I’ve been sitting too long. With these changes occurring I am taking a little more proactive approach to these challenges. …

There is a new approach to how I blog. Since I have given up social media, I have moved all of my personal posts onto a Social tab instead of on the Blog tab to compensate. I also blog about my MBA journey on here, but I have moved that onto its own tab as …