9 Lobsters Enter. One Lobster Leaves.

A New Tradition

John F. Kennedy once let a turkey live on Thanksgiving, but the official presidential Turkey pardon didn't happen until the Regan administration. Nonetheless, I think letting a doomed animal survive a feast day is a pretty decent thing to do, overall.  That's why at this year's annual Carney family lobster broil my sisters and I decided to let one of these crustaceans go so it could spread a word of warning to all of lobster-kind that maybe it would be a good idea to avoid the traps that humans put at the bottom of the sea.

So, yeah, this week's video is pretty different from our regularly scheduled programming. It's part heartwarming, and, if you think about it too much, a little horrifying. That said it's also your exclusive inside look into my very odd yankee family roots. 

New Books and Training Programs

In other news, one book project that I'd been working on for a while hit a dead end two weeks ago, and I'm positively brimming with new ideas ideas that could end up being books, businesses or training programs. This week I'm recording The Enlightenment Trap as an audiobook (a long overdue project). I'm also beginning research on a book on napping that I hope will be the excuse everyone needs to give themselves a mid-day siesta. I'm also talking with Adam Rodman at Harvard about an idea on abandoned medical therapies that could still change the world. 

But that's not all!  I'm also beginning to lay the ground work for a training program based on What Doesn't Kill Us and The Wedge geared towards business leaders and people preparing for mountain summits or other difficult environmental terrain.  The plan is to offer a few different tiers--consulting over zoom, in-person sessions with 1-2 people in my back yard setup, a more adventure-focused expedition with Eric Hinman in the Denver area, and a 9-seat retreat near Powder Mountain in Utah that combines all the elements together. I hope to have more information soon. 

In the meanwhile, it might be a good idea to brush up on some books . . .