The Snooze Button Generation

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Thursday, May 1, 2025

Meaningful work combats cortisol

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In his famous 2008 book Outliers , Malcolm Gladwell asserts that the three key components of meaningful work are autonomy, complexity and a ...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Attention doesn't equal cool

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Editor's Note: Although a lot of the focus of this blog entry is the deleting of the Pokemon Go app, Snooze Button Generation founder an...
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Saturday, March 1, 2025

Creative nonfiction at its highest level

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Editor's Note: The Snooze Button Generation originally published "100 Nonfiction Books I Recommend" in 2019. As we read more b...
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Saturday, February 1, 2025

Pokemon goes into addiction

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One glorious Saturday afternoon in November 2013 , I stumbled across a Lord of the Rings pinball machine for sale at Cal Bowl in Lakewood. I...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Alive at 27?

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Happy New Year! ... And now let's talk about dead rock stars. OK. It might seem like an odd topic as Baby New Year slides down the firef...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Gen X college holds own vs. Gen Z

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It's time for me to battle Sophie. Mano y mano. I grew up on games and competition, and we played constant board games, cards and HORSE....
Friday, November 1, 2024

Let's do the Time Warp again

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It's astounding. Time is fleeting. Oh thank God, the 2024 Presidential Election will end — hopefully, maybe — this week, and I'm not...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Active aging enables freedom

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Well, another year has sped by in my aging process, and I turned 51 on Friday. I'm loving this aging thing and have accidentally committ...
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The art of overachievement

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It feels great to overachieve. But what does that even mean? Achievement and goals can be tricky to gauge because we usually move the goalpo...
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Thursday, August 1, 2024

Art sneaks into Polack's world

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It's hard to be an artist in the modern age. For some, they might chuckle at the word. Artist?!? Are you kidding me? It's curious to...
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Monday, July 1, 2024

The Year of Coffee Shops

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We parents have a lot of guilt — or at least I do. I am so sorry for addicting my youngest daughter, Chloe, to caffeine. My bad! It began in...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Praise the messenger

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"Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel." With the twisted economics of baseball, big-market teams, like the Yanke...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Connection keys our health

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Editor's Note: The Snooze Button Generation originally published "100 Nonfiction Books I Recommend" in 2019. As we read more n...
Monday, April 1, 2024

Darkness before light on Opening Day

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My hometown of Cleveland will experience quite a day next week, when the Guardians play their Home Opener two hours after a rare total solar...
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