LIF MED JE Jesse Henkel I Taped My Mouth Shut for Three Months. Here’s What the Sleep Tracker Actually Showed I started taping my mouth shut at night because a guy at my gym wouldn’t stop talking about it. He kept saying he hadn’t woken up with a…
JE Jesse Henkel The 15 Minute Morning Mobility Routine That Saved My Lower Back After Six Years at a Desk I had lower back pain for almost six years. Not constant. But there every morning when I rolled out of bed, and there again by 4 PM after a…
TCH SPT JE Jesse Henkel The Budget Home Lab Build That’s Survived Three Years and One Power Surge My home lab started as one Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole. Three years later it’s a small stack of mismatched gear in a wire shelf in my…
LIF GEN JE Jesse Henkel Contrast Therapy at Home: What Six Weeks of Hot and Cold Showers Did for My Recovery I didn’t get into contrast showers for any good reason. My water heater was acting up last winter and a few mornings the hot just ran out…
TCH MDA BIO JE Jesse Henkel I Bought 12 Viral Gadgets From My Feed. Five Were Keepers, the Rest Went Back. My feed figured out I have no self control around cheap gadgets, and now it’s basically a 24/7 infomercial. For a couple months I leaned…
SOC JE Jesse Henkel The Recovery Gear That Earned Its Place in My Daily Bag After Two Years I keep a small recovery kit in my work bag at all times. Most of what’s in there now is not what I started with. Two years of trial and…
LIF TCH JE Jesse Henkel The Bedroom Setup Changes That Fixed My Sleep After Years of Trying Gadgets First I spent about $800 on sleep gadgets over two years before I realized the problem was my bedroom itself. The gadgets weren’t bad. Some of…
ART LIF JE Jesse Henkel The $300 Desk Setup That Fixed My Back, My Sleep, and My Wallet Three years ago my desk was a disaster. A flat IKEA top, a $20 office chair from college, two laptops stacked on books, and a heating pad I…
ECO JE Jesse Henkel I Spent a Year Researching Mobile Homes Before I Bought One. Here’s What Actually Mattered. Most of what I read online about buying a mobile home was either trying to sell me one or scaring me away from the whole idea. The honest…
MDA HUM SPR JE Jesse Henkel Why I Keep Coming Back to Jewish Humor When Everything Feels Heavy Im not Jewish, but I’ve spent a weird amount of time reading Jewish humor over the past few years. Started during a rough stretch where…