July 1, 2024

Being healthy is productive

Health and productivity reflections, a touching obituary for a quiet life, and visualizing your life in weeks

Hi friends,

Welcome to my July 1st dispatch! You can sign for these newsletters or browse the archive at https://buttondown.email/manan.

What I thought about this week

I spent some time this week thinking about physical health and productivity.

What I read this week

• Obituary for a Quiet Life. A beautifully written piece celebrating a kind, simple, fierce existence.
• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. I'm about 70 pages in. So far, this book has felt like a more irreverent, gory, realistic Hunger Games. I've enjoyed the book's commentary on the prison-industrial complex. Excited to keep reading.

Other cool things I wanted to share

• https://www.weeksofyour.life. A cool visual medium to reflect on and share details about your life so far. Reminds me of Four Thousand Weeks.
• https://www.plotaroute.com/. Seems like an awesome tool for planning walking routes on trips, or for minimizing walking distance between several locations you want to visit.
• The Double Cross Trail. I've walked the SF Crosstown Trail once before with friends, and it was an absolute blast. I loved walking parts of the city I'd never seen before. This seems like a worthy successor!
• Fun Reddit r/travel thread about surprisingly overrated or underrated travel destinations. Lots of cool gems in here that I didn't know about! Some highlights:
  • Plitvice, Croatia
  • Lombok, Indonesia
  • (Skopelos, Milos, Paros), Greece
• Fun math puzzle! Reply if you're interested in the answer :)