Amsterdam has its first ever Bicycle Mayor! Initiated by CycleSpace in Amsterdam earlier this year, the Bicycle Mayor Program will work to move all aspects of cycling in cities from the fringes into the mainstream. This is part of a bigger initiative to accelerate the...
Yesterday was Father’s Day! One of my favorite things to do with my kids is share music with them. Specifically, music that made an impact on me. When I read that Spotify is making us boring because algorithms shape music taste and we’re losing human...
Despite taking the short 40km route of yesterday’s Retro Ronde van Vlaanderen, I’m still sore from hauling the tandem through train stations! I attended the 10th annual Belgian tribute to cycling’s glory days on behalf of our client Brooks Nederland (Kruitbosch). It was a blast and...
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another being is experiencing from within the other being’s frame of reference. [wikipedia] “That’s really the purpose of the talk today for me is this empathy of understanding the people that you’re working with. That’s the number...
Greetings from near Rodanthe, North Carolina in the Outer Banks! Still on ’vacation’ touring up the East Coast with my family. We’re posted up at a beach house with several of my wife’s friends from college & their families. As always, thanks for reading! Get next week's...
Live from Largo, Florida! Week one of keeping the rhythm on my family’s quasi-vacation to the US is coming to a close. I’ve mostly kept my goal of maintaining my early rising routine motivated by a mixture of road rides & skype calls. After this...
Good morning from 30,000ft en route to ?? ! Last week, after Budapest with Vulpine, I was in Stuttgart & München with Alternative 138 for Recon Instruments. Even managed to make a cameo on their twitter too. Unfamiliar with Recon? Check this out. This week in...
40th Issue! Happy Mothers Day to all you Moms reading! :) I’m back on the weekend schedule due to travel & spending extra time with my family. Yes, I’ve been getting more sleep since last issue too! In other news, Your Phone Might be Killing You. Under...
Jason Fried, Founder & CEO at Basecamp recently wrote a pretty opinionated Medium post saying that “Being tired isn’t a badge of honor”. Ok, but what about the health boons of skimping on sleep? Just kidding, sleep is super important. This is a frequent conversation...
Almost broke the chain! I’m a few days over due from the regularly scheduled time but it is just my own deadline after all. Turns out, people miss their own deadlines a lot – there are even some fancy schmancy psychological reasons why it happens....