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Choices

Every time I return to the United States I observe something new about my country that formerly remained out of sight. Since we arrived to Seattle I have been thinking about Malcolm Gladwell’s TED talk, the one about the 20 types of Ragu spaghetti sauce. The talk is a celebration …

On Freedom and Familiarity

Freedom A couple days ago I wrote that “these days” we have too many choices and that, perhaps, those choices impede our happiness because each decision carries the heavy uncertainty of all the other options we ruled out. From the thoughtful and meaningful emails I received afterwards, it appears that …

Market Viraling, Part I

I wrote this a few weeks back … and then forgot about it. Maybe you know the feeling: It’s 10 a.m., for …