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Who cares about All Stars, let’s talk Rule 5 and Futbol

The All Star game was two nights ago. It is a mockery of baseball and I will not watch it until we have a new commissioner that realizes that it should not decide which league has home field in the World Series. The whole thing was made boring and self-serving by ESPN in the mid [...]

The Quarter Bar Baffler

Quarter Bar & Cafe on 20th st and 5ave in Park Slope is a smallish bar with a row of shallow, perpendicular booths along its back wall. I’ve sat in those booths many times enjoying typical bar booth confabs. Since my friend began working as barback, however, I’ve spent more time at the bar.
David Moo, [...]

On Human Resources

This vintage IBM ad got me thinking about how we thought and think about human resources, human capital. I have already touched on this idea from another angle in my post Right Brained Expressionism where I argue that the discussion about modern art is too academic and ignores the spiritual. In the context of business [...]