Microposts

🇨🇦 Regardless of if any of the proposals are adopted (though I think several should be carefully considered), I’m glad to see Build Canada is offering bold ideas. We need more of this, especially these days

🔗 The Cult of the Bully

It may seem priggish to say it, given the current “vibe shift,” but we really can’t give up on personal integrity just yet. The day we celebrate our children for their selfishness and cruelty will be the point of no return.

I can’t believe that I’m about to type this sentence: Now that America is threatening Canada with economic ruin and potential annexation as the 51st state, I think it is very important for Canadians to stay well informed. To that end, I recommend two great sources: Paul Wells and The Line. Both are high quality, independent journalism with important voices in the True North, Strong and Free 🇨🇦

🔗 What Aging Can Teach Us About Sustainable Success

With that in mind, here are a few lessons I’ve learned as an aging athlete who can still run pretty fast, but is having a lot of doing it.

  1. Stop short. Almost always.

There’s an old adage in running that you should have one more rep in the tank. It’s also called the no hands on your knees rule. Both get a simple point, the risk of pushing to get that final repeat is seldom worth it. The benefit is small, if it even exists.

I’m tempted to write this on my shoes. Good advice that I followed this morning: the workout called for 5–8 reps and I stopped after 5 good ones.

🖖 Outline of a short story, starring a Star Trek fan:

  1. New episode of Vulcan Hello podcast arrives
  2. Realizes there’s a new movie: Section 31!?
  3. Stops listening to avoid spoilers
  4. Starts watching Section 31
  5. 20 minutes in thinks: “uh oh, is this the only Star Trek movie I’m not going to finish?”
  6. Goes back to podcast. Is convinced to finish Section 31, eventually
  7. Has at least five other good Star Trek movies to rewatch first