A Physical Education: the photo album
What internet advice is doing to our brains; what people with ear gauges' ears look like now; challenging Linda McMahon to a cage match. This is Link Letter 163!
'Help!: My winter bulk worked'
On mean clothes, and cutting without tracking.
on loving the questions, and the radical act of unfolding🧺
Plus: "I was not good at sports because I would not do sports"; one man's "before" and "after" broke the internet; LAST CHANCE TO PRE-ORDER A PHYSICAL EDUCATION! This is Link Letter 160!
'The Zen of Sports' in The Artist's Way
That's right: The Artist's Way endorses a little physical activity. Plus: the 'cereal mullet'; a citizen's guide to resistance; consider a second MMR shot. This is Link Letter 157.
'Help! I started to lift, gained ten pounds, and it's making me spiral tbh'
'How can I learn to be content in my body being stronger and healthier, but not as small as I'd like it to be/have been conditioned to want it to be?'
Offline edition: On resisting the optimization impulse
Choosing the beach path; why nothing you buy feels good anymore; time to get heroic. This is Link Letter 152!
How to break out of wanting a 'ballerina body' (or any other 'body')
Making intrinsic goals, nuking algorithms, and adding feelings and sensations to the Feelings and Sensations Emporium.
What is so wrong with wanting a 'ballerina body'?
If you're going to be trying to get a ballerina body, I'd rather you do it in the house. Plus: Wim Hof is a monster, allegedly; the "gender exercise gap"'; the joy of foraging. This is Link Letter 146!
What was Anne Hathaway going to say about her hips??
The many barriers that exist in talking about bodies. Plus: A woman carrying a damn clothes dryer out of the metro; I have to hand it to Copenhagen planks; a very good non-alcoholic wine. This is Link Letter 131!