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Don’t Be Offended
My friend Sebastian has a great way of asking simple questions that create good discussions. We were talking about someone getting offended at something and he asked the not-quite-rhetorical question: why do people get offended? You and I, he said, never get offended. Being offended seems to have become a national, if not international, pastime.…
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The Thin Line Between Obligation and Opportunity
I’ve been really excited to work on Cruise Sheet recently. I’ve made some big strides and am now an actual cruise agency rather than a web site that creates affiliate links. It’s still fairly similar, but now I can control the experience the whole way through and the increase in revenue makes it look more…
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Every Day is Christmas
I remember waking up as a kid on Christmas, heavy with anticipation. Waking up early never came naturally to me, but usually I was up before seven in the morning. It wasn’t just that good things were about to happen to me, it was that those good things were also surprises. As I woke up…
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Contrarian Thinking
I live a little bit in the ghetto. It doesn’t feel dangerous, I like my neighbors, and the location is perfect, but in Las Vegas this is known as a terrible area. Even after being pleasantly surprised at how nice it was when I saw the place (I bought it sight unseen), I was worried…
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Arbitrary Rules
February and March I’m going to spend half in San Francisco and half in Vegas. So I’m buying a bunch of cheap tickets to ping-pong back and forth between the two cities. As I booked these flights I thought about how it became “a thing”. Two months, two cities, back and forth. Those two months…
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Back to Bare Metal
It’s been a crazy few years. I was going to say few weeks, then few months, and then I thought about it and realized that there’s no reasonable starting point more recent than a few years ago. Since then I’ve been traveling non-stop and have had very little stability. If you rarely travel, you might…
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The Upside to Generosity
Today we went to a gelato place called Gelatology. The owner, Desyree, used to have a place called Art of the Flavor, which was shut down under suspicious circumstances. From outward appearances it seemed as though the landlords kicked her out and then continued a business under the same name. I was excited to take…
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Sure Enough to Plant Evidence
I’m almost done watching Making of A Murderer. I don’t know how it ends yet, but it’s not much of a spoiler to say that it opens with a story about a guy, Steven Avery, who was wrongly accused of rape and served eighteen years for it. The evidence was only a shade more substantial…
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When The Taxi Driver Didn’t Rip Us Off
Our ship docked in Dubai today. Very often the ship docks so close to downtown that you can walk, but sometimes you have to take a bus or taxi into the city center. The Dubai port, on the other hand, is pure insanity. We got out and found ourselves in a giant parking lot with…
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Zai Jian 2015
Well, there goes another year. Every time a new year rolls around, my initial impression of the past year is that it was pretty uneventful compared to previous years. Then I go through my blog archives and think about what has happened, and I realize that it has been, again, a pretty monumental year. First…
