I’m sitting at a Chase Sapphire Lounge at an international airport. All around me are “business people”. How do I know? For starters, they are starring into their Lenovo Thinkbooks. They smile awkwardly every once and awhile to signal their engagement with whomever is on the other side. The outliers in this room? The lucky ones starring into a MacBook instead of a Thinkbook. Literally not a single person in my view is not grinding away. Like most people, these folks are completely tethered to the albatross that is their VPN.
Category: Health
A Thank You To My Father
It’s been months since I last posted. During this time my father was diagnosed with, and succumbed to, lung cancer. While I anticipate my experience may produce future thoughts on the U.S. health care system, today is about my father’s passing.
Freud called one’s father’s death “the most important event, the most poignant loss, of a man’s life.” This has been paraphrased to something like “you are not a real, independent adult until you bury one parent.”
Biometric Data
I’ve long been interested in gaining insights into how certain actions (e.g., what I eat, how I exercise) impact how I feel. And “feel” is a good way to word it because any experimentation is done mostly if not exclusively on feel. The oft dreaded task of waking up early in the morning to hit a workout, after planning and spending time meal prepping, has had benefits for me. Thus, I have a feeling that exercising in the morning gives me lasting energy throughout the day. What I do not have is hard data to back up that claim.
Fear and Everything
As 2020 came to an end, gatherings of close friends and family were either hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic or nonexistent. At that time, although it had been 10 months, I felt I could make the best of it for the remainder of the pandemic. But as March 2021 continues on, and we pass the one year mark, the pandemic is feeling as endless as ever.