Author Archives: jeffkinsey

I am violently pried from my zero degree sleeping bag at the crack of dawn.  The culprit is a gust of wind strong enough to blow the blockaded door of the storm shelter open, and along with it, bring several shovel-fulls of driving snow into my quickly devolving reality [What may look easy one minute could […]

Agility is the ability to be nimble in real time. In a physical sense, as conditions and circumstances change (which they always do), how quickly are we able to respond – appropriately – to those changes?  My winter passion is backcountry snowboarding, otherwise known as splitboarding. One of my prized possessions is a locally made […]

I had an amazing insight while mountain biking the other day … when in the midst of dangerous circumstances, our thoughts just get in the way.  I realized that when I’m riding fast down a steep, twisty trail, I don’t hardly think at all. I’m moving too fast and there are just too many decisions […]

Now that the snow has mostly melted off the trails at 8,500′, I can finally ride my mountain bike again. To say riding a bike is important to me is an understatement. Except for the Colorado winters we moved into 15 years ago, I’ve probably ridden my bike a couple days a week for nearly […]

I had just spent the week living out of an Airbnb off the Metro line for Denver Startup Week. My actual home is an hour away, high in the Rocky Mountains west of Boulder, but I didn’t want to commute in everyday for the early breakfast sessions and evening cocktail hours and was looking forward […]

‘Western’ school of thought: “Panic! Panic! Panic! Everything is out of control!” ‘Eastern’ school of thought: “Relax… Everything is out of control.”  How is it that there can be two, such different reactions to the same circumstances? We first need to come to grips with how our minds work: 1. Something happens (i.e., circumstances) 2. […]