The Outdoor Inclusion Coalition is hosting it's first annual BIPOC Climbing Festival. Taking place November 8-10 in New River Gorge National Park, the festival's mission aims to bring together BIPOC climbers to build meaningful community in nature. Looks like a fantastic event with great guides!
Facing tremors, insomnia and pain, Pittsburgh-based artist John Peña searched for answers — and came to blame the noxious air in his neighborhood. Read John's amazing chronicle of his shifting ailments captured through several years of daily sketches. (via PublicSource; support independent media!)
I was digging through an old hard drive today looking for something and I stumbled upon this pic from the night Jilly and I got engaged in 2003. Pre-cell phones. Pre-selfies. This was at our hotel on 48th & Broadway, I think. Notice the vintage Juliana Theory patch on my bag. Good times.
The ultrarunning community is usually super chill & we are typically very supportive of others as they crush epic runs. This report of Camille Herron removing accolades from the Wikipedia pages of Courtney Dauwalter and Kilian Jornet - and 'fluffing' her own - are surprising and troubling.
Finished reading: Filterworld by Kyle Chayka 📚
This book scratched the right itch for me at precisely the right time. It affirms my choice to walk away from corporate social media and go all-in on the indie or open social web. Chayka's thesis asserts that proliferation of algorithmic recommendations flattens and homogenizes culture. He weaves a detailed thread from the origins of algorithmic thinking in ancient times, through the early days of Facebook's News Feed which brought algorithms into every home, through the current algorithmic landscape that feeds from people's time and attention at every turn. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in mindfulness & digital culture.
In my continued effort to eradicate algorithmic recommendations from my life, I am exploring alternatives to Spotify for music & podcast streaming. Current thinking is a local file library with iTunes Match enabled (music) and freestanding podcast app. How are y'all doing it? Advice welcome!
As an avid cyclist, how can I be this bad at marking all the reCAPTCHA squares that contain bicycles?
I'm lucky to work on a product team that builds solutions in close partnership with our users. David Allison (engineering lead on our team) describes our process on the REI Engineering blog. This approach creates such a high signal to noise ratio, and it shows in the work we are able to deliver.
