The Insider: Courtney Boyd Myers

Courtney Boyd Myers knows all the coolest shit on the internet, and rightfully so—she’s the East Coast editor of The Next Web, an Amsterdam-based technology news site. She’s also just one of those hyper plugged-in girls who’s a joy to be around. Here, she reveals all. Or, at least some. —jiayi

Q: Where do you hail from?

A: I grew up in the Connecticut suburbs—and on Metro North. I used to ask my mom for twenty dollars to go to downtown for dinner and a movie. Then I’d sneak into the city for a night out with my friends. If I could catch the 12:17 AM train from Grand Central, I could make it home by curfew. 

Q: What are you going to be wearing all fall?       

A: Scarves! My acupuncturist said to always wear one. Otherwise you wind up cramping your shoulders because of the cold—which significantly strains your neck. I visited Istanbul a few years ago and bought a bunch of beautiful silk scarves. I have a purple floral one that’s hanging together by strings. 

Q: Name one fashion thing that really makes your skin crawl.

A: Cargo shorts. To quote Superbad: “Nobody has gotten a hand job in cargo shorts since ‘nam!” 

Q: Besides The Next Web, what is some of your required reading?  

A: I love Percolate’s daily emails, which brew up links that frequent my social streams. And I check notcot.org every day. Jean Aw always finds the coolest stuff.

Q: What’s an app that’s rocking your world right now?

A: Tapl.io (pronounced tap-lee-oh)—it’s a browser extension that automatically shows you relevant links when you visit a restaurant page on Yelp or the like. It makes searching for and picking out restaurants so much easier.

We’ve talked to 15 more people nearly as cool as Courtney—go read about them, too.