Challenge colleagues to a virtual race around Rome, Italy!

Wish you could do an epic fitness challenge with your office colleagues? Here are four reasons your boss will thank you (mille grazie!) for inviting everyone to Italy… on Racery’s virtual fitness challenge around Rome, that is. 1)  Glamorous sights. Each participant is challenged to complete 49 miles over the …

Management lessons from Instagram and Twitter

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 …

Mixing fluid and rigid systems

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 …

Walk farther, faster in your seventies to live longer

Here’s a new study from researchers at Tufts to share over turkey if you’re looking to motivate older relatives. Even a  little walking goes a LONG way: * Adults who walked at a pace faster than three miles per hour (mph) had a 50%, 53%, 50% lower risk of coronary heart …

Life on the pixelated border

Busy building virtual races for real athletes, we’re obviously fascinated by interactions on the borderline between machines and athletes. So two stories this week caught our eye. First, the Washington Post noted that, after winning a gold medal in the world championships in Beijing, the most-likely next Olympian gold medalist …