THIS SUMMER. A REVOLUTIONARY NEW MOUNTAIN BIKE WHEEL SIZE. WILL TAKE THE WORLD BY STORM. please pause reading here for dramatic effect TWENTY INCHES. That’s right. It wasn’t long ago that you skeptically eyed 29-inch wheels, thinking, “How could it make that much ...
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Three years ago, on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, I clicked “publish” on a blog post on this web site, and then put a link to the post on Twitter, to let my 25 or so Twitter followers know I was publishing some writing. ...
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SCENE: Monday morning at the office. You arrive, drop your stuff at your desk and walk over to the coffee pot to grab a cup and you run into your co-worker, Viral Nova. You: Hey Viral Nova, how was your weekend? Viral Nova: ...
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Herb and Jan Conn developed almost all of the early climbing in South Dakota’s Needles with a 60-foot rope, almost one-fourth the length of contemporary ropes. Because of their efforts and style in the ’40s and ’50s, the place has a reputation for ...
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I got an email from Statigram the other day offering to collect my “best Instagram moments of 2013.” I thought Why Not and clicked a couple times, and a few minutes later, I received in my inbox a 15-second video of my five ...
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Of course you want to look good. We all do. But before you throw yourself headlong into a new workout routine, magazines would like to ask you some questions—just to make sure you know what the hell you’re doing out there. I scanned ...
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My parents gave me Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York book for a holiday gift, and I spent the next hour flipping from cover to cover, in awe and admiration of Stanton’s work, and the depth of humanity he’d been able to experience ...
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“Oh yeah,” Lee said from his side of the table at the Two Sisters Cafe in Idaho Springs, “you know how many calories you burn just trying to stay warm?” I took huge guiltless bites of a breakfast burrito. The question was purely ...
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With the help of a bunch of great friends, I spent the last couple years putting together a book called The New American Road Trip Mixtape. It’s a story about living on the road, the search for the American Dream, and our evolving ...
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