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Conversation with Marvin …
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Conversation with Marvin …

Marvin reckons New Years resolutions should start in December. He figures it’s a bad idea to jump on the January bandwagon because by the end of March, the wheels fall off. It is generally the same pattern every year because people are inspired but it doesn’t last, there is no momentum. People put so much...

Five Pre-Workout Foods
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Five Pre-Workout Foods

Before talking about what we should eat before a workout, what about not eating at all? A popular fat-burning strategy is to exercise first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. In his book Body for Life, Bill Phillips states that performing 20 minutes of intense aerobic exercise after an overnight fast has greater...

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What Successful Men Do On Monday Mornings …

Monday morning is by far the most important couple of hours of the whole week. Why? Because Monday mornings set the pace for the next 168 hours. If you start your Monday morning off successfully, that increases your chance of having a killer week. If you have a really bad Monday morning, that sets a...

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Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986)

The Alien series has been something on my to-watch list for a long time. There are a bunch of classic movies that I’ve never seen before. For example, I’m a huge boxing fan but I’ve never seen Raging Bull.  I have a general reluctance of watching movies that are more than 30 years old or...

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Best Television Series …

The best television series of the 90’s The Wire. Run: 2002-2008, 60 episodes “Sheeeeeeeeeit.” Former crime reporter David Simon conceived his mighty drama as a modern-day Greek tragedy. A morality play set in a drug-ravaged urban hell, where everyone is compromised and the system is broken. Novelistic in scope and depth, it forensically unpeeled each...

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Starting Your Day Three Hours Earlier …

An enthusiastic convert to the 04:45 club is Ben Wilson, an ultra-runnerand founder of the Why They Win podcast series, who adopted the regime after reading an interview with Willink two months ago. “From 4.30am ‘til 7.30, those are three hours when the brain is extremely focused and nobody dares to call you at that...

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The Hangman Film

When the truth of his Father’s disappearance is brought to the surface on the eve of his execution, Khetha, a prison warder working in The Gallow’s death-row prison in Pretoria South Africa 1989 must either choose forgiveness or live forever with regret of failing to accept the truth. A Tribal Media House Production in associate...

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Amazon Go, a grocery store without checkout or lines …

Amazon on Monday morning unveiled Go, what it’s calling “the world’s most advanced shopping technology.” Here’s how it works: Head to the Amazon Go store (at this point, Amazon has announced one location in Seattle), open the corresponding app, and scan your phone on the way in. From there, you can stow away your phone...