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Peter Flax

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Los Angeles, Santa Monica
As seen in: The Red Bulletin, Medium, MSN, Wirecutter, Yahoo Life, The Guardian, Wheel Talk, Aol, Los Angeles Times, Red Bull, The Hollywood Reporter and
EIC @ Red Bulletin; Past Features Editor @ THR & EIC @ Bicycling ☞Before: Runner's World & Backpacker ☞ Committed to cycling, longform and a diet rich in gluten
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A thief took $50,000 worth of bikes; the cops didn't care

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By Peter Flax Verified
| Escape Collective Verified
by Peter Flax Jun 2, 2026 More from Peter Flax + courtesy Hong Quan, Andy Cunningham The Bluetooth speaker was gone. That was the first thing Hong Quan noticed. That’s like dark comedy now, given that it was a freebie from a tech conference and he was seconds away from discovering a painful theft that would set off weeks of frustration and scheming and a very strange semi-happy ending.
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Riding the Alameda Corridor

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By Peter Flax Verified
| Alta Journal Verified
I am 35 feet under Compton, waiting for a freight train. Thick shafts of late-day sunshine stream into the tunnel and the air is still. But after a few minutes of serenity, a pinpoint of light appears in the distance and grows as the tracks begin to hum. Then, an 8,140-foot-long train towed by two Union Pacific locomotives barrels past at 40 miles per hour.
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I Spent 20 Years Hating LinkedIn. Here’s What Finally Changed My Mind.

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By Peter Flax Verified
| Inc. Verified
A look at why the platform is now the primary marketplace for networking and career discovery in 2026. I’m just going to be blunt: I always detested LinkedIn. I created an account way back in 2006, but I basically never used it. I know that many professional people are ambivalent about the platform and view it cautiously as a necessary evil (while others are addicted to it as a branding megaphone), but I actually found it loathsome and useless.
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