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Sitting here on Christmas Eve, wrapping up work email, thankful for a few key things from this otherwise bullshit year.
Twitter is mostly work for me. So, here, I want to shoutout the extremely rad group of people I get to work with.
A sappy list, in no particular order:
Twitter is mostly work for me. So, here, I want to shoutout the extremely rad group of people I get to work with.
A sappy list, in no particular order:
Dane Cash wrote almost 500 stories for CT in 2020. 500! There are only 365 days in a year, and lots of those are weekends, and that number is just crazy. @danecash kicks ass.
Dave @ShoddyCycling's dyslexic-ass copy makes me laugh more than anyone else’s writing on the site, because I literally CAN’T read it (and sometimes can’t understand it) unless I do so in his voice. His drive to make people happy is why I love his work so much.
Two years ago @IainTreloar worked largely behind the scenes at CT. Now he’s one of the best writers in cycling, with a voice that has come to define us. This Junior Reporter has some talent, folks.
I’ve never met anyone able to juggle work/life balance so impressively as @angryasian, even though I’m sure he feels like he’s been dropping flaming pins all over the place this year. You have not, James. Nothing is on fire. He’s the absolute best at what he does.
Everything @abimickey touches is suddenly better-organized, more creative, altered for the better. Her ability to shift our perspectives on almost everything has fundamentally changed CT this year.
As if I wasn’t already keenly aware how much we all rely on @climbingcyclist to keep CT from falling to pieces, he went on vacation this month and really drove the point home. Come back Matt. We are not very good at this without you.
@TourDeJose has become one of cycling’s best interviewers. She connects with subjects quickly and naturally, and we get pieces that could have come from no other writer. Plus she’s Dutch as heck so there is never, ever any bullshitting about.
I think Phil Golston is too smart to be on Twitter. Phil is the best. Someone near England swing over and tell him for me.
Sometimes I ask @Dave_Rome to do something and he tells me to fuck right off like the idiot I am. I can’t stress how valuable that is. Oh, and he drove more traffic to CT than anyone else on staff, by a lot.
Story-sense is incredibly difficult to teach. It’s that feeling good journalists get when they know something is important, even if they’re not sure why yet. We hired @ronanmclaughlin two months ago, he was not a reporter previously, but he’s got it. Whatever IT is.
Oh, man, do I have stories about @fedora_mike. But I'll keep it PG. He went to TV, and learned things of the Social Internets I don’t understand. We lured him back and I’m so glad we did.
I once flew across the world to get a parma with @vanbera. What else needs to be said?
Oh, and he's pretty key to keeping our lights on.
Oh, and he's pretty key to keeping our lights on.
Thus ends my non-exhaustive list of amazing @cyclingtips people.
Thanks for reading, listening, watching, commenting, sharing, calling us on our nonsense and cheering us when we get it right.
Merry Christmas
Thanks for reading, listening, watching, commenting, sharing, calling us on our nonsense and cheering us when we get it right.
Merry Christmas
