Category Archives: Living in the World Today

Who really wants to write a check?

Posted on June 16, 2016 by markkolier

My daughter who moved to the Midwest earlier this year is moving into a new apartment and was asked to provide a check. She’d only written a few and had to ask ‘how do I write a check again?’   While … Continue reading →

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The DMV is still where you’d rather not be

Posted on March 10, 2016 by markkolier

As the nation that invented the driving of automobiles, any licensed driver feels a chill go up his or her spine when they have to consider a trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles.   I’ve been going there now for … Continue reading →

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Self-driving cars will hasten the death of the road trip

Posted on January 28, 2016 by markkolier

I just finished the first leg of a drive (1,200 miles) of what will be a quasi-road trip since I intend to stay in one place for two weeks. Like many of my peers way back at age 16 in … Continue reading →

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Ah to be in Paris – this Thanksgiving

Posted on November 19, 2015 by markkolier

As I have posted about both that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and also about whether there is Thanksgiving in China, ever since the unfolding of the terrible events in Paris last Friday, I’ve been thinking I wish I could … Continue reading →

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If you don’t want to be happy you’ll get there

Posted on September 24, 2015 by markkolier

Having written this post nearly five years ago, I still I say this often. It’s no less true today than it ever has been.  I never intended to suggest being blindly positive and ignoring reality in the face of adversity … Continue reading →

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Mobile technology continues to flatten the world

Posted on August 6, 2015 by markkolier

Have you ever met a billionaire? I have met a few and in somewhat casual circumstances. No I am not ‘good buddies’ with any of them nor will I ever be. I’m here to let you know that the billionaires … Continue reading →

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A would-have-been great marketing story that wasn’t

Posted on April 23, 2015 by markkolier

I was an adolescent when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon in July of 1969. Consequently I am more than a bit of a space geek and have always felt that NASA for better or worse has … Continue reading →

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Non-drivers commuting time activities have changed the game

Posted on March 19, 2015 by markkolier

Stories in both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal this week focused on the time Americans take to commute to and from their jobs. In the New York City area a story in the Wall Street Journal highlighted the … Continue reading →

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NY Health Insurer Oscar wants to get in your shorts

Posted on February 12, 2015 by markkolier

I don’t live in New York State and as such am not able to consider Oscar as our health insurance company, but I’ve watched the development of this interesting web-based insurance company.  An article in Fortune Magazine this past December … Continue reading →

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24 Books I finished this past year

Posted on January 2, 2015 by markkolier

I’m not one for New Year’s Resolutions. Yet at the start of 2014 I decided to do my best to always be reading a book or novel. It’s not as if I had not read much in 2013 and the … Continue reading →

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