The List­serve is a mail­ing list where, once you’ve signed up, you’ll get a daily (Mon­day to Fri­day) email from some­one else on the list. The writer of the email is cho­sen at ran­dom from the, at present, over 21,000 peo­ple signed up to The Listserve.

My Thoughts

A mini review of The List­serve, if you will.

In the cou­ple of months since I signed up, I’d say that over ³⁄₄ of the emails have been some­where between good to great. And I don’t feel any oblig­a­tion to read every sin­gle email that comes along — if I fall behind I just delete the pre­vi­ous ones and start with the next day’s email.

Sam­ple Email

Here’s a quote from today’s List­serve email by Vitor Bosshard from Zürich, Switzerland:

The thing is, my heart is bro­ken. Lit­er­ally. I have a genetic dis­ease that deforms the heart over time, caus­ing it to pump less effi­ciently, so every phys­i­cal activ­ity is more demand­ing. Every time I overex­ert myself I risk per­ma­nent dam­age to my heart, mak­ing the con­di­tion worse. I’ve known this for a while now, but I had been ignor­ing it and push­ing myself to the limit nonethe­less, just because I couldn’t deal with the idea of revert­ing to my old unfit self. I’m slowly learn­ing to accept my lim­i­ta­tions, how­ever, no mat­ter how unfair they feel, and am try­ing to find a mid­dle way that keeps me fit and pro­tects my heart at the same time.

I want you guys to take a minute today to appre­ci­ate the won­der of this incred­i­bly com­plex and frag­ile machin­ery we inhabit, which keeps tick­ing along day in and day out, with­out us even notic­ing until some­thing goes wrong. Maybe take another minute and ask your­selves if you are putting enough effort into main­tain­ing it, con­sid­er­ing you’ll be stuck inside for the next 20, 50, 80 years. And if you have a sug­ges­tion for an awe­some, low-​​intensity sport that’s engag­ing and fun, I would absolutely love to hear it!

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