Last year, Mike (my identical twin brother) and I, along with 21 other pairs of identical twins participated in a medical study through the Stanford School of Medicine comparing vegan and omnivore diets. Last month, the first study results were published, and in just a few days, the Netflix documentary series about the study, You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, premieres.
Read MoreContrary to the popular adage, age isn’t “just a number”. Age isn’t just A number. Age is THE number. Quite literally, it might be the most important number of a person’s life. I am 52. If I walked up to you and, absent any context, proclaimed, “Hi, I’m Matt and I’m 52.” There would no doubt to what I was referring. I only get to live this one life, I was born once and I will die once… and aside from quality, age is the scoreboard. We only get to live on this earth for so long, and the goal for most is to have that number be as high as possible.
Read MoreThe older I get the more I understand how deep many of the habits of my life are engrained. I quit chewing tobacco a little over a decade ago, much to the satisfaction of my wife, after coming to the realization that it was a habit that negatively impacted my life more than in just the most obvious health related ways. Ever since then, I have worked to be aware of all my habits. The bad ones and the good ones.
I don’t claim to be the first person to listen to a podcast, but shortly after Apple started supporting them in iTunes (who remembers iTunes???) I was hooked. I immediately thought of the potential to have talk radio (a la NPR) on demand. And the medium went on to change my life in so many profound ways. But those are stories for another post.
Read MoreI've been posting my thoughts on the internet for 25 years. That’s nearly half my life. The internet was new to us, and we had to go to Radio Shack to buy a very long telephone extension chord to go from our house to the little in-laws quarters in our backyard where we put the computer.
Read MoreI have never seen an episode of Friends. Ever.
Well, actually one time, in very early 2018, I was at our daughter’s house, and she had Friends on in the background… but I swear I never watched it. I was just aware that it was on.
For some strange reason, I’ve worn the “never watched Friends” badge with pride, as if I deserved some stupid medal for it.
Read MoreFile this under “things I heard on a podcast a long time ago and can’t get it out of my head”. Nostalgia was once thought of as a disease. After hearing the episode of Hidden Brain on this topic, I couldn’t stop thinking of the idea of nostalgia as an illness.
Read MoreSince the early days of podcasting, I’ve been hooked on the medium. And I’ve always wanted to write a post about what I was listening to. I love getting recommendations for other shows to listen to, but I really wanted to have a list for me to be able to look back on.
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