Who is David Christopher Lee?
David is a photographer of 27 years, known for celebrity portrait work shot on a Leica M11 in natural light, and a publisher: Editor in Chief of David's Guide and publisher of The Biohack. He is 6 foot 0, about 172 pounds, and based in downtown Los Angeles. Walking is not a challenge he performs for content. It is how his days are built, and the volume came first; the site came after, because the log kept producing numbers nobody else was publishing.
How does testing work here?
Simple rules, printed so brands and readers can hold the site to them:
- Everything is walked in. Shoes, insoles, socks, walking pads, and trackers are tested at real volume, 20,000 steps a day and up, not unboxed and admired.
- Mileage is logged. Every tested product has a start date and a running mileage total. Rankings use cost per 1,000 miles, because a cheap shoe that dies at 300 miles is not cheap.
- Wear is photographed. David shoots the wear at mileage milestones, so readers see the outsole, the belt, and the upper, not a press photo.
- No verdict is for sale. Brands may supply product for the mileage log. They do not buy conclusions, and supplied product is disclosed on the review.
Testing and affiliate disclosure
Some links on this site are affiliate links. If a reader buys through one, the site may earn a commission at no extra cost to the reader. Affiliate links are added only after a product has been tested at volume, never before, and never on a product that failed testing. Sponsored content, when it runs, follows the same rule as David's other publications: the testing verdict is not part of the deal. If a claim on this site is wrong, the correction runs on the same page.
Contact
Testing submissions, corrections, data questions, and licensing for route photography: contact details publish here at launch. (Placeholder: contact route to be added with the domain decision.) For David's photography and editorial work, see David's Guide and dclee.net.