1. Avengers: Endgame stunt women. The pictures are worth thousands of words. Kinda athletic.
2. The Case For Doing Nothing. An argument for “total idleness”. What’s more PressingPause than that?
3. The Trouble with Mindfulness. I had this all wrong. I shudder to think, does that mean I could be wrong about something else?
4. The art of the steal: How De Gent pulls off his breakaway heists. One could probably count the Pressing Pause pro cycling fans on one hand, but damn this is a great description of a professional athlete’s multi-layered intelligence. Pro cycling is chess at 45 kpm.
“‘You have to listen to your instinct,’ he said. ‘When it’s hurting for me, it’s also hurting for the other riders. When there is not a break yet, but it’s hurting, then it’s time to go, because that’s when someone will say they will not go … when it’s painful, you have to lie to yourself – usually, that is the break that goes. It doesn’t really matter how many riders will join in. If it’s an important day, then a lot of riders will try.'”
[emphasis added so that I might remember it]
