Category: Place

Canoe

You are not competing against your partner. It’s a canoe! You’re both succeeding or neither of you are. Find out how to succeed together.  You can paddle harder if you want, and you will probably want to. But that won’t help. In fact it will hinder progress. Paddle better not harder.  Physical power is one […]

“NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER rent to her”: The found art of negative Airbnb reviews

We needed to flee when Hurricane Florence landed on our home town of Wilmington, NC, last month, and came upon this unhappy but perfect exchange in our searches—a dismissive Airbnb review of a cottage on farmland near Odessa, FL, a sharp reply from the host, and then an assertive personal review about the renter herself […]