life

The quiet flatness — something I keep noticing in men who used to love their hobbies

A pattern I keep seeing in regular guys in their thirties and forties: the hobbies they used to love have gone silent. Here's what I think is actually going on.

At some point, gaming to relax became something I had to learn

Gaming to relax sounds automatic. It isn't — and it took me embarrassingly long to figure out why I kept standing up feeling worse than before.

The Steam Deck as a dad purchase, not a gamer purchase

Parenting didn't kill gaming — it made the old way structurally impossible. The Steam Deck didn't fix the schedule. It fixed the structure.

The accidental reader

I was never a bookworm — too much energy, not enough stillness. Then two kids arrived, gaming got complicated, and my wife's bookshelves happened to be right there.

I did a 3-day water fast. My body had thoughts.

A dad with chronic migraines seizes a rare prepared window to try a 72-hour water fast and sees what his body actually does when left to its own devices.

Life

The quiet flatness — something I keep noticing in men who used to love their hobbies

At some point, gaming to relax became something I had to learn

The Steam Deck as a dad purchase, not a gamer purchase

The accidental reader

I did a 3-day water fast. My body had thoughts.