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The Board Shorts Gave Us The Edge This private island in the Bahamas, is a Disney Cruise Line port of call. In answer to the question: "When Is The Copy Better Than The Original?" This would be it. The sand has been sifted to a fine white powder. The mosquitoes  are nowhere to be found. The water is crystal clear and turquoise blue. Paradise found. Escape TO reality. I am not talking about staged authenticity, like my visit to Papette Tahiti. Most designers spend their time creating shopping malls. Re-creating the island paradise, however, is admirable. Once used as a stop for drug smugglers.Think “Snow White” or “White Snow” . There is an airstrip on the island, but it is no longer in regular use nor maintained (I shot some video on July 4,2012, a previous visit) .It's unusual isolation becomes, in its own way, a paradise-somewhere in the Bahamas. It is not Gilligan's Island but it has also been used for filming; the beach where Tom Hanks first encounter...

Mexico · Cozumel · Cabo San Lucas · Hotel @nyware Foreign Land I Am an AmeriCAN, Not an AmeriCAN'T Cozumel, Cabo, money, language, guacamole, jazz, and the discovery that the most important geography is the three-pound YOUniverse carried between the ears. See Full Image Cozumel Cabo San Lucas Sea of Cortez Hotel @nyware Perception Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The foreign land was not Mexico. It was the version of reality that appeared when the old assumptions stopped working. I liked writing about Mexico. I just did not like the paperwork, so I painted Cabo instead—a second chance to make a first impressionist painting. Self-employment was sometimes made harder by a difficult boss. “I am not a busine...

Grand Cayman · Fifty Shades of Blue Tour Grand Cayman Always Delivers Partly cloudy with a chance of paradise. Clear water, red snapper, helicopter rotors, offshore mythology—and another island that looked simple until you stayed awake inside it. Caribbean Return Paradise Weather Red Snapper Stingray Archive Sunny Place / Shady Stories See Full Image Show Story Grand Cayman, like the postman, always delivers. The package changes. The address does not: fifty shades of blue, a little theater, and one more reason to distrust a postcard. The island arrived first as color. Water, sky, shallows and distance kept rearranging the same blue until the eye gave up trying to name it. Paradise was easy to photograph. The harder work was seeing what else had been delivered. Blue Air Fish Finance Return 01 Ordinary world · forecast Partly cloudy with a chance of paradise. A stopover can be enough when the island ...

The Call / Decision Architecture / The Next Book Heads, I Win a Lot Asymmetrical Bets Find the bets where the downside is survivable, the upside can change the category of your life, and repetition makes probability your ally. Do not judge the bet by the next card. Judge it by the architecture of the decision. Capped downside Uncapped upside Repetition Smart friction Ed Reif 3.0 Hear the Brief Read Chapter One See Video Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The Brief Choose the table before you blame the cards. Most people are playing the wrong game with impressive discipline. They optimize the tails, spend years making a survivable loss slightly more survivable,...