We write things down
the second time around

around2 began as a shared document between friends who kept telling each other the same things twice — once while it was happening, and once, better, months later. The second telling was always the useful one. It had lost the panic and kept the detail.

So that is the whole editorial policy: nothing gets published while it is still exciting. Health, Food, Lifestyle, Travel and Money — 5 desks, no experts, and a standing rule that anyone who recommends a thing has lived with it for at least a season.