Wednesday, and the highlights today include a brief history of the body mass index (BMI) and what to watch to appease your inner couch potato.  Follow up the body/mind section with a how things work section.  Spend a few hours with Bob on the iPhone 11 and finish up with a new list.

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A unique YouTube channel called STAT gave us a video on BMI, which stands for Body Mass Index, and anyone who has ever been to a General Physician or had to go through a standard health screening has heard of BMI.  For many of us, it doesn't make us feel skinny!  This video will give you an idea of why.  As a bonus, at the minute 5 mark, you can see an old video produced by the insurance industry called Cheers for Chubby.

The NYT has a comprehensive website section on what to watch.  We suggest hitting this section and prioritizing those final cold weather winter blues day binge-watches before spring pulls you out of the house.  On the list are several Apple TV shows, most notably the third season of Ted Lasso, which we expect to break streaming servers, and whose popularity gives us hope for the world.  Related, at least by writing, is another Apple TV series called Shrinking, created by Roy Kent or by Kent's human counterpart Brett Goldstein.  Shrinking also stars Jason Segel and Harrison Ford.

If hope for the world isn’t your thing, move over to Christoph Waltz, who plays Regus Patoff in a show on Amazon Prime called The Consultant.  We started this series to report on it, and our hope is that the first episode is like the first chapter in John Grisham's A Time To Kill.  If you read the book, the detail that Grisham goes into when he describes the assault on a 10-year-old girl is gruesome, and it makes you second guess your choice of what to do in your free time.  The first episode of The Consultant is also gruesome and the opposite of Ted Lasso!  We will report back after we finish the series.

Joanna Stern, our favorite at The Wall Street Journal, gives us a story and an accompanying video report on what happens to your old phone when you trade it in.  If you have ever looked at the aftermarket for smartphones, this story will have meaning.  If you are a parent with smartphone-aged children, you have been in the aftermarket.  At some point, one of those kids will break, drown or lose a phone in the middle of the contract, and if you didn't buy the insurance off to the aftermarket, you would go.  The aftermarket is sometimes as easy as going to Amazon and searching for unlocked phones.

Stern reports from U.S. Mobile Phones (USMP) in New Brunswick, N.J., a giant facility that processed 2.5 million phones last year.  There are many stages the phones go through, and Stern, being Stern, named the phone she used to go through the refurbishing process "Bob."  An iPhone 11 that did successfully make it through the system.  The numbers are also interesting; the breakdown, a company like USMP will buy phones from carriers who use promotions to get existing customers to trade old phones in for new ones.  The estimated cost to USMP for "Bob" was $250; after the phone makes it through the refurbishment process, it typically sells for $350.  Fascinating virtual tour from a great personality.  Read more from Joanna Stern below.

A new publication to us – Raptitude, gave us a story about a new productivity trick.  This one involves writing out a few of the things you have to get done today.  A tool like this is not revolutionary, but writer David Cain adds a trick we use to make sure we get up and run in the morning.  Cain's Right Now List is a sticky note with a few critical tasks, and similar to putting your workout gear next to the bed, the items on his list aren't big; they are tiny steps to help you get in the mode of the larger project or task. 

Do It For Me Now.

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