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The Social Immunity of Jonas Martilli:  The Man Who Never Slept and Somehow Thrived

The Social Immunity of Jonas Martilli: The Man Who Never Slept and Somehow Thrived

by Health401k | Human Connection, Musings by Our Founder, Ryan Travis Woods

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

The Sage of the Silver Ball: How Peter’s Pinball Quest Became an Epic Health Investment

by Health401k | Human Connection, Musings by Our Founder, Ryan Travis Woods

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

The Bumpa Built Scavenger Hunt: How Two Adults Turned Fidget Hunting Into A Health Investment

by Health401k | Human Connection, Musings by Our Founder, Ryan Travis Woods

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

The Vintage Bike That Rewired My Understanding of Health Investment

by Health401k | Human Connection, Musings by Our Founder, Ryan Travis Woods

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....
The People Change People Paradox™:  How environments make individual change possible, scalable, and self-reinforcing.

The People Change People Paradox™: How environments make individual change possible, scalable, and self-reinforcing.

by Health401k | Habit Forming, Human Connection, Musings by Our Founder

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

People Change People™ – Social Gravity and the Hidden Architecture of Health

by Health401k | About Health401k, Human Connection, Musings by Our Founder

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...
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