In case you missed my email from a couple of weeks ago, Steve asked me to write some more focused fitness and nutrition content for the Rebellion. And since then, I received a TON of emails from people circling around the same thing: a lack of belief they can actually make change work this time!…

If you’re looking to kickstart your fitness journey or break through a plateau, the good news is that you don’t need years to see results. With the right approach, you can boost your fitness quickly—sometimes in as little as a few weeks. The fastest way to boost fitness is not necessarily about doing more. The…

I’ve dealt with back pain for over 20 years. It started back in high school—warming up for a soccer match, everything felt fine… and then *SNAP*, my back seized up. I had no idea what had happened. All I knew was: it hurt, I could barely move, and I was scared. That moment started a…

We all know that happiness is an important goal in life.  Many even view it as the main goal, and this is worth examining.   Most people aren’t in the habit of asking “how important is happiness to me?”, but if pressed, almost all of us would list it as one of our top priorities….

In the 1980’s, the Spetsnaz– Russian special forces– developed a revolutionary new resistance training method that flew in the face of decades of strength training dogma. Yes, I know “Russian special forces” doesn’t exactly carry the gravitas that it did two years ago.  Just bear with me.   There are various styles of weight lifting,…

Out of all the systematic health inequalities people face in our society, one of the least-acknowledged is that health care providers routinely under-estimate and under-appreciate women’s pain.   Yes, of course patients tell doctors how much pain they’re experiencing.  But even so, doctors have to make a judgement as to how expressive the patient is…

What does intelligence mean to you? Does it mean knowing a lot of things?  Being able to figure things out quickly?  Being great at math?   Intelligence isn’t really any of those things.  It’s not about what you know or how fast you think– it’s about how you think, and how effectively you learn.  …

If you’ve been following AI news, you probably saw thew news about this recent MIT study which showed that ChatGPT– and presumably other tools like it– disproportionately helps the least productive workers, evening out the differences between the best and worst workers. I’ve already seen a few hot takes predicting that this will lead to…

I asked ChatGPT to use DALL-E to generate a header image for this article, based on a summary of the article. A for effort, C for execution. A while back I was brainstorming ways to use AI tools like GPT for marketing purposes. It turns out that a lot of the obvious ideas around lead…

Not pictured: Enough booze to kill a herd of elephants. I’m working on some serious articles but I don’t feel up to writing a serious article tonight. I’ve also been reading a ton of stuff about history lately and I feel like sharing it, so here are some cool history facts that I’m writing down…