Sarah Lacy wrote an article last week for her site, Pando Daily, that really struck a chord with me. Her point? That new media companies like Vice (and her own) are succeeding thanks to patient founders and slowly building audience and ad revenue thanks to maintaining a unique perspective and the continuous creation of great original content. […]
Mud run. Check?
When I think “rugged maniac,” I think of someone like Bear Grylls eating worms and hacking his way through a tropical forest. But here I was last weekend, jumping over a wooden gate (the event’s first obstacle) to stand at the starting line of the Rugged Maniac 5k mud run at the Alameda County Fairgrounds […]
Side project: Listwatcher
For the past few years I’ve toyed with an idea to aggregate as many high quality Year in Review lists that I could find. As a former writer and editor of these lists, I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with the things. They’re relatively easy to complete since any research and editorial is either internal […]
Portland: The beer scene goes to 11
In Oregon you can’t fill your gas tank without help from an attendant. So when my sister said, “There’s a gas station down the road that fills growlers…” something didn’t compute. A what? Where? Growlers? Are you kidding? A couple hours later we were in the car, driving from her place that sits conveniently on the […]
Holiday surf surprise
At the beginning of December, we spent a day and night in Santa Cruz. The surf was flat so we enjoyed a walk along West Cliff Dr., had lunch at Kelly’s Bakery, and stumbled into a new shop (well, new to me) in the Swift St. Courtyard called Sawyer Land & Sea Supply. As is […]