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 fashion before one launches on to the next thing – sort of half-baked.
Consistency. Influencers and pundits from all sectors, but particularly from health and wellness, like to talk about consistency as the key to greatness. "A habit must be established before it can be improved," James Clear writes in Atomic Habits. "If you can't learn the basic
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