Today I’m feeling optimistic, and I haven’t had that spirt here for a very long time. Let’s start with France banning private jets: “As France Swelters, Private Jets Come Under Attack – Politicians are proposing regulating or banning flights by such planes after a summer of extreme heat and soaring energy prices prompted growing calls […]

Logan Ury is a behavioral scientist turned dating coach, and the author of the book “How To Not Die Alone.” As the Director of Relationship Science at the dating app Hinge, she leads a research team dedicated to helping people find love. After studying psychology at Harvard, Logan ran Google’s behavioral science team—the Irrational Lab. Her […]

Hyundai was a joke. The maker of the cheapest cars with the oldest technology. The only thing that you could buy that was worse was a Yugo. But Yugo tanked, and Hyundai and its sister company Kia improved and then thrived over the ensuing thirty years they have played in the American market. And not […]

RE: PANDEMIC CHANGES Travel to Europe lately? Essentially cashless with the occasional exception such as a mom and pop convenience store.  For years Europe accepted credit cards at the table when tabbing out at a restaurant.  What took the U.S. so long? We are not the progressive society we posit to ourselves and the world. […]