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.
Proactive Relationship Inoculation: The Quiet Health Investment Almost Nobody Makes
In 2017, I met one of the coolest people - Dr. Rob Robinson. Rob would soon become one of my dearest friends. Since then, we have grown personally and professionally. He is one of our lead educators and provides invaluable guidance on relationships, family dynamics,...
The Unparalleled Health Investment of Surrounding Yourself With Wildly Different Perspectives (Part 2)
In Part 1, I shared a moment where one simple question quietly unraveled an entire room of shared certainty. How did the nail get there? This follow up is about what happens when you finally remove the nail and then return someone to the environment that put it there....
The Unparalleled Health Investment of Surrounding Yourself With Wildly Different Perspectives
Some of the most powerful health investments do not look like workouts, supplements, or routines. They look like people. Specifically, people who see the world in ways that quietly dismantle your certainty. Adria is, in many ways, an enigma to me. She has an...
The Joyful Polymath You Did Not Know You Needed: How Curiosity, Conversation, and an Unexpected Oracle Became a Health Investment
Some of the most meaningful health investments in my life did not begin with intention. They began with curiosity. With travel. With sitting quietly in rooms where I had no business being the expert. Since my early twenties, I have traveled across New England,...
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...
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