Irving Link was in his eighties, sitting in what had long since become his chair, poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel on a weekday afternoon. He was playing gin rummy in a perfectly fitted tropical-weight suit. He had been playing gin rummy in more or less this spot since 1950. The staff knew his name.… Continue reading Paradise Found
Month: April 2026
One Envelope
“Then I’m going down the steps, and my wife calls up, ‘Where are you going?’ I say, ‘Well, I’m going to go buy an envelope.’ And she says, ‘You’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.’ And I say, ‘Hush.’… Continue reading One Envelope
Show Up
Business travel means airports. Hotels. Conference rooms. It’s a chain restaurant where the conversation doesn’t always click and the dinner sometimes feels like it might never end. And at the end of it, you’re in a hotel room, away from your family, wondering what your kids did today. I’m not telling you this to scare… Continue reading Show Up
the counterfactual 