Happy Monday (and happy birthday to Kin!) and welcome to "The Extra Mile," an extra newsletter for Second Breakfast's paid subscribers. This is where I work out a bunch of ideas about health and technology that are still largely fragmentary, speculative, and – in a busy breakfast
I screwed up on Monday, sending all subscribers not just paid subscribers, an Extra Mile newsletter (which is supposed to be "bonus content" for the latter). I'm quite proud of how that Monday missive is shaping up, so I'm not mad that everyone got
A couple of weeks ago I complained – half jokingly and entirely straight-faced – about the lack of innovation in dental technology. But I confess, I neglected to mention the technological upgrade I did actually experience in the dental chair: being fitted for a mouth guard – a process that did not entail
On Tuesday, I received a push-notification from The New York Times. Breaking news, you know. Important stuff. Joey Chestnut was out of this year's hot dog eating contest at Coney Island. Chestnut, who's won the competition sixteen times, has split with the sponsor of the Fourth
The debate over which is better for muscle development — free weights or machines — is a long one, and I'll just state here at the outset of this essay, really beyond the scope of the kinds of stories I tell here at Second Breakfast. You can definitely find the
Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of Second Breakfast, and I cannot begin to articulate how relieved I am that, after everything I've been through – the book, the pandemic, the death, the grief – I've started to write again. Thank you so much for subscribing to this
Each Friday, I gather all the stories about health and sports technologies – "wellness," "fitness," whatever – that I've seen over the past week. It's all in an attempt to identify the prevailing narratives about the future of our minds and bodies. I'
In a recent essay in The New Yorker, Kyle Chayka writes about the "new generation" of online culture creators: curators, who "guided by their own cultivated sense of taste, ... bring their audiences news and insights in a particular cultural area, whether it’s fashion, books, music, food,
Happy Friday! Each week, I round up some of the latest stories circulating about the business of health, fitness, and sports technologies. This newsletter is free – thanks for reading! – but please consider becoming a paid subscriber. We're approaching the first anniversary of Second Breakfast, and I'm
This weekend, I shelled out $5.99 for a month-long subscription to the streaming service Peacock. I wanted to watch the Prefontaine Classic, the annual track and field event held at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon. In particular, I wanted to watch Sha'Carri Richardson in the
Welcome to The Extra Mile, where I hash out some ill-formed ideas about technology, bodies, and knowledge. This newsletter is bonus content for Second Breakfast paid subscribers. Thank you for your support (and apologies, I guess, that your reward is yet another email in your inbox).
I am a Luddite, as I'm sure you are all well aware by now. But just to be clear, this does not mean I am anti-technology. It means I am pro-human and more specifically pro-worker. As a Luddite, I am wary of — hell, opposed to — the development of