I suspect they actually meant Terry Pratchett, but David Whyte is certainly a contender. I read The Three Marriages expecting it to be awful because of the title, but came away with an unquenchable thirst for all his material.
(And I read the book after hearing him recite his poem, The Faces At Braga, which is the only piece of poetry that has ever moved me, a very level-headed and unemotional man despite my writing, to tears.)
I did mean Terry Prachett, was probably overly coy about it, but I definitely need check out David Whyte! I had to google the "gibberish" quote and was very pleasantly surprised! For those curious it is Discworld Dwarvish for:
i keep Asian honeybees on Lantau Island / Hong Kong - fully agree with you, there is so much more to it the more time one spends with bees. you will like this book a lot [Song of Increase]: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/28862364
+1 for gmb.io - it's the only program(s) that i ever paid for - they are that clever. (i am athletic, walk my dog daily, have access to crossfit gyms etc). gmb.io "fills the gaps" of daily movement deficits and is for everyone.
I appreciate the suggestion of gmb.io from you and the parent. I had something more traditional in mind when I asked for suggestions (pushups, situps, squats, etc.) - but the intro on their website is intriguing enough that I think I will at least give the free session a try.
How do you track your reps and weight per exercise? My trainer wants me to use paper. There are too many apps for this, and most of them are adware or junk. A glorified spreadsheet is what I’m looking for (mobile).
An app called Fitnotes, which I've used for years, is a glorified spreadsheet in my opinion.
Also contrary to another poster who insists on not tracking your lifts, I find it essential both for making progress and maintaining interest, its somewhat comparable to levelling an RPG character. At the very least its useful for remembering what you've done recently so you know what to do next.
+1 for fitnotes, probably the best app out there for my needs. Very flexible, gets out of the way, and has some basic analytics like plotting graphs and calculating one rep max values (which I never use). The graphs I find very useful to see if how I'm trending over many months.
I only know it on Android, looking at the iOS App Store it seems like they both hijacked the name from Android, yet that FitNotes 2 is marketed as a clone of the Android app. The other FitNotes in iOS looks totally different in function/UI
if you start tracking reps and weight, i guarantee you will loose interest fast. while tracking might certainly be useful for muscle building, gmb.io has a different approach and focuses on movements that are safe and help you in real life (mobilise wrist / shoulders, prevent back pain improve posture etc). A lot can be done without fancy equipment.
But when I go to the gym once per week, and do 10 different exercises with weights or machines, I want to know what weight I used last time so I can start there (or just above it) again. Maybe you have the memory of an elephant.
Or Maybe you don’t care if you spend 2 minutes at every machine first figuring out what weight feels like just enough, not too much or too little, before doing 3 sets? Enjoy that. But I don’t want to do that. Every. Single. Time i go to the gym. And there’s no way to see my progress?
Not the parent, but I don’t think they are arguing against tracking weights when weight lifting so much as they are arguing against “traditional” weight lifting routines in general.
I have not tried gmb.io, but looks like progression in that program involves moving onto more difficult movements rather than increasing weight.
I use Stacked. But only because I enjoyed books & content written by the creator. It's not as easy to adjust as other apps, but it's totally free and I think it's visually pleasing.
1. The liar: The insidious lie fulfills this criterion, because the liar wants to deceive and is sure of success.
2. The bullshitter: thinks "What I'm saying could be wrong? So what?"
3. The idiot: thinks, however, "What I say could also be wrong? It'll be true!" The idiot just talks like that, or he heard something and passed it on unchecked.
In digital media, bullshitters and idiots - as opposed to liars - are both perpetrators and victims.
All three (liars, bullshitters, idiots) sometimes accidentally tell the truth. But because it is always easier to miss the truth than to meet it, in most cases they increase bullshit of all kinds and thus act at the expense of the truth.
Bullshit only spreads on the internet if many people forward it.
If we were all attentive, critical and informed, then this phenomenon would not exist.
source(book): [ Philipp Hübl ] "Bullshit-Resistenz", 2018
+1 for Exhalation by Ted Chiang.
And also: "Sum - Forty Tales from the afterlives" by David Eagleman. A small book that makes you think very very deeply.
Reminds me several times a day of the impermanence of life and of death, with a thoughtful quote.
It is a buddhist thing. It somehow makes your everyday world a little easier.
The last quote of the app i took a screenshot of was:
"Having no destination, i am never lost." [Ikkyū]
I love Taleb, but given that the majority of his wealth was made from derivatives markets, I'm not entirely sure if his moral pontificating is always the best or most accurate commentary available to quote.
