> Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, gets on the treadmill by five in the morning. Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s boss, is a fan of squats, push-ups and jogging. Brian Chesky, a co-founder of Airbnb, was once a competitive bodybuilder. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both reportedly have “pecs to die for”.<p>Tech executives are the celebrities of this community, and this is gossip-rag level reporting.
Embarrassing. This tripe gets published on The Economist these days?<p>A piece on the fitness trend in SV without the trash psychoanalysis would have been somewhat interesting.
The real submission here should be a thought piece along the lines of "what the hell is going on over at the Economist?", providing this link as evidence of its decline.
A junk article, but I would add that there is one aspect to the word "jock" that the silicon valley elite aren't respecting. They are not competing in heavily-regulated sports. For all the talk of clean living, drugs and "sups" are common. A jock is someone who works at being competitive, regardless of look. These guys are only interested in projecting an image.