Ok I know this isn't the point of the post, but as a born and raised Houstonian: We need to ramp up Jewish Deli production. We have one in town; it dominates the market and is able to charge $40 for a pastrami sandwich because it is just so damn good.
I see this desire for the tangible often express itself in hobbies. For most knowledge workers (of which I consider myself to be one), the results of a successful day at work looks like a slightly less-full email inbox. When I get home, a lot of times the last thing I really want to do is sit in front of a screen after having done that all day. So, I do things like board gaming, miniature painting, model railroading, and so forth. I remember that back in the 90s and early 2000s there was a lot of doom and gloom in the communities for these hobbies; older hobbyists were fearful that the digitization of the world and the growing popularity of things like video games would result in their hobby dying out. In fact, the opposite has happened, and arguably these and other kinds of hobbies that have a physical and in-person interaction component to them are as popular as ever.
Ok I know this isn't the point of the post, but as a born and raised Houstonian: We need to ramp up Jewish Deli production. We have one in town; it dominates the market and is able to charge $40 for a pastrami sandwich because it is just so damn good.
I see this desire for the tangible often express itself in hobbies. For most knowledge workers (of which I consider myself to be one), the results of a successful day at work looks like a slightly less-full email inbox. When I get home, a lot of times the last thing I really want to do is sit in front of a screen after having done that all day. So, I do things like board gaming, miniature painting, model railroading, and so forth. I remember that back in the 90s and early 2000s there was a lot of doom and gloom in the communities for these hobbies; older hobbyists were fearful that the digitization of the world and the growing popularity of things like video games would result in their hobby dying out. In fact, the opposite has happened, and arguably these and other kinds of hobbies that have a physical and in-person interaction component to them are as popular as ever.