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#92 May 31, 2017 (っ•́。•́)♪♬ Nº92 A Weekend Well Spent Brings A Week Of Content 🌿 🏕 – I skipped a week! Did you notice?That used to freak me out but sometimes completely unplugging is sim
#91 May 18, 2017 {•̃_•̃} Nº91 Can't Use Droids to Fill the Voids 🤖 🖥 – Its been a busy week back in Holland after last week's Swiss trip. (Peek these recaps by John & E
#90 May 10, 2017 ٩(͡๏_๏)۶ Nº90 Will Travel for Gravel 🏔️ 🌄 – "As it is always with our trips, bikes broke, weather sucked, and we were lost as hell. Will gladly p
#89 May 4, 2017 Nº89 ヽ(´ー`)ノ make every mile worth your while 🚦 🚧 – The American English definition of "make it worth someone’s while" is: "to pay a reward to someone fo
#88 April 26, 2017 Nº88 (☞゚ヮ゚)☞ Appreciate & They'll Reciprocate! 🔍 👍 – “Whatever else each of us derives from our work, there may be nothing more precious than the feeling
#87 April 19, 2017 Nº87 ε=ε=┏( >_<)┛Geschwindigkeit bringt Sicherheit 🏃༄ – 'Speed brings safety' is 'Geschwindigkeit bringt Sicherheit' in German. A variation of Issue 77's the
#86 April 12, 2017 Nº86 ಠ益ಠ Attack the Pack! 🚴🏻 💨 – “A man who dares to waste an hour of timehas not discovered the value of his life.” —Charles DarwinI
#85 April 5, 2017 Nº85 ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Stoked for Bespoked! 🔧 ⚙️ – I was wracking my brain trying to think of some Cockney Rhyming Slang combo for this week's intro &am
#84 March 29, 2017 Nº84 ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ Spin to Win 🙌 🏆 – I love a good metaphor. Can I draw a parallel from life in business to on the bike? What's not to lik
#83 March 22, 2017 Nº83 ಠ_ಠ in lieu of taboo 🖕 😠 – “One of the key underlying principles of swear words is that they work as a sort of linguistic weapon
#82 March 14, 2017 Nº82 ヽ(´▽`)/ Made in the shade 🌴 🕶️ – I just read about Earl Tate. He is a volunteer crossing guard that has made generations of kids smile
#81 March 8, 2017 Nº81 t(-_-t) Advice when most needed is least heeded 🗣️ 🙉 – Learning the hard way & not listening when you should are common mistakes.Whether its burning 10
#80 March 1, 2017 Nº80 ( ^_^)o自自o(^_^ )Client Reliant 📈 📝 – February was a busy month! March will be even more bananas! 🍌 🍌 🍌I've been waxing poetic in these in
#79 February 22, 2017 Nº79 (Ծ‸ Ծ) When in doubt, lead it out 🐿️ 🚢 – It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past. - Carl vo
#78 February 15, 2017 Nº78 ༼ ༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ༽ Fail it 'til you nail it 🔨 – Sometimes you're the hammer & sometimes you're the fail.We don't always nail all our projects her
#77 February 8, 2017 Nº77 🚴🏻💨 If you slow down, you go down 🏃💨 – “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”Albert Einstein got a few
#76 February 1, 2017 Nº76 👌 When Nice Won't Suffice👌 – From large-scale strategic discussions to day-to-day office interactions, conflict avoidance can some
#75 January 25, 2017 Nº75 🗯️ from hair trigger to self-aware rigor 💭 – What. A. Week. Last time I mentioned Trump I found I had some supporters subscribed. I was elated. Ok
#74 January 18, 2017 Nº74 🎮 understanding the game we’re playing 🎮 – Spoiler alert: It’s not about outdoing someone. It’s about outdoing yourself. This talk is a rerun of
#73 January 11, 2017 Nº73 🕴️ Inhumanly Efficient 🕴️ – Time management gurus rarely stop to ask whether the task of merely staying afloat in the modern econ
#72 January 1, 2017 Nº72 🏋 Do More in 2017 🏋 – I've never been one for New Year resolutions. I have, however, always been one for constantly iterati
#71 December 22, 2016 🏆 Win When Others Win 🏆 Nº71– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Two kinds of winningAccording to Seth Godin,Some can only win when others lose.Others seek to win by
#70 December 15, 2016 ⏳ Put The Time In ⏳ Nº70– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – On Wednesday nights, I break my #earlytobedearlytoshred routine and take the time to dive into accumu
#69 December 9, 2016 🎉 Turning Two 🎉 Nº69– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – 🎉 We're celebrating tonight! 🎉 Come by our office & enjoy some delicious food by PintXo & re
#68 December 1, 2016 🙇 Be Kind, Unwind 🙇 Nº68– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – 🍴 You are what you eat.🍴 Well, unless you're stressed. We scarf cropboxes almost daily at the office
#67 November 24, 2016 🤔 Why Do Anything? 🙄 Nº67– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – The Gospel of Philip is one of the Gnostic Gospels, a text of New Testament apocrypha, dated to aroun
#66 November 17, 2016 ⛰ My rhyming skills got you climbing hills ⛰ Nº66 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻 – Anyone that knows me. Like, really knows me......knows I love #hashtags that rhyme:#earlytobedearlyto
#65 November 10, 2016 🔮 The Illusion of Truth 🔮 Nº65 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – "The techniques of propagandists work for good reason. Studies show that the more often we hear a sta
#64 November 3, 2016 💁 Helpfulness Is Your Best Asset 💁 Nº64 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – After our short lived experience doing high-concept strategy, I’ve realized that our simple process i
#63 October 27, 2016 🛠 usefulness not happiness 🙃 Nº63– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Party Alert: Next month, Twotone Consulting with be 2! If you're in Amsterdam, save the date of the e
#62 October 20, 2016 🛤 🚞 You only need a minute 🚞 🛤 Nº62– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – As some long time readers may recall, this isn't the first time I've penned an issue from a night tra
