$22.00
Streetwear at its finest. The kind of streetwear you see models posing in on Instagram, with their immaculate makeup and oversized coat barely covering tights and a tank. The kind of streetwear you see backward on the head of a...
$5.00
I never joined a fraternity in college, but I sure went to all the rush parties for the free food. I've been told that a frat guy can pin a sorority girl, and that indicates some sort of loose commitment (that the girl...
$800.00
Any time someone asks me what espresso machine I recommend for home use, I tell them it's a bad idea. Making espresso at home is finicky, wasteful, time-consuming, and a maintenance headache. It's all of that at the DoubleShot and...
$37.00
I was watching a MasterClass with Sara Blakely and the owner of Fellow appeared on a segment entitled "Culture & Growth Case Study." That must've been cool to get to chat with the owner of Spanx AND to get on MasterClass....
$44.00
The Launchpad was born out of a scattered mess of pourover gear strewn about my counters and cabinets and the inconvenience of fetching it all each morning with bleary-eyed confusion, irritation, and a need to simplify my life. I needed a...
$30.00
Coffees, like clothing styles, are constantly changing. That's one big difference between commercial coffee and specialty coffee. It's a seasonal crop, and while there are a few staples that never seem to go out of fashion, the majority of our offerings are...
$39.00
In September I went to Flagstaff Arizona and ran a fifty mile race in the mountains surrounding the town, and the following day I went walking around the turn of the century downtown en route to MotherRoad Brewing, just across...
Fresh out of Monmouth College with an accounting degree, I’d been to enough interviews to know that’s not what I wanted to do for a living, and then I received a letter in the mail. A letter inviting me to a pro football combine. And I immediately knew that’s what I would do. So I put my office career on the back burner and started studying fitness and sport psychology and strength training in a big way. I’d heard rumor that a physical therapist in my small hometown was training athletes and getting 2-4% strength increases per workout. I’d created my own workout program with spreadsheet algorithms that predicted what my next weight workout should be (the result of an... Continue Reading →
“I want to start a business.” Oh that’s cool. Living the American Dream... I was at Home Depot a couple days ago and a woman at the self-checkout was telling the employee, in that prideful, abasing sort of way, that she was opening a business - tomorrow. She said it in a way that struck a chord in me because I could tell that she felt she was doing something for the ages, which most people couldn’t do and that this monumental task was even at the threshold of her super-human capability. And yes, I know that getting to the start line is hard. One of the hardest. But once you’re there, the real fight begins. I remember going to the... Continue Reading →