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Experimenting With Substack
Hey folks, I’m experimenting with moving my writing to Substack for a bit, you can find me over there at miloandthecalf.substack.com There you’ll find more book reviews and essays as well as a weekly round up of what I’ve been reading, listening to and watching. I expect I’ll return to this website at some point, but wanted to try my hand at the newsletter format. Hope you check it out! -Sean
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In Praise of the Treadmill (Especially for the Very Out of Shape Like Me)
Ahh the dreadmill, the subject of ridicule and scorn across the running community, how I love you. Let me count the ways. You’re no excuses easy. I am the very busy father of two young kids and anything that creates friction between me and a workout is a potential barrier. In my circumstances, with a treadmill available in the basement gym of my apartment building, it is by far the easiest way…
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The Attia Rule – Some Tests of Strength for Longevity
Awhile back longevity expert Peter Attia, and my personal go-to for all things health and wellness, was on the Huberman podcast and he said something along the lines of “I wish it was a rule that you could not talk about the nuances of your diet and supplementation routine until you can do these exercises”, and then he named a number of basic tests of physical fitness. In the back and forth with…
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I Got Into the 2023 New York City Marathon.
Ok. It came at midday yesterday, the confirmation that I am in for the 2023 New York City Marathon. Honestly, I’d forgotten it was even a possibility. But here we are, and I have a decision to make. I’m (almost!) 48 years old. I have two young kids, a demanding job, a wife with an even more demanding job, and I am probably as out of shape as I have ever been in my life. Is now the best time to…
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Your Occasional Stoic (3.5) If to your benefit as a rational being, adopt it; if to your benefit as an animal, reject it.
But if there is nothing better than the very god that is seated in you, which has brought all your own impulses under its control, which scrutinizes your thoughts, which has withdrawn itself, as Socrates used to say, from all inducements of the senses, which has subordinated itself to the gods and takes care for men – if you find all else by comparison with this small and paltry, then give no…
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Your Occasional Stoic (3.4) A Radical Empathy
3.4 He remembers the kinship of all rational beings, and that caring for all men is in accordance with man’s nature. Nevertheless, he should not hold to the opinions of all, but only of those who live their lives in agreement with nature. He will constantly remind himself what sort of people they are who do not lead such lives – what they are like both at home and abroad, by night and by day,…
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Your Occasional Stoic (3.3) Unsullied by Pleasures; Unscathed by Pain
3.3 A man such as this [meaning a man focused on that which he can control], if he does not postpone his attempt to place himself among the best, is in some way, a priest and minister of the gods. He can respond to the divinity within him rendering him a man unsullied by pleasures, unscathed by any pain, untouched by any wrong, unconscious of any wickedness; a wrestler for the greatest prize of…
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How I'm Reading in 2023 and Why It's Different
For as long as I can remember, my reading habits have had three main pillars – I choose what I am going to read next randomly, I read one book at a time, and I finish everything I start. This year, I am going to experiment with doing things a bit differently. Here’s how. From Buckshot to Targeted When I do my year-end round up I always refer to my reading as a “buckshot affair” and for as long…
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2022 My Year In Books
Another year, another 52 books. I spent nearly half of 2022 living in other people’s homes, which was weird and kind of unsettling, but I also read some absolute bangers. If you actually read this whole thing, you’ll probably notice some themes. More books about nature, less poetry, more trashy fiction, less literary fiction. As always kinda all over the place. I’ve got plans to do things a bit…
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D'Var Torah for the first day of Rosh Hashanah
D’Var Torah for the first day of Rosh Hashanah
I was lucky enough to give a drash on the first day of Rosh Hashanah this year at the always amazing altshul. Here it is. As those of you who know me know, and those of you who don’t can probably guess from my name, I was not raised Jewish. I come to all of this later in life. So if I make some absolutely obvious errors up here I hope you’ll forgive me and give me a gentle correction after…
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2021: My Year In Books
2021: My Year In Books
2021, what a mess, right? We had our good days and our bad days, and somehow or other we got through. I was luckier than many, having the privilege to spend alot of time outside, and (occasionally) lounge with a book. As always, books were where I found solace. As I’ve said before, my reading is a buckshot affair – I follow my interests wherever they go, just trying to make sure I average a…
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2020: My Year In Books
2020: My Year In Books
What a year, friends, what a year. At the start of the year I had big plans both intellectually and physically, but in the end, I ended up holding on and finishing, even if just barely, 52 books. Here they are, with some of the best highlighted. Best Fiction Book Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison Over the last two years I’ve been working my way through Morrison’s work and for the second year in a…
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Kinzer's Poisoner in Chief
Kinzer’s Poisoner in Chief
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind ControlStephen Kinzer Undoubtably the strangest, most disturbing, book I read this year. The story of Sydney Gottlieb and the early years of the CIA is almost too cruel, to horrible to really comprehend. Yes, I knew about MK Ultra (where the CIA drugged unsuspecting people with LSD) and I knew about the CIAs involvement in the…
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Brakeley's Skiing with Henry Knox
Brakeley’s Skiing with Henry Knox
Skiing with Henry Knox: A Personal Journey Along Vermont’s Catamount TrailSam Brakeley I have a real soft spot for books like this. Young dude decided to take on doing the Catamount Trail, (a cross country ski route that runs the length of Vermont) in a single push. Ostensibly he’s doing this to give himself time to make a major life decision, but it’s also just a cool adventure. He weaves the…
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Eyre's Death in Mud Lick
Eyre’s Death in Mud Lick
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic Eric Eyre The worst book I read this year. A full of himself reporter takes the destruction wrought on West Virginia by big pharma and attempts to turn it into a hero story about himself. In almost every case it’s a bad idea for a reporter to put himself in the middle of a story, which is…
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Cooper's We Keep the Dead Close
Cooper’s We Keep the Dead Close
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of SilenceBecky Cooper True crime for fancy folks. An investigation into the murder of a student at Harvard in the 1960s that turns into an investigation into the way power works. The way Harvard, men, and the state all use power against those who would attack it. Very well crafted and written. I flew through it. It’s rare a book is…
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Calle's True Stories
Calle’s True Stories
True StoriesSophie Calle Been sitting on my shelves for years and years. So happy I finally took down this little book of aphorisms and photos (both original and found) by the wonderfully bizarre performance artist / writer Sophie Calle. I have followed Calle’s work for decades. It has often focused on the contradictions of desire, obsession and misogyny, all of which hits different, and more…
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