USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
Nico Harrison should not be allowed to make this pick. He needs to be fired before the draft.
I’m happy for Mavs fans, they deserve this, Nico does not.
I’m proud to announce that after years of hard work, dedication, ups and downs. I’ve officially retired from watching sports. I wish I could say I loved every minute. Moving forward I’ll be exclusively watching anime. Thanks for your support over all these years.
This next release is our fourth as a company. I'm trying to appreciate what things are now because they are about to change, and the result will increase pressure in a good way.
It feels like having a hit album in your backpack the world doesn't know about.
We've gotten more “Yes’ in meetings this past month than we've seen before.
Getting folks into pilots before was a lot of work, and we struggled.
But we kept talking to users and iterating. Now on these calls were seeing legitimate excitement about the product.
2025 lets go