Last Week's Highlights
Last week's highlights on the site, from posts, to podcasts, to new features.
Podcast episode
- We had our first "gear talk" podcast episode in some time, updating our "simple" views on everything from shoes, to sunglasses, to socks, and more. You can find it here. As usual, premium subscribers get a full, unabridged episode plus a complete transcript.
Posts
- People talk a big game when it comes to exercise, but it doesn't translate into action at any higher level than chance. We wrote about it, focusing on a new paper. Check it here.
- Paper Watch: Low GLP-1 Adherence, LDL-C, 70 as the 60, CO2 and Cognition. Check it here.
What We're Reading, Watching, Listening To, etc.
Podcasts
Paul listened to Rich Roll in conversation with elite performance coach Dr. David Spindler, who helped Tour de France sprinter Mark Cavendish get back to being a winner. It's wildly uneven, and nearly lost Paul when it descended to quoting banal Harvard Business Review articles on trust, but it has some good ideas and moments.
Reading
Howard is reading David Brooks' 2019 book The Second Mountain on living a moral life. Brooks' well-reviewed book is about how to live for a cause larger than yourself.
Paul is re-reading Charles Portis's classic book True Grit, which is not what you expected if you have only seen the movie starring John Wayne. Portis is a special writer, and this is likely his best book.
As a secondary suggestion, Paul suggests the NY Times interview with sociologist Robert Putnam, author of the classic Bowling Alone, on the rise of loneliness and lack of connection, and how he predicted it, and why it didn't matter because he couldn't convince anyone to care.
Music
Paul has listened to Royel Otis's recent cover of The Cranberries' Linger too many times this week. It is fresh, aching, and surprising. His is the best kind of cover: One that effortlessly owns and transforms the original.
Howard went to see Counting Crows this weekend. Adam Duritz is powerful in person.
Streaming
Paul is glad he doesn't have a bandwidth cap on his broadband connection, because he has been streaming the Tour de France live on NBC Peacock pretty much every morning the last ten days. Granted, the sprint stages are mostly background noise, but we are living in a golden age of pro cycling, with two of the most amazing talents in pro cycling—Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard—competing against each other. We are lucky indeed.
Back next week with another edition.
