The first thing to be said is that I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. They might work for some people, and more power to them. I operate under a level of self-criticism that essentially amounts to a series of resolutions on a near-daily basis—I should be doing this, I should be doing that. Instead, … Read more →

For the first years of this blog, I wrote a pair of Retrospective/Prospective posts that looked back at the year that was, and forward to the year that will be, respectively. I ceased this practice for the two reasons that I simply forgot that I had a blog for a season, and that somewhere along … Read more →

Runners have it bad. 8 of 10 active runners succumb to injury every year. I’m a pretty light runner, but I’ve been lucky so far to be in the other 2 of 10. I’d love to keep running for a long time, and although I’d heard about barefoot running a lot, I’d largely dismissed it … Read more →

When I started sleeping polyphasically 10 days ago, I didn’t think I’d last beyond 4 days. I love to sleep and have a propensity to hit the snooze button a few times per morning wake-up. But now I’ve gotten up by 6am for the past 9 of 10 days, something I’ve probably never done in … Read more →

We don’t actually need 8 hours of sleep per night, say polyphasic sleepers. I stumbled on Dustin Curtis’ Sleep article, where he introduces the concept of polyphasic sleep and why you might want to try it. Read the article if this sounds weird to you. The immediate appeal is more hours in the day. The … Read more →