#61 October 13, 2016 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Start With Why ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Nº61 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Last week the team here at Twotone started with why. We sat down for an entire day with Ashley Usiski
#60 October 6, 2016 👉 It’s always your fault 👈 Nº60 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – This week I was inspired by a medium post that David Heinemeier Hansson recently wrote. If you don't
#59 September 29, 2016 💯 Passion is a Bad Word for Curiosity 💯 Nº59– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – I stumbled across a talk for a high schoolers by Paul Graham from 2005. He never actually gave it, be
#58 September 22, 2016 🙏 Reliable & Intensely Interested 🙏 Nº58– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – September is wrapping up with a bang! We're kicking off several new projects here at the office helpi
#57 September 15, 2016 ✍🏼 What do you even do bro? ✍🏼 Nº57– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – After a week out at Eurobike, then a beautiful wedding in Berlin & a soberingly strenuous yet ama
#56 September 1, 2016 🎙Live from Friedrichshafen🎙 Nº56– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Live from Friedrichshafen! Well Markdorf a few kilometers west of the Eurobike tradeshow. I'm here wi
#55 August 25, 2016 ⏰ Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule ⏰ Nº55– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – I rush to & from speculative meetings all the time. All the time. I love them so it's ok.But when
#54 August 18, 2016 🔊 EUROBIKE! 🔊 Nº54– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Who else is attending Eurobike this year? Let's meet up!🌅 I'm riding from Munich to the show with se
#53 August 11, 2016 💻🚲 @techbikers! 🚲💻 Nº53– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Inspiring solidarity and trust within our own team has been on my mind a bit recently. I tried to put
#52 August 4, 2016 🌴💆 🌴 Nº52– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Relax, you have 168 hours this week.ok, maybe not this week but every week does have 168 hours.wait,
#51 July 28, 2016 😴 💤 Nº51– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – more rest = more best.I wrote about how being tired isn't a badge of honor back in issue 39 but just
#50 July 21, 2016 🎉ONE YEAR ANNIVERSAY!🎉 Nº50– Cycling, Startups & Sales✌🏻️ – One year ago I started shipping weekly newsletters. I was inspired to do so by my friend Joachim Baan
#49 July 15, 2016 🎚🎶🎛 Nº49– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Ryan Aventis The Economist's senior economics editor and Free Exchange columnist asks Why do We Work
#48 July 7, 2016 🚲➕📈 Nº48– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Rolling resistance, sometimes called rolling friction or rolling drag, is the force resisting the mot
#47 June 28, 2016 🏙 🚲 & 🚵 Nº47– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Amsterdam has its first ever Bicycle Mayor!Initiated by CycleSpace in Amsterdam earlier this year, th
#46 June 20, 2016 🤖. Nº46– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Yesterday was Father's Day! One of my favorite things to do with my kids is share music with them. Sp
#45 June 14, 2016 🚴🏻💨 Nº45– Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Despite taking the short 40km route of yesterday's Retro Ronde van Vlanderen, I'm still sore from hau
#44 June 5, 2016 🚴🏻💨 Nº44 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another being is experiencing from within the othe
#43 May 28, 2016 🚴🏻💨 Nº43 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – 👋 from near Rodanthe, North Carolina in the Outer Banks! Still on 'vacation' touring up the East Coa
#42 May 21, 2016 🚴🏻💨 Nº42 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Live from Largo, Florida! Week one of keeping the rhythm on my family's quasi-vacation to the US is c
#41 May 15, 2016 🚴🏻💨 Nº41 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Good morning from 30,000ft en route to 🇺🇸 !Last week, after Budapest with Vulpine, I was in Stuttgar
#40 May 8, 2016 🚴🏻💨 Nº40 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – 40th Issue! Happy Mothers Day to all you Moms reading! : )I'm back on the weekend schedule due to tra
#39 April 29, 2016 🚴🏻💨 Nº39 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Jason Fried, Founder & CEO at Basecamp recently wrote a pretty opinionated Medium post saying tha
#38 April 22, 2016 🚴🏻💨 Nº38 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Almost broke the chain! I'm a few days over due from the regularly scheduled time but it is just my o
#37 April 12, 2016 🚴🏻💨 Nº37 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Staying organized is hard.I saw Noah Kagan speak at a Startup Riot in Atlanta I think. Dude is bombas
#36 April 5, 2016 🚴🏻💨 Nº36 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – "You might not be reading this. [...] And you might not be getting those other newsletters you subscr
#35 March 30, 2016 🚴🏻💨 Nº35 – Cycling, Startups & Sales ✌🏻️ – Mornings are an underutilized tool to aid productivity. (and radness, see my favorite self-invented h
#34 March 22, 2016 Twotone Amsterdam - Issue #34 – Always good to be back in Berlin. And even better during the Berlin Bike Show. This year was the best
#33 March 15, 2016 Nº33 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – I was inspired by this post about why every father should bring his toddler out for a mini adventure.
