Weekly Summary 🏊🏽‍♂️🚴🏽‍♂️🏃🏽‍♂️ TLDR: Jumped from 2,172 to 6,165 weekly kcal expenditure. The Why 7 months after moving back to the 🇺🇸, various life ups and downs meant my training had become stale, routine, and certainly not life-changing. Faced with a 50th birthday in 924 days (less

Sitting nonchalant in running gear. Ms 19: Dad, are you about to run? Me: Yes. But did you see what Mom’s making? There’s about to be potato salad. Ms. 19: You have to fuel your run. Me: I mean, I have to fuel my run. Like and subscribe for more creative ways to procrastinate.

Week in Review 🏊🏾‍♂️🚴🏾‍♂️🏃🏾‍♂️ Total kcal: 6,526 ⬇️ from 7,815 last week Why? Life. Iñaki recently wrote about designing for where the athlete is, not where they (or their coach) wish they were. This week, I was here: family logistics, work deadlines, work systems gone feral. Next

Week Summary 🏊🏾‍♂️🚴🏾‍♂️🏃🏾 Last week was a break from regular programming with a kayaking / rafting adventure. Structured movement (and therefore kcal banking) was low - I managed a 90’ run at one point - but unstructured movement and family time was at an all time high. Normal

Mrs. Wiki: Hey I’m need to be on work travel July 31, Aug 1. Does that work? Me: Yeah, sure. Where are you going? Mrs. Wiki: Oh, it’s some jazz festival and we’re meeting with a funder. In Newport? Me: Wait. As in The Newport Jazz Festival. Like. THE Jazz Festival. Mrs. Wiki:

Mrs Wiki: Dad will totally watch the Materialist. He enjoys RomComs. Me: What are you talking about?! My soul has space for exactly one RomCom and that space is occupied by You’ve Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle because it’s the same people. I’m not prepared to swap those out.

Me: Hey baby. You doin’ ok? Ms. 19: [Groan] I’m ovulating and my ovaries hurt. Ms.17: OMG Mom did you hear your daughter?! Mrs. Wiki: He’s ok. He’s Girl Dad. Follow me for more things that happen to me as I walk to the fridge.

Side hustle idea: A subscription service where you take out a massive loan and then send me the money and an estimate of your available free time. In return, I send you an endless list of projects that take all your free time and an extra hour to perform. I’ll even - for free -

Movement 🚶🏾 This week, I set up a walking pad in my home office (office is a stretch - it’s a corner of the downstairs family room, because actual work spaces are taken by real work-from-home wife). By midday, I logged 885 kcal over 2.75 hours of easy walking at 2.5 mph (missed

Mx. 17 has been hard at work doing AP Econ prep, SAT study and college application prep in these final weeks of summer. Me: Hey. I just want to say I’m really impressed with your work ethic this summer. Mx. 17: Work ethic? I woke up at 11:30 today. Me: Yeah but you’re balancing

A lot of smart minds and money went into decades of technology and innovation to give us the ability to instantly communicate with groups of people. This is how we’re utilizing human genius today.

Ten years ago I wished Te Maia a happy 10th birthday on Facebook and declared I couldn’t wait to reflect back on the intervening 10 years and “particularly the point where you started to love doing the dishes.” A throwaway line meant for an easy laugh. Because my humor, like my

I have a Substack called Permanent Rez because this is how we do things now. Truthfully, it’s just a collection of things I’ve written over time; and if you’re math-inclined, you’ll notice the dataset is sparse. I’m far better at thinking about writing than doing the writing.

And it begins… the UC applications are in. Keeya is taking her first step towards being able to define the essential character of who she is as a fully actualized human being in 350 words. For the kiwis, this is the University of California system (of which the two most famous

The problem, Gordo Byrn , with having Amazon deliver while you’re traveling is that your family absolutely will not tell you your highly anticipated book has arrived. They’ll just unpack it (assuming it’s something they ordered) and discard it on the nearest flat surface like

Ms. 17: Argh. This college app wants 200 words about concepts that inspire me?! What should I write?? Me: One word - brevity. I’m just trying to add value to my child’s life in a way that makes sense to me.

The Green Year 🏊🏾‍♂️🚴🏾‍♂️🏃🏾‍♂️💻 This weekend was a sub-max re-test to set zones for the next 8–12 weeks. Which, naturally, turned into a curiosity project. The last six months I’ve been neck-deep in process improvement and analytics tooling for our investment office (office is an over