The Shortgevity Story
Stress Is Not Always the Enemy
Hormesis explains why a cold plunge makes you stronger. It stops explaining anything once the stressor is a person, a risk, or a life. A case for the kind of...
Stress Is Not Always the Enemy
Hormesis explains why a cold plunge makes you stronger. It stops explaining anything once the stressor is a person, a risk, or a life. A case for the kind of...
A Short Essay on Wine
Wine was never built to optimize a biomarker. A short essay on vintage, terroir, and why a glass that changes every year is doing something no supplement can.
A Short Essay on Wine
Wine was never built to optimize a biomarker. A short essay on vintage, terroir, and why a glass that changes every year is doing something no supplement can.
Anti-Longevity: What It Is and Isn't
Anti-longevity is not a death wish. It's a different allocation of attention: toward the present rather than toward future years.
Anti-Longevity: What It Is and Isn't
Anti-longevity is not a death wish. It's a different allocation of attention: toward the present rather than toward future years.
Drinking: A Defense (Sort Of)
An honest essay about what a drink at the right table with the right people actually does, and what the sober curious movement, in its most absolutist form, loses in...
Drinking: A Defense (Sort Of)
An honest essay about what a drink at the right table with the right people actually does, and what the sober curious movement, in its most absolutist form, loses in...
Why Boredom Is Cognitively Valuable (And You're...
The default mode network — active during boredom and idle time — is associated with creativity, self-awareness, and memory consolidation. Eliminating idle time is neurologically counterproductive.
Why Boredom Is Cognitively Valuable (And You're...
The default mode network — active during boredom and idle time — is associated with creativity, self-awareness, and memory consolidation. Eliminating idle time is neurologically counterproductive.
The Last Cigarette Scene in Cinema
Why the cigarette scene — the most ritually condemned act in contemporary wellness culture — is cinematically the most alive moment in dozens of films. A look at what the...
The Last Cigarette Scene in Cinema
Why the cigarette scene — the most ritually condemned act in contemporary wellness culture — is cinematically the most alive moment in dozens of films. A look at what the...