Category: <span>Pragmatism In Action</span>

When I walk into a restaurant I have never visited before, there are certain dishes I use as a test. In New England, one of the best tests is fish and chips. To be clear, I am talking about independent, non-chain restaurants: the mom-and-pop places, local taverns, neighborhood seafood restaurants, and one-off establishments that build…

There is something about these gig apps and the way they keep trying to get their hands around the money after the work is already done. You drive the miles.You burn the gas.You put wear on the car.You take the risk.You deal with the passengers, the deliveries, the traffic, the weather, the parking lots, the…

The discussion around e-bikes often falls into two camps. One side wants to treat every e-bike like an ordinary bicycle. The other wants to regulate all of them like motorcycles. I don’t think either approach reflects reality. Electric bicycles have become an important transportation tool. They help people get to work, attend school, keep medical…

Growing up Gen X means remembering a lot of advertising slogans that got burned into your head before you even understood what advertising was doing. One of those was Dr Pepper. Be a Pepper. Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper too? At the time, it was catchy. It was harmless. It was soda. It…

Every rideshare driver eventually encounters a situation where doing the right thing costs them money. That shouldn’t happen. Recently, I accepted a trip that looked like it was going to pay around $17. I drove to the pickup in good faith, expecting a routine ride. Instead, I arrived to find that the passengers had a…

RideShare Pro recently posted a video discussing a frustration many drivers are feeling in different markets: the summer slump. A lot of people look at lower earnings during the summer and assume there are simply fewer passengers. That is part of it, especially in college markets, but it is not the whole story. There are…

Okay, folks, this is one of those things I just have to say. If you want to have a real conversation about immigration, law, enforcement, temporary protected status, public resources, assimilation, and national priorities, then let’s have that conversation. But let’s not pretend the conversation starts and ends with slogans. The United States has one…

Yes, the asshole tax exists. A lot of industries have a nicer phrase for it. They call it adjusted pricing. They call it inconvenience pricing. They call it a difficult customer fee. They call it a special handling charge. They call it whatever sounds professional enough to put on paper without saying what everybody already…