#32 March 9, 2016 Nº32 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – My legs are toast! I was in Nice over the weekend exploring with Far Ride Magazine. (more on that bel
#31 March 1, 2016 Nº31 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Uncertainty can be scary or inspiring. Some people thrive on it out the gate and other need some prac
#30 February 22, 2016 Nº30 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Last week really flew by!We onboarded our newest team member, Irina, with homemade cupcakes, co-hoste
#29 February 15, 2016 Nº29 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Every week I start with a blank screen. I pull sites, highlights and articles I've spotted throughout
#28 February 9, 2016 Nº28 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Sending this almost two days late and still not even unpacked after Rockit Summit in Chișinău, Moldov
#27 February 1, 2016 Nº27 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Making the most of your time is tough. Admittedly, I've been one to spend time looking for productivi
#26 January 24, 2016 Nº26 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Live from München at ISPO! Today was the first day of the show and it is massive. I spent quite a bit
#25 January 18, 2016 Nº25 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Welcome the 25th issue of this newsletter! Seems fitting to hit such a landmark only halfway into the
#24 January 11, 2016 Nº24 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Too legit to quit or is it too much grit to quit?Grit can matter more than IQ and this article explor
#23 January 5, 2016 Nº23 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Welcome to the 1st issue for for 2016! Last week was my 1st ride over 500km and today is the 1st issu
#22 December 28, 2015 Nº22 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Hello from a night train between Arnhem & Amsterdam. I'm on my way back home after a somewhat sno
#21 December 21, 2015 Nº21 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Live from Biberwier, Austria! Holidays at Twotone Consutling technically started Friday but we are st
#20 December 14, 2015 Nº20 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – This was a big week at the Twotone Amsterdam office. We now have enough desks to accommodate all 4 of
#19 December 7, 2015 Nº19 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – “We willingly accept the loss of concentration and focus, the division of our attention and the fragm
#18 November 30, 2015 🎉Birthday Edition 🎉 Nº18 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Thirty one and still having fun! My birthday was Friday and of course I snuck in a short ride.In fact
#17 November 23, 2015 Nº17 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Another late Sunday night shipment breaking the #earlytobedearlytoshred mantra. 0_oIt just feels so g
#16 November 17, 2015 Nº16 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – After a busy day yesterday coaching teams at Startup Weekend Utrecht I only managed to get the 2nd Sa
#15 November 9, 2015 Nº15 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – "If you have something interesting to say, send an e-mail. Otherwise don't send anything. It's really
#14 November 2, 2015 Nº14 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – 11pm on a Sunday blasting Pinkerton. It sounds the same as it did when I was 15. Maybe even better. W
#13 October 27, 2015 Nº13 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Proud weeks over here at Twotone HQ! Two weeks into working with two new part time colleagues: Niels
#12 October 20, 2015 Nº12 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Back on the weekly rhythm with my newsletter but barely! ; ) On the heels of another action packed we
#11 October 12, 2015 Nº11 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – shhh... I skipped a week somewhat unintentionally but I'm back on track with my Sunday evening shipme
#10 September 28, 2015 Nº10 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Already two days into a week long trip & making sure to get my Revue out. Stoked! The past two da
#9 September 21, 2015 Nº9 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – This past week went quick! It kicked of with a @SaleshackerAMS workshop with Tobias & Jorge at Ro
#8 September 13, 2015 Nº8 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – TWO YEARS. My family and I first came to Amsterdam two years ago and not much has remained the the sa
#7 September 6, 2015 Nº7 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – It was a busy week back the office packed with awesome meetings but mired with bad weather though tha
#6 August 30, 2015 Nº6 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Still recovering from #eurobike, I started penning this week's update on the night train back home th
#5 August 21, 2015 Nº5 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Keeping a rhythm is hard. Especially in the summer ; ) Here is to keeping up a new habit until it b
#4 August 13, 2015 Nº4 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Happy Thursday! I'm 24hrs back on the ground here in Holland & shipping this more than a few days
#3 August 3, 2015 Nº3 – Cycling, Startups & Sales – Hello from sunny Florida! I added a dusty subscription list from an old Mailchimp list when I first m
#2 July 26, 2015 Vol. 2 – Cycling, Startups, Sales & Radness Every Sunday – Hi there! Thanks for tuning in again! Up this week is a new standard format across these categories:
#1 July 20, 2015 Vol. 1 Cycling & Startup Updates Every Sunday – Hi there! Thanks for tuning in! Up this week are hot off the press updates about @WahooFitness &