Part 2 of my "Adventures in Heart Rate Monitoring." (You can find Part 1 here.) Thanks for reading and supporting my work. Although fitness-related wearables like the Apple Watch or the FitBit are now marketed to everyone (along with the promise, of course, that the data they gather
Happy Friday! What’s good? During my long run this past weekend, I finished listening to the audiobook of Richard E. Grant’s recent memoir, A Pocketful of Happiness. Memoir is one of my favorite genres — I am fascinated by the narration of self — and I read a lot of
Welcome to Episode 3 of the Second Breakfast podcast. In today’s episode, I talk to Sherri Spelic, who is an educator — a PE teacher! — a coach, a former middle-distance runner, an ex-pat, a writer (the author of the book Care at the Core, which explores ideas around digital identity
Happy Friday! What's good? "We are living in a golden age of fitness," Yasmin Tayag writes in The Atlantic. "With workouts to accommodate every skill level, interest, time commitment, and social capacity, it should be easier than ever for novices to find one and get
Nikki slid the heart rate monitor onto my arm and fastened it around my bicep, then handed me a laminated piece of paper with a large, colorful bar graph. "During your workout," she said, "the monitor is going to tell you which 'zone' you'
Happy Friday! What's good? We've had the first substantial snowfall of the season here in NYC this week — indeed, the first accumulation of snow in the city in over 700 days. It's been bitterly cold as well, and while I know many of you
Happy Monday, and welcome to the third week of 2024. Last week, I gave up on one of my New Year's Resolutions. Well, "resolution" might not be the right word. "Goal" might not be right either. An item on my task list, more accurately.
Happy Friday! What's good? There's a lot of health technology news to share with you today as I took a break from writing this weekly column over the holidays (other than, ya know, those two massive reviews of the year in food and in fitness tech)
Happy New Year, and welcome to the new Second Breakfast! Based on the responses to the reader survey last year, I'm making a few changes — and not just to where the newsletter is hosted. Many of you said you missed Hack Education, and you wondered if maybe-please-oh-please I
This isn’t how I planned to end 2023 or start 2024. It’s not, to borrow from a grade school assignment, how I wanted to “spend my Christmas vacation.” But the owners of Substack have forced my hand with their open support for hate speech on the platform; so
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The final Second Breakfast newsletter of 2023! Phew!
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Part 2 of my annual review of all things tech, and I made it through this whole essay without mentioning B. F. Skinner once even though I still see behaviorism everywhere