How I Fell In Love. For the First Time. For Forever, I Hope.
Something changed in me this year. I know, because I was on the phone with a friend a few weeks ago. I was telling her about all the work I’m putting in with Stry and Very Quotatious and the...
View ArticleWhy Does It Take So Long For United Airlines To Come Up With New Menu Ideas?...
It takes about 12 months for @united to create and then actually get a new meal choice on board #SMD4 — The Points Guy (@thepointsguy) November 15, 2012 Yes, you read that right: It takes a full year...
View ArticleThe Might of Mo.
“Slump? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hitting.” — Yogi Berra Over the years, I’ve developed a sixth sense for certain things during sporting events. Like many sports fans, I know exactly when to...
View ArticleThe Questions We Ask When We Want To Remember.
“Time will magnify whatever you do. So even in the smallest matters, do what is right. — Ralph Marston 39 days ago, Hurricane Sandy hit New York City. It came. It flooded. But now the city —...
View ArticleYour One Swing.
There’s this one thing that my Uncle Billy said to me about two weeks ago. It was after my grandma’s funeral. We were sitting on the couch, watching the game, eating chopped liver. We were talking...
View ArticleWhat Should I Do With My Life?
There are times when I look around at myself and the life I have — 26, working at a rapidly-growing company, building cool stuff with a really awesome team — and I manage to convince myself that I am...
View ArticleForget About My Money. What Are You Doing To Get Me Back My Time?
When I’m traveling, it’s the inefficiencies that really kill me. I know that travel is going to cause some headaches. There are going to be lines at security, and flight delays happen. I get that. But...
View ArticleWhy Does Time Move Fast Some Days, But Slow On Others?
Four years ago this week, I wrote a post about something I didn’t quite understand: The idea that time was simultaneously moving really fast and really slow. I wrote: Fast. It’s moving so damn fast....
View ArticleStuff I Didn’t Know Was OK When I Started My First Job.
It’s okay to say, “No.” It’s okay to say, “I don’t know.” It’s okay to be wrong, too — sometimes your intuition points you one way, or the data points you one way, and you end up being wrong. Happens....
View ArticleThings Change Quickly.
I’m just old enough to remember the artifacts of the recent past. I remember computers with MS-DOS and floppy disks. I remember the first time I saw an iMac in my elementary school’s computer lab. I...
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