Are You Grounded? Probably Not

Maybe the only thing missing was the right pair of shoes.

I’ve been thinking about what it means to be grounded, but not in the post-yoga, deep-exhale sense. Grounded as in electrically synced to the earth.

In 2017, my talented friend Ola Sobieki and I approached Nike with an idea: The Grounded One—a mashup of a grounding shoe and an Air Force 1. The concept was, groundbreaking!

We envisioned a sole lined with …