NOTES FROM THE FIELD
How to Read the Health401k® Blog
This blog is not organized around tips or trends.
It is organized around how people actually change.
Some posts explore the core ideas that shape Health401k®, how we define health, effort, environment, and long term investment. Others document real world observations from the field, or reflect on moments that clarified what works, what fails, and why.
If you are new here, start with Health401k® Philosophy to understand the framework.
- Field Notes capture patterns we see in practice.
- Reflections explore meaning, tradeoffs, and the human side of change.
- HealthBroker by Health401k™designs and coordinates environments at the individual and organizational level so the right effort is reinforced at the right time and for the
right reasons. - Piggy Bank Advisor® introduces Health401k® ideas early, helping children and families understand health as something you invest in over time.
These are not separate ideas. They are different lenses on the same system.
Shared Book Reading: A High-Return Investment in Your Child’s Health401k®
Piggy Bank Advisor® Books. Pages with pictures. Some with words. Some without. When parents ask me, as a pediatric speech-language pathologist, “What can I do to support my child?”, they’re often expecting an answer involving flashcards, apps, or the latest...
Health Isn’t Universal. That’s the Point.
Contrast is one of the primary ways humans make meaning. We understand ourselves by noticing difference. We clarify what matters by placing it next to what does not. In that sense, contrast is a tool. Often a necessary one. The risk is not contrast itself. The risk is...
Punch Buggy, I Spy, and Polaroids: Health Investments in Disguise
During a recent working session, definitions of health and success unfolded across cultures, geography, and age. One of the most reliable outcomes of these conversations is not consensus, but expansion. A wider lens. A deeper understanding. And a recurring reminder...
A Flute, the Desert, and a Different Way of Seeing: A Spiritual Health Investment
A reflection on presence, culture, and a massive spiritual health investment Some experiences do not ask to be captured.They ask to be entered. Adria and I didn’t go to Monument Valley to see it. We went to be with someone who belongs to it. We spent time with Garry...
Health Investments From the Field: Environmental and Social
As our team travels, our understanding of what “health” means to different people consistently broadens. We are exposed to incredibly meaningful contributions across dimensions. Health401k® exists to help people define health personally, collectively, and...
What a Potato Cannon Taught Me About Health
Frank does not look like a case study you would expect to find in a health article. He does not speak the language of optimization. He is not chasing perfect routines, pristine biomarkers, or externally defined standards of wellness. What he does instead is inhabit...
Evan Marshall and the Quiet Cost of Incomplete Context
Evan Marshall is exceptional. There is no other way to describe him. From a young age, he knew what he wanted to do professionally, built a roadmap to get there, and by his early thirties had met every milestone with force and precision. He is disciplined, discerning,...
The Wildly Unexpected Multi-Dimensional Health Investment of Learning an Instrument
Michael Jerome Kagan and Ryan Travis Woods ahead of the Jacob Collier performance at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. Circa 2009, I sat in on a lecture about brain aging by Professor Mark Moss, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the Chobanian...
HealthBroker by Health401k™: The Tremor We Could Not Fully Resolve
The tremor was escalating, unrelenting, and deeply destabilizing for someone who had never considered herself fragile. Stacey was in her mid-30s. Highly capable. Widely trusted. Someone with a sharp read on people and a deep professional network. When she reached out,...
A Lawyer, a Therapist, and a House: The Transformation of Michelin Jeffries
A Life Under Load Michelin Jeffries had been navigating life untethered since the age of sixteen. A gifted mechanical mind. A full time Army serviceman. A father. By 2019, the systems that had held his life together fractured all at once. He was newly divorced....
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