Instagram unlocks lots of powerful images and metaphors. Recently, a couple of images there really resonated with things I’ve been thinking about relative to how Racery creates new features. The first image is a reminder about the importance of saying no. We’re all rushing forward to certainty and completion, and …
In 2012, celebrating his 50th year running in the Manchester Turkey Trot, the legendary runner Amby Burfoot , wrote that a life full of running isn’t just about health and technique. It’s 90% motivation. He offers these tips for staying motivated: Read stories about courageous, life-changing runners in Runner’s World; …
In the summer of 1985, Mike King spent four months pushing his wheelchair from Fairbanks, Alaska to Washington, D.C. This summer, 136 people commemorated that trek by pooling their exercise miles to race the same distance in two weeks on a virtual route hosted by Racery. The commemorative race raised …
As you’ve probably heard if you live around here, Moogfest is coming to Durham next May. The festival schedule was announced yesterday — we’ll have an amazing array of speakers and musicians jamming within a five minute walk of Racery HQ on Main Street. Started in NYC in 2004, Moogfest is billed as “a platform …
Everyone on the Racery team, both in Durham and Budapest, gathers one morning every two weeks to chew together on a big idea or question. First thing this morning, we talked about “motivation.” Like I said, something BIG. We chose to discuss motivation because, as you can see if you …
Nietzsche famously argued that art grows from the marriage of Apollo, the Greek god embodying rationality, order and planning, and Dionysus, who embodies drunken disorder and wild dancing. The two gods obviously conflict, but their unruly marriage is essential, Nietzsche said. Strong companies likewise embody a continuous conflict between these …
