I founded Nerd Fitness way back in 2009. Wherever you are coming from, I’m glad you are here. Every week, I send out a short email that’s guaranteed to make you live a tiny bit better, think a little deeper, and overcome the obstacles that get in the way.
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I founded Nerd Fitness way back in 2009. Wherever you are coming from, I’m glad you are here. Every week, I send out a short email that’s guaranteed to make you live a tiny bit better, think a little deeper, and overcome the obstacles that get in the way.
To view this email as a webpage, click here In 2009, I was an enthusiastic, optimistic, and slightly (very) naive nerd who started NerdFitness.com to help other nerds level up their lives and live a tiny bit better. Since then, I've done my best to build an identity as a lifelong learner who isn't tied to a specific ideology or philosophy. This meant I got plenty of things right, and I also managed to get plenty of things wrong. Certain views I held in the past were factually incorrect. While...
To view this email as a webpage, click here I keep track of all the games, books, shows, and movies I experience. (It’s a long list. I’m a bookworm-cinephile-gamer.) And I don’t just watch a show, I find three podcasts analyzing it too. I don’t just play a video game, I watch YouTube deep dives into its lore and development. I was looking back over my last few months of content, and I found a pattern: I recently rewatched Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation. I started rereading Shogun and...
To view this email as a webpage, click here Are you familiar with Jerry Seinfeld’s “Don’t Break the Chain” Rule? This is a popular habit-building strategy that I’ve successfully used in the past. The idea is built around the simple phrase: “don’t break the chain”: Here's how one comedian recalled his interaction with Seinfeld, who shared his advice for the craft of joke writing: “He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next...