Movie still in the banner by Angelos Giotopoulos Hard to believe it is already May! 2018 is already almost halfway over and that’s ok. : ) Spring is in full swing in Amsterdam & as summer approaches it is busy at the Twotone offices: More below...
Picture in the banner by Twotone Media Team Spring is in full swing in Amsterdam & I’m feeling crunched for time. I wrote about managers’ vs makers’ time back in issue 55 just over a year ago. I’d like to think I’ve gotten better at saying no...
Picture in the banner by Frank van der Sman Hello from Schiphol, Amsterdam’s airport! I’m about to board a flight to Bristol for Bespoked, the UK Handmade Bike Show. This year, we’re not only looking forward to hanging & riding with heaps of old friends like each...
Picture in the banner by Lizzie I’m penning this issue from the shores of le lac de Genève in Lausanne. I’m here volunteering as a mentor at the fifth annual Seedstars World Summit comprised of 65 startups from Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin...
Picture in the banner from Image ©Bicycle Quarterly; used with permission In this HBR article from 2014 about Making Business Personal, Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Andy Fleming and Matthew Miller posit that most people divert considerable energy daily to a second job that no one has...
Picture in the banner from Ass Savers Back in September, I wrote about how rest is best. Cool story, I know but what is up with getting your best rest? Feeling like the sleep you do get is insufficient isn’t uncommon. But, why is it so...
Picture in the banner from far ride magazine Stowe Boyd recently linked back to some of his 2013 writing on social capital in his newsletter. I really dig it. Boyd cites sociologist Ronald Burt & Burt’s 2004 book Structural Holes, The Social Structure of Competition (Harvard...
Picture in the banner by Martin Donat “Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”― Kurt Vonnegut Bordering on trite but still mostly right, these top five regrets of the dying have actionable antidotes: More below...
Picture in the banner by Alexander Popov I’ve been a punk dude over 30 for a few year now. Some clichés do apply. Hell, I tweaked my back doing a nose manual on my BMX today… So you can imagine when one of my all-time favorite...
Picture in the banner by Neil Gardiner Consider this dramatically oversimplified formula: "Life satisfaction = pleasure + meaning" It is an excerpt from an about a 30min read from Kevin Simler. His A Nihilist’s Guide to Meaning begins decidedly tongue in cheek & crafts a wonderful essay with...