Review: Give and Take
In the world of Adam Grant's Give and Take , people can be divided into roughly 3 camps: * Takers, who look to take from others for their own benefit, or at least see success...
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You Don’t Deserve a House in the Bay Area
Time to check-in on the Bay Area housing crisis in 2016. ... Yep, still as bad as ever. The latest controversy is that, contrary to silly ideas back in 2015 that two working professionals could afford...
Friendship Available for Rent
I came across an interesting article on a few lesser known social services in Japan: The Incredibly True Story of Renting a Friend in Tokyo On the surface, it sounds and feels like another “Japanese culture is weird” observation from the land of the rising sun. Between the otaku and social shut-ins and perverts, there’...
Succumbing to Social Media for News Feeds
I’m throwing in the white towel. After trying to hold out for what seems like years to my RSS reader and feeds, I’m moving most of my news sourcing to Twitter. I still...
The Relic of Postage Stamps in an Digital Era
My toddler was playing around in my office over the weekend, and ripped a book off of my bookshelf. It turned out to be an old postage stamp collection album. When I started the book...
The Magic of Communication
My dad just forwarded me the latest family photo email. It's something that parents like to do. And as I watch the email crash my phone from sheer payload size, I began to wonder: why not just connect via Facebook? Or link to a private Dropbox, Flickr, or some other account with a...