Author: Steve Kamb

August 25, 2025

I Got to Say Goodbye: Practical Musings on Mortality

On Friday August 15th, my grandma passed away peacefully in her sleep at the age of 95. I had driven to Massachusetts a few days earlier, and my father and…
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August 10, 2025

Keep Changing, You Just Get More Who You Really Are

“Well, it’s easy. I just threw away all the parts that weren’t ‘Steve.’” I had been sitting with my friend Josh Kaufman in Colorado. I was struggling to make progress…
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August 4, 2025

Be Careful of the Past You Never Knew (Nostalgia vs. Anemoia)

Ever looked at a photo from a bygone era and wondered what it would be like to live in that moment? Congratulations, you experienced something called “anemoia.” It’s kind of…
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July 21, 2025

How to Define “Success” (for Insecure Overachievers)

My name is Steve, and I’m a recovering “insecure overachiever.” Now, you might be thinking “Steve you ragamuffin, what does that even mean?” Here’s how the BBC describes it: ⁠”Decades…
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July 8, 2025

Appreciation of the Unknown

The last few years have been…interesting. Since 2009, I’ve shared quite a bit of my life on the internet. Not just fitness content, but also my (mis)adventures, ups and downs,…
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July 1, 2025

Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Do You Even Like Juice?

I’ve been on quite the “amazing human” documentary kick lately. Documentaries about humans doing incredible things (or incredibly hubristic things) worthy of a documentary… That I have absolutely NO DESIRE…
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June 23, 2025

Stuck in a Rut? Do the Opposite

I’m currently writing this newsletter from a house on a lake in Fort Collins, Colorado. (You won’t read it for another week, but let’s just time travel back to last…
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June 9, 2025

The Lindy Effect: How to Avoid Hype and Get Results that Work

Are you familiar with the “Lindy Effect?” The Lindy Effect, coined by Albert Goldman in 1965, was named after Lindy’s Deli in New York City. Diner patrons noticed that shows…
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June 1, 2025

Real Talk: How Do You Talk to Yourself?

“Oh crap, that’s me too!” This weekend I was on a road trip, listening to “Watch Out For Fireballs,” a gamesclub podcast hosted by Kaye and Gary (it’s like a…
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May 27, 2025

Via Negativa: Addition by Subtraction

In a recent newsletter, I talked about how life has become “unbundled” (split into individual parts like cable TV becoming a dozen streaming services). We now have separated work, exercise,…
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