The launch column. A note from the editor on what AlphaMode is for, what it is not, what we will and will not publish, and why the men’s lifestyle web needed another magazine. The first piece in a recurring weekly column.
Light Phone, Punkt, Nokia. I lived with all three for thirty days each. The pitch is "your attention back." The reality is more interesting, more compromised, and — for most people reading this — almost certainly not the answer to whatever they think it's the answer to.
I spent a decade calling running boring, painful, and pointless. Then I started doing it differently, and now I'm the annoying guy at dinner who casually mentions his morning miles. Here's what changed and how.
I've quit four jobs. Three of them went well. One of them did not, and I'm still dealing with the fallout from the one I botched. Here's everything I learned about leaving gracefully, even when you desperately want to leave ungracefully.
The difference between a good backyard party and a legendary one is usually a yard game and a competitive friend group. Here are the games that consistently turn casual hangs into events people talk about for months.