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.
When the Biggest Levers Are the Hardest to Measure
An alternate perspective on health, performance, and what actually compounds over time Strength training matters. Aerobic capacity matters. Movement competency matters. I want to say that clearly and without hesitation. I have been a personal trainer for over two...
The Social Immunity of Jonas Martilli: The Man Who Never Slept and Somehow Thrived
If you were building a textbook case study on “how to optimize health,” Jonas Martilli would probably not make the first draft. Or the second. And yet, if you zoom out far enough, he may be one of the clearest windows I know into how health actually works in real...
The Sage of the Silver Ball: How Peter’s Pinball Quest Became an Epic Health Investment
If you had told me a 70-year-old man and a pinball machine would redefine my understanding of health, I would have assumed you were pitching me a very strange movie. And yet here we are. The truth is wilder, funnier, and more meaningful than anything I could have...
The Bumpa Built Scavenger Hunt: How Two Adults Turned Fidget Hunting Into A Health Investment
Adria is a pediatric speech language pathologist. She LOVES working with kids, she loves supporting families, and somewhere along the way, that path led her straight into one of the most delightfully surreal local businesses we have ever experienced: Bumpa Built, a 3D...
The Vintage Bike That Rewired My Understanding of Health Investment
In 2020, while the world shut down, I developed a ritual that probably saved me from spinning out completely: endlessly scrolling Facebook Marketplace. It was soothing. Predictable. A weird little digital treasure hunt in a time when everything else felt uncertain....
How Waking Up at 3:15 AM for a Starbucks Glass Bear Cup Became a Legitimate Health Investment
Sleep is one of the most important pillars of health. So how on earth does waking up at 3:15 AM to hunt down a limited-release Korean “Bearista” glass cup from Starbucks shift from “this is crazy” to “this was one of the best health investments we made all year”? As...
Stranger Things: Why a 1980s-Inspired Sci-Fi Show Became One of My Most Unexpected Health Investments
Adria with Gaten Matarazzo, aka Dustin from Stranger Things, her undisputed favorite resident of Hawkins. I’m usually late to the party when it comes to TV. Actually, always late. When Game of Thrones ended, people spent months dissecting plotlines, arguing over...
The People Change People Paradox™: How environments make individual change possible, scalable, and self-reinforcing.
If People Change People™ explains how individuals grow, the People Change People Paradox™ explains something just as important: Our environments either support our growth or quietly pull us back to who we used to be. It is a paradox because: We change because of...
People Change People™ – Social Gravity and the Hidden Architecture of Health
The Belief That Started Everything Before there was a formal framework for Health401k®. Before there were People Change People™ cards, workshops, or social experiments. Before we used phrases like “social gravity” or “environment design”… There was a simple...
IGNITE. EXCITE. EMPOWER.® – The Quiet Architecture Beneath Everything We Build
The Origin Story Before there was Health401k®. Before People Change People™. Before workshops, frameworks, or curricula… There was a simple belief: People grow when their curiosity is sparked, their next step is supported, and their environment makes progress feel...
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