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I wrote this article on convenience a while back, as well as this thing on life optimization. That pull-quote image is from a February 2018 (the “before times”) New York Times article from Tim Wu called “The Tyranny of Convenience.” Now that I’ve laid out some of those resources, let’s get into some stories.
I write this newsletter for a men’s workout group called F3 Nation. Here’s an example of one. The real goal of these emails is to get new guys to workout in the morning. However, the information contained in the emails is generally known to the existing group of people who work out. You need to skate the line between “A” and “B,” right? I did it a little bit with humor, i.e. cracking jokes from workouts, stuff about wives/kids, etc. Eventually, there’s a small privileged crew who went to the leader of that world and complained (note: they didn’t come to me directly, no). Privilege and convenience danced with fragility. This is, commonly, how life unfurls.
Years ago, on Father’s Day, I was at a table where all the guys were clustered towards one end and all the women clustered towards another. Most of the people there had newborns at the time. Whenever a mom with a male newborn would go to the dad and say “Hey, could you take Charlie here to the bathroom?”, the dad would say “No, you do it. It’s MY day.” I was 38 at the time (41 now), triggered with no…
