☀️ Sunlight for Sale? A startup proposes to "sell" sunlight at night. Mirrors in space direct concentrated sunbeams to spots on Earth. 🌍 The company – Reflect Orbital – launched with a goal to  power solar farms at night. It wants to “enable 24/7 renewable energy.” A mock

🤔 Dreams deferred... You wanted to be a pro athlete. Or maybe an astronaut. Did it pan out? A survey this week from media company The Hustle reveals a snapshot from the American workforce. ➡️ The chart shows (sadly) that most dreams did not come true. Athlete was the top

🔈 Instant Podcast tool Add a URL and get a podcast file in minutes... that is the premise with a new Google tool. I gave it a try this week. The result was impressive, despite the fact that the bots mispronounced my last name. 😄 Give it a listen below. It’s a 4-minute

☢️ AI goes Nuclear Three Mile Island may be coming back to life. This is thanks to Microsoft, which needs copious electricity to power AI. ⚡ The Pennsylvania plant is famous for a 1979 meltdown (the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history). Demand for power in the age of AI has

📖 New Book! Last month, I wrote a book. “Extreme Parenting” is 250 pages of anecdotes and advice on how to raise kids in an outdoorsy home. The content was culled from my experience raising kids to bike, hike, ski, and climb. It took me 5 minutes to "write." The 250-page book

🔈 New Podcast: Media Trends Proud to tell my story this week on the Smooth Operator Podcast! From roots as a climber and outdoor junkie, to an executive at AllGear Digital, it’s been an adventure. Host Blake Saunders unpacks my journey as a writer for The New York Times who

I won a meme contest 😄 Last month, I threw my hat in the ring for FMTC's annual meme competition. The challenge was to make light of the affiliate commerce industry... in meme form. Are these funny? If you are an affiliate nerd like me, maybe you will get a laugh.

🚨 Google gone too far… This is a wild tale of SEO subterfuge, corporate glut, and the monopolistic mindset Google has when it comes to content and media companies. Author Josh Tyler reveals the strange scene at Google’s Creator Event, held this week. A daylong working session

🏛️ GearJunkie goes to Washington Off-the-record meetings and access to an inner circle of policymakers gave our editor perspective on how the outdoors is bracketed in D.C. Editor-in-chief Adam Ruggiero traveled with Adam Cramer of the Outdoor Alliance. Over a few days, the duo

AllGear Digital is expanding into retail media through a partnership with Backcountry, allowing the outdoor media company to sell ad inventory across Backcountry's ecommerce platform and share revenue. bit.ly/42rqa4X