Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Culture & Ideas takes a step back to look at the big picture. These posts examine the patterns, trends, and technology that shape modern life. They explore how over-consumption can detract from your quality of life and how how awareness and thoughtful choices can improve your health, free your time, and deepen satisfaction.
A surge in sports betting addictions in the U.S. has been entirely predictable. Once the Supreme Court legalized gambling in 2018, it was only a matter of time before people everywhere would be placing bets […]
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I didn’t give the forecast much thought when it called for some scattered thunderstorms one recent Saturday afternoon. That’s what the forecast looks like in Wisconsin for much of the summer. I certainly wasn’t thinking
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Where can you spend nearly one hour of your time with a large group of people and have nobody in the room check their phone? Not a gym. Not a grocery store. Certainly not a
One Public Space Where Phones Are Still Taboo Read More »
One of the first things I learned from Dr. Anna Lembke’s book, “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence,” is that our nation’s addiction problems are largely the result of having too much
Dr. Anna Lembke Interview: Insights from ‘Dopamine Nation’ Read More »
Organized sports at the youth level has been the target of all sorts of criticisms in recent years, and for good reasons. Whether it’s because they’re unaffordable for many families or they put too much
Are Organized Sports Making Us More Sedentary? A Counterintuitive Case Read More »
If that device in your pocket is a dumb phone, you may wonder if carrying it makes you a “Luddite.” Being a Luddite is not a compliment, of course. It suggests you’re “behind the times.” Having
Lessons from the Luddites: How to Manage Digital Technology Read More »
Even at famous historical sites, you’ll find people losing themselves in their devices. As someone who uses a dumb phone full time, I’m amazed (and a bit saddened) by the extent to which people cling
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Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of “The Nirvana Effect,” a new science fiction novel by Brian Pinkerton, is just how uncomfortably close it comes to describing our world today. In the not-too-distant future, people still
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For many of us, frugality doesn’t just happen. It requires vigilance in the face of constant messages encouraging us to embrace debt and overconsumption. In the United States especially, it’s easy to be led astray.
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The first time I saw a television commercial for sports betting I was watching a Green Bay Packers game with our two kids, both in elementary school. I was downright disgusted. I couldn’t believe watching
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