The best Brooklyn longtent of 2015

Longtent. We know it well and love it. It goes to the heart of what we do at Technical.ly, which is tell stories.
Usually they’re about technology and cities, hopefully with new information, and sometimes with analysis. But the best stories are sometimes hard to tell in a 400-word post full of GIFs. For that content, we have to go longer.
Fortunately there is no shortage of interesting people doing cool things in Brooklyn.
There’s the startup founder who was nearly eaten by a grizzly as a young man fishing in Alaska. There’s the 24-year-old who shot for $30,000 on Kickstarter and raised half a million overnight. And there’s the gray-haired artist down in Red Hook who’s quietly made several dozen music-playing robots over the years, which he’s placed around an empty church.
So park this in a tab and delve in when you wish.

1. The fascinating story of adventure and risk behind ‘crowdspeaking platform’ Thunderclap

Before finding success with his latest startup, Dave Cascino worked odd jobs, fished in Alaska and barely escaped hungry grizzly bears.