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An aside about things like Joe Rogan.There’s some pop culture blowup going on right now with
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An aside about things like Joe Rogan.Thereâs some pop culture blowup going on right now with criticis [Coach Tony]( Coach Tony [@tonystubblebine]( An aside about things like Joe Rogan.
Thereâs some pop culture blowup going on right now with criticism of some of Joe Roganâs guests. If you know you know, but if you donât itâs not worth looking up. I just want to give an aside. What if you looked at situations like this through the lens of The Spider-Man rule*, âWith great power comes great responsibility.â
Thatâs a moral framework that Iâd like to see applied more often. A person with a massive audience has a responsibility to put more work into vetting and fact-checking than you or I do when we are spouting off at the bar (or wherever it is that you like to spout off).
Technically, this quote belongs to Spider-Manâs uncle, Ben Parker. Whatâs a practical solution to bringing your phone to bed?
I was looking through an old sleep assessment and found that 449 out of 648 respondents take their phones to bed. Thatâs 69% of an overall very health and productivity savvy crowd.Â
A phone is a harm to sleep both as a social media-induced procrastination from closing your eyes and also as research on blue light indicates it makes it harder for you to fall asleep. The theoretical optimal strategy is obvious: never allow your phone into your bedroom. But given that so many of you will not choose this optimal strategy, what is the second-best strategy? Conflicting research on blue light.
Itâs a classic truism of digging through academic research that for every study saying one thing, youâll find another study claiming the opposite. So hereâs a study claiming that blue light isnât as disruptive to sleep as previously thought:
But in December [2019], a group of researchers at the University of Manchester in the U.K. published[a paper]( in Current Biology challenging that notion. After exposing mice to lights that were different in hue but equal brightness and assessing their subsequent activity, the researchers concluded that yellow light actually seems to disturb sleep more than blue. Warm-toned light, they hypothesized, could trick the body into thinking itâs daytime, while cooler blue light more closely mimics twilight. [[source](]
This is a perfect case of when and why you should trust your own results. Iâm sure that the balance of academic studies still leans âblue light is bad for sleepâ but also sorting through those papers doesnât matter much when two things are likely: A) you can run this test on yourself and B) itâs most likely that your phone is probably a blatant thief of time you meant to be asleep. ___ A poem about relationships.
Iâm curious how you all take this poem and if you have a partner, how you take it together.Â
Wish
My trick is to pretend
To be a person you might want
To know
In the initial stages
& then to fail
At being that
In a million small meticulous ways
Until our century
Finally passes
[From Tom Snarskyâs Light-Up Swan](
I got that poem from [@poetryisnotaluxury]( on Instagram. The comment thread there is very much along the lines of âI dated that guy.â
But I recognized myself and was comfortable with that. Itâs an important part of the story of life and relationships that we will fail to be perfect. What the poem leaves out is that these failures donât prevent huge successes and great relationships. (Sarah and I were able to read this poem together, recognize the relation to our shared experience, and still come out with gratitude for each other). ___ Tips? I do appreciate hearing from you about your own hard-won lessons, great articles to read, interesting research, new tools, and even great TikToks. If you have something to share, please send it my way. Donât miss out on the other issues by Coach Tony [Become a member for $5 per month]( Did you enjoy this issue? [Yes]( [No]( [Coach Tony](
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