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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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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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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I Have Not Been To The Gym In Nine Years

Okay, I’ve done physical activities since then, but I haven’t really gone to the gym to “work out” more than three times since high school.
It never really made sense to me. Don’t get me wrong I like sports and physical activity, but if you’re going to do physical activity I think you should actually do [...]

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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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