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.
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....
When Effort Stops Being the Point
Most of us grow up believing effort is the answer. Work hard. Try harder. Stick with it. When something is not improving, the explanation usually feels simple: not enough effort. Over time, effort becomes both the solution and the story we tell ourselves when things...
A Different Way of Thinking About Health at Work
Most organizations do not struggle with a lack of information about health. They struggle with alignment. Employees know they should sleep more, move more, manage stress better, and take care of themselves. Leaders know that burnout, disengagement, turnover, and...
Two Johns and a Sammy: Lessons Learned From a Language I Do Not Understand
Principles as a Shared Language I have often said that principles are the Rosetta Stone to life’s many conundrums. What I mean is simple. The same truths quietly govern movement, relationships, technology, health, and identity. We just recognize them faster in domains...
More Than a Game: How Late Night Gaming Became a Health Investment
I have lost count of how many times I have watched well intentioned adults misread a behavior and rush to fix the wrong thing. This was one of those moments. The Problem That Was Easy to Name A high school teacher shared a frustration. One of her students, Roderick,...
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