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A New Context for Coffee, Presented by My Karuna

According to the Huffington Post, Americans consume 400 million cups of coffee per day on average. The overwhelming majority of this coffee consumption comes from standard k-cup pods or pot brewed bla... read more

Want to do an Agile Transformation? Don’t. Focus on Flow, Quality, Happiness, Safety and Value

I was standing in line at a coffee shop, thinking about flow, as I often find myself doing when waiting in line. I reached for my phone to pass ... a pattern in another context. That said, I believe t... read more

Detachment and dreaming in 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' by Ottessa Moshfegh

With a hunger for detachment and direction, the complicated unnamed narrator of Ottessa Moshfegh’s new ... of “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” is focused on supine inaction, realizing that only deep s... read more

Mailbag: Wrapping Up Wimbledon, and the Case For a Fifth-Set Tiebreak at 12-12 in the Slams

Over coffee this ... along to you here my new blog post. It is on the reversal-of-aging research on Transcendental Meditation and how it is significant to the tennis player's performance and overall h... read more

God’s Crowdsource in East Harlem

If you feel your experience is lacking here, you can head on over to Mount Moriah Church—they have a gospel choir just across the hall—but just remember, they won’t serve you glazed donuts with fair t... read more

Gratitude: The Antidote to a Fear-Driven Life

I was married to my high school sweetheart ... which she defines as the simple act of noticing new things. In an article on leadership, she says, "Noticing puts us in the present, makes us sensitive t... read more

This Doctor’s Business is Thriving Thanks to Radio

Back in 1995, our stations partnered with Tuesday Productions to conduct one of their “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee” jingle presentations ... WalMart was going to do them. I was moving my office into ... read more

It's a 'new day' for diversity and inclusion in Howard County schools

They check email on their phones and sip coffee, some asking others in the ... It’s the first step in a three-year process these Howard County Public Schools educators are embarking on to become a new ... read more

George Chuvalo’s volunteer army keeps fighting for the champ

In November of 2015, Mitch, as power of attorney, signed his father’s divorce application because evidence of Chuvalo’s short-term memory loss was already present ... ve always called my dad a working ... read more

No, your phone is not always listening to you

Your smartphone is probably on the coffee table or tucked away in your ... Furthermore, keyword detection is useless at providing context. How often do you think people realistically say “I want to bu... read more

For refugees in Kenya, an education in hope

Opportunity knocks rarely here, but a once-obscure New Hampshire university has made it the idealistic ... “I need to be free, that would help, for my children to be free,” Loum said. “I want them to ... read more

Coffee shop inspires sculpture created for art museum exhibit

You might not look at coffee stirrers the same way again after viewing a new exhibit at the Spartanburg Art Museum ... then transport it to a presentation space, the space where my work is presented i... read more