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Geoff Girvitz
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Father, founder, physical culturist I explore health through writing, behaviour design, and community-building newsletter.dadstrength.com
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Sep 22
Personal site is up – along with an archive of my published writing – and a pretty good URL, if I do say so myself.

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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · 11d
@avansi.bsky.social paints a picture of what food affordability and quality could look like through publicly owned grocery stores.
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · 13d
If I say "Rasputin dancing to Bony M" or "Saturday Night Fever from Measles," you get the idea. Your first mental pass is as good or better than an AI-generated video. Better, probably. And it won't burn as much electricity as a microwave running for an hour.

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OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore
As AI shifts from text to video, its appetite for power and water soars, presenting a climate-policy issue.
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · 14d
Would society pas the marshmallow test?

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The Price of Tomorrow | Geoff Mann
The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · 20d
If cigarettes have to display health warnings, car commercials could, at a minimum, show people driving through congestion and/or making it impossible for kids to bike to school.
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · 21d
Today on Dad Strength

A band pull-apart tip

The burden of carrying things silently

High protein diets vs strength training for muscle

A book, a quote, and a dad joke

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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · 28d
Whenever the current U.S. administration makes a statement about public health, my questions aren’t about where they got their science from (LOL) – but how they benefit.

From today's edition:
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We're all trying to find the guy who did this
Plus: Find your master exercise
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Sep 22
Personal site is up – along with an archive of my published writing – and a pretty good URL, if I do say so myself.

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Geoff Girvitz - geoff.site
Writing and projects by Geoff Girvitz
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Sep 18
Nepal's Gen-Z revolution was a short, wild ride that ended up with the world's first democratic election taking place on Discord. I get into it in today's newsletter.

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The Gen Z revolution
Plus: How to maintain power as you age
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Sep 15
Would you settle for a classical arrangement of The Boys are Back In Town?
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Sep 14
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Sep 14
The defining element of a civilization is how it encodes wisdom and values into long-term memory. This wisdom lives as institutions, laws, and public works — the structural encoding of more wisdom than anyone can accumulate within a single lifetime.

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Our Persistence of Memory
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Sep 13
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Doug Ford VS Toronto Bike Lanes: The True Story - On the Trail with Isaac Peltz and William Wilson
YouTube video by Isaac Peltz
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Sep 11
"Chronically angry people can turn high blood pressure into a contagious disease."

In today's edition: sleep, school, and agility.

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Sleep science
Today on Dad Strength: Sleep science; What is school; The agility map is not the territory; A book, a quote, a dad joke Exercise, mindset, parenting.
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Sep 9
@dadstrength.bsky.social The em in em-dash stands for "emotional support"
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Sep 8
You're a good friend.
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Aug 29
I don't know how many science skeptics are out there but if it only takes one issue (vaccines, climate change) to count, it might be close to 40% of North Americans. Feel free to check me on this.

But it would be good for them to know that many scientists want to/are trying to repair this.
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Aug 29
“Moving from a less walkable (25th percentile) city to a more walkable city (75th percentile) increased walking by 1,100 daily steps, on average. These changes hold across different genders, ages and body mass index values…”

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Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature
By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Jul 30
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Jul 14
That's an incredible volume of beige.
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Jul 9
Haters will say it's AI
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Jul 7
Suggesting updating "red herring" to "red dye #3"
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Jun 26
Hot off the presses

Two exercises for power, the Screen-Time Continuum, and our new informational environment

Plus some reads, a quote, and a dad joke

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Power, Screentime, and the New Informational Environment
Plus: A Newtonian joke
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Jun 11
The biggest bottlenecks I saw in Amsterdam were bikes and they resolved almost immediately. We need to stop pretending as if we don’t know what the answers look like.
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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Jun 10
I am delighted to share this clip from The Nature of Things' "Dad Bods" episode featuring Dad Strength.

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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Jun 10
If you're the kind of strength nerd who will wax eloquent about the mTOR pathway BUT don't know the story of its discovery, then strap in for one of my all-time favourites:

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The Dirty Drug and the Ice Cream Tub
This episode, a tale of a wonder drug that will make you wonder about way more than just drugs.
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