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Bouldering Better 1.0

Everything you need to climb harder A 21 day program to improve your shoulder stability and your climbing. Over the past five years we have gathered data from over 1000 [...]

A Day on the Titanic

The biggest issue with the Titanic was that the collective belief held that it couldn't sink. It was heralded as 'An Unsinkable Ship', and this narrative was so deeply believed that the attempts to [...]

Bored and Lonely

The average smartphone owner unlocks their phone 180 times a day, and to be honest, I am often worse. That works out to being about once every six minutes. For me, this starts within [...]

You Know They Have You

You know that they have you, when the first thing that comes to mind when contemplating an adventure or an activity, is what you should buy. Let me know if this sounds familiar: This [...]

Disconnected: Part 2

This is technically the third article in a discussion I have been having about why we are busy, and how we fill our time. The first article is 'Why So Busy', the second was [...]

Disconnected

There is a tactile sensation of disconnection that comes with a phone for me. This could be a singular experience, perhaps a story I carry with me is set aside when the phone gets [...]

Why So Busy?

Being busy as a badge of honor is something we have collectively normalized. The claim that we are 'too busy' to do something is one of the most common refutations of almost anything that [...]

Permission to Care

This month we started a challenge at the gym. Initially it was just a way to get a number of other people involved in a project I wanted to work on. Yet, it has [...]

DNF

A few weeks ago I DNFd in a race for the first time in my life. It was, for me, the best possible outcome.   I sent the following to a friend afterwards:   [...]

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