My DiScOrD jOuRnEy began earlier this year when I abruptly started using it for managing college-aged people in intern teams. Loved the split threads for getting each working group into their own space but having a general thread and an announcements thread for important stuff, and the interns made like three? four? different meme threads, all of which were clearly different to them but looked identical to me. I was surprised at how well it worked in a very challenging situation with no lead time on my end for learning it.
I have used Slack but always found it a little clunky.
In general I think that the internet should just be a communication protocol for sending pdfs of relevant data, but that’s not the way it went, soooo here we are.
Also gravel article is going to go to the blogmaster to be posted this week, last call for adding your thoughts., DM me here for the doc link
WRT gravel, I just had a coffee thought: As I recall the 2010-2012 proto gravel stuff, it coincided with the huge interest in NAHBS, and ogling the customs that looked like road bikes but took bigger tires. And there was a big crossover with the builders of those bikes and the regional events that called for such bikes (I’m thinking D2R2 specifically in my neck of the woods). And of course there was the relationship the big brands had with scouting NAHBS for trends.
Basically I think the popularity of the hand-built scene- and the ability for buyers to get the bike they wanted, and internet goons to daydream about those bikes- also contributed to what became gravel.
yeah, I have NAHBS and D2R2 in there, definitely people were going to custom framebuilders for styles of bike that big brands weren’t selling. My loose guess is that this has been happening for a long long time, but the conincidence of NAHBS, proto gravel, and big social media platforms like IG are what really drove attention. Instead of seeing a cool weird bike once out on the trails or seeing a super grainy thumbnail image of it on some dude’s personal website, you get big luxurious photos that you can share with everyone.
Cannondale was super cool and an SR900 is the only bike that I would buy out of pure nostalgia because I think I learned to read via a Cannondale catalog my parents gave me when I was very young. Pretty sure I literally ate part of that catalog I think
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