All The Signs Point To The Need For Different Motivation
After a significant hiatus from writing here – during which some fucker registered my URL when it lapsed and I didn’t realise (the bastard charged me 10x what they paid to register the URL to get it back – nice, ethical business model there) – I have decided…
Minimum Complexity = Maximum Results
I read a piece today in a fashion magazine published by the Guardian. I was having a relaxing 15 minutes on Good Friday with Julie. We were in the new local coffee shop on the same street as the Freestak x Like the Wind offices (check it out…
Hold on.
Alabama Shakes is my new favourite musical obsession. I tend to get fixated on a band (or sometimes just an album. I have occasionally ended up obsessing over a single track). I love their funky, soulful rock. And Brittney Howard’s voice … magical. Anyway, they have a track…
These are a few of my favourite things …
Unlike the characters in The Sound of Music, my favourite things do not include ‘raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens’ but there are a few things that I have been consuming, wearing, playing with or working with this year that…
The addiction cycle reasserting itself
I have no evidence to say whether I am more or less inclined to get addicted than the general population. I used to think that I was much more susceptible than most, but that was probably me just giving myself an excuse for my vices. Now I tend…
Brexit: what the future might look like
I am very proud to say that I voted to remain as part of the European Union in the referendum a few months ago. I am also happy to admit that I was utterly shocked at the result. Lesson one from the vote is that I realise that…
Time and curiosity is all you need
I was watching a video of my good friend Charlie Dark recently, talking about how he set up the RunDemCrew, his ideas, the basis of entrepreneurship and his philosophy on life. So much of this resonates with how I feel about co-founding Freestak and Like the Wind magazine…
Life changes and all that matters is movement
I recently stumbled across an article on Explore Magazine online. It was written by Will Gadd and it explored the idea that as we get older – as time passes – our interests change and the physical activity that we engage with changes. This article really resonated with…
My runners prayer
Recently I was talking about the words of the Lord’s Prayer – something that I don’t think about all that often, but having sung the words every morning at chapel in school from the age of 11 to 18, I had no problem recalling them. In the prayer…
Ancient history to the present day
One of the things that prompted me and Mrs. Freeman to launch Like the Wind magazine, was the proliferation of great cycling magazines – the Ride Journal, Rouleur, Bone Shaker. Now there are more popping up (and sadly some disappearing… for now. Au reviour Ride Journal) such as…