I don’t think I’ve ever liked the New Year. At least not the January 1 Gregorian one. It arrives ponderously, weighed down with all the expectations, anxiety, and guilt. The inexorable feeling that time marches on compressed into a single day. So we clink glasses.… Read More
Go stand in a line. Pick a line made up of individuals rather than groups (think: order/checkout line at the grocery or cafe, not so much passport control at the airport). Now take a moment to look around before you fiddle with your phone. It’s… Read More
What is a Lemon? For most English-speakers, the word conjures up images of an oblong, thin-skinned, sour, yellow fruit. Squeezed over salads, sliced into wheels, crucial to a lemonade. Ask for “limón” in Mexico however and you’ll be given the round, green fruit we often… Read More
“Trust but verify”. It’s a phrase I heard working with sales teams in tech cos. though I didn’t realize until later that the proverb has Russian origins and proliferated during the Cold War. No surprise seeing as most Western sales teams I’ve encountered have a… Read More
It was undoubtedly a flex. Running down to the market just across the street, buying six oysters before the vishandel closed at 4 PM, speed-walking back to my apartment, and shucking them around 7 PM when I inevitably had to hop on a Zoom meeting… Read More
The Errant Diner 