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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Words Every American Should Think Hard About

“A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.”
- Aimé Césaire

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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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Fight the Power: Office Space

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Snow Shoveling as Societal Analogy

A week or so ago I was walking back home. I saw a man shoveling out his big pickup truck from the snow bank. It had obviously been there for awhile. As he shoveled out from under a few feet of snow he would then throw the snow into the middle of the street.
He could [...]

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