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Sid Bensalah @sidbensalah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Episode #109 is live. Darren Swanson joins Pre-Zero Sports Talk to explore group flow, sport, inner development, sustainability, trust, technology, and human maturity. The question behind it all: do we know who we need to become? youtu.be/JyL4ZTBGigw

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Beyond Flow State: What We Need to Become to Survive | Darren Swanson

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Sid Bensalah @sidbensalah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I had driven past this place many times without knowing what was there. A ruined church. A forgotten saint. Pilgrims, holy wells, and traces of Catholic Sweden beneath the landscape. Part I of The Forgotten Catholic North. Before Karlung sidbensalah.substack.com/p/before-kar...

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Before Karlung

A forgotten church beside an old road in Sweden opens a much larger story about faith, memory and the Catholic North

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Sid Bensalah @sidbensalah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

McVay won a Super Bowl and discovered the sentence he had been living by was a lie. His wife reminded him of the leader he said he wanted to be. He stayed. The practice still follows him off the field. Rest cannot be postponed until life finally obeys us. sidbensalah.substack.com/p/the-win-th...

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The Win That Did Not Finish Him

Sean McVay called himself tormented while coaching a Super Bowl favourite. What he revealed was not a coaching secret. It was the old human error of mistaking arrival for rest.

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Sid Bensalah @sidbensalah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The past few days have brought enormous noise about AI and the end of humanity. We should take real risks seriously, but never treat speculation as prophecy or let fear dictate public policy. AI must remain a tool in service to humanity. My latest article: sidbensalah.substack.com/p/fear-is-no...

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Fear Is Not Policy

The AI extinction debate deserves evidence, responsibility and safeguards, not prophecy or panic

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Sid Bensalah @sidbensalah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We are all running. The question is where our habits are taking us. Saint Paul’s image of the athlete is not about defeating our neighbour. It is about discipline, direction and refusing to spend our one life beating the air. sidbensalah.substack.com/p/do-not-run...

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Do Not Run Aimlessly

What the athlete knows that we keep forgetting

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Sid Bensalah @sidbensalah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sweden votes on 13 September. I will cast my ballot according to my conscience, but my vote does not require my allegiance. Politics matters. It just cannot become our identity. My latest on The Way: My Vote Is Not My Identity sidbensalah.substack.com/p/my-vote-is...

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My Vote Is Not My Identity

As Sweden prepares to vote, belonging comes before the ballot box.

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Sid Bensalah @sidbensalah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Being pain-free doesn’t mean an athlete is ready to compete. In Episode #108, Peter Dionisopoulos explains why return to sport must account for speed, load, fatigue, movement, and real competition demands. Why Being Pain-Free Doesn't Mean You're Ready to Play is now live. ▶️ youtu.be/Kt9CyjxsopI

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Why Being Pain-Free Doesn't Mean You're Ready to Play

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Sid Bensalah @sidbensalah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Robots outran Usain Bolt in Beijing. The real question is not whether machines will become faster, stronger, or more capable than us. It is what we become when they do. My new article: “When the Machines March Faster Than Men.” sidbensalah.substack.com/p/when-the-m...

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When the Machines March Faster Than Men

Robots outran Usain Bolt in Beijing. The harder question is what we become when machines outperform us.

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Sid Bensalah @sidbensalah.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Episode #107 with Phil Cohen is live. We discuss Simplifyber, liquid fiber molding, hockey, military leadership, MIT Sloan, startups, fatherhood, and the future of manufacturing beyond plastic. Watch or listen: prezerosportstalk.com/podcast/beyo...

YouTube thumbnail featuring Pre-Zero Sports Talk host Sid Bensalah and Phil Cohen of Simplifyber discussing the future of sustainable manufacturing, innovative materials, and alternatives to plastic, with the headline "Beyond Plastic?".

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Sid Bensalah @sidbensalah.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What are investors really buying when they pay $12.5B for the Lakers? Sport is becoming an asset class. The harder question is what happens to belonging when everything has a price. sidbensalah.substack.com/p/the-price-...

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The Price of Belonging

When a basketball team becomes a Van Gogh, and the game begins to wonder what it is selling

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Sid Bensalah @sidbensalah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Summer is supposed to be the season of happiness. Yet for some, it becomes the season of deepest restlessness. A reflection on summer depression, modern life, and why comfort alone cannot satisfy the human heart. open.substack.com/pub/sidbensa...