Marty Manley on economics, politics, technology, and culture

Sports

Coaches

Coaches are often known as masters of technique, but really they teach life skills: teamwork and competition, ferocity and empathy, solidarity and resistance. Great coaches inspire performance that players cannot produce without them. They model leadership by keeping their player’s interests first and by knowing when to admonish, encourage, or reprimand. Many of us recall our [...]

Protection That Makes You Weaker

I have taken up running and, like boomers everywhere, I worry about hurting myself. Data suggest that between a third and half of runners get hurt running every year, making running a surprisingly high risk exercise. Why is this? Journalist Chris McDougall wondered why he was getting hurt when humans have been running for two [...]

Hang 30: Time Surfing

Been awhile since we showed first rate surfing videos. This one from Aussie Rip Curl, uses a “30 camera array” and six world class surfers to enable editors to shift perspective, freeze frame from a combination of angles, and create the “Matrix” like illusion of perspective. Pretty cool. They also produced a video on how [...]

"Dream bicycles that change and grow"

One of my favorite cycling blogs, Eco Velo, ran this photo some time back. I am slightly obsessed with bicycles and business, so I noticed not just four sweet rides, but a nice illustration about how competition and business innovation are changing even the bike business.  THE ROMANCE OF BICYCLES Most bikes sold in most [...]

For Fun….

I am a secret Laird Hamilton fan. Think he may be the best big wave surfer ever. He invented (some say co-invented) tow-in surfing. This is nothing like the sport of my youth — but a LOT like the fantasies of my youth. This is pretty amazing…