How Do Coffee Shops Stay in Business?

Think about it. Coffee is not that expensive, and people just lay around their shops most of the day nursing one serving of coffee while they sit at the small table that they make into their command center with a computer, books, cell phone, and often, other weird stuff.
And yet, rents in New York are [...]

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Planet Earth & Iguazo

Last night I was watching Discovery Channel’s amazing “Planet Earth” series. Mrod is also obsessed with it. They were surveying some of the most beautiful rivers and waterfalls in the world. They focused a few minutes on Iguazo Falls on the border of Brazil and Argentina.
As I watched the wide-angle shot of the falls I [...]

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Should You Hold the Elevator Door?

I think that it’s a telling commentary on your character. It’s an impossible catch 22. The more willing your are to hold the door, the more likely you will get late in getting to where you are going. However, when we rush in and quickly push the close door button, even as you see somebody [...]

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The Thin Red Line

This is a clip from my favorite movie. I guess it’s in many ways, and in different ways, my theme song for life.
It has some amazing actors, amazing cinematography, and a great story.
It’s sort of an existential and life searching version of Saving Private Ryan (which was also good but not [...]

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Words to Live By

“[I]t’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst …
And then I remember … to relax, and not try to hold on to it. And then [...]

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Defeat or Strategic Retreat?

That’s the new philosophical question I have recently been pondering with the help of my partners in crime. Oftentimes we can’t go for gold on something and have to settle for something less than the absolute ideal, but when is it a defeat and when is it a strategic retreat?
Some people like our esteemed President [...]

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Do People Walk Too Slow?

It’s crazy.
I think if you stay in New York too long it slowly destroys your patience for even the smallest transgressions by your fellow residents. It’s that person fiddling with their metro card to get on the bus, that person on the subway who waits to the last second to get off and didn’t get [...]

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