“People who run ball clubs, they think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn’t be to buy players, your goal should be to buy wins. And in order to buy wins, you need to buy runs.” — Peter Brand in…
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What I’ve learned traveling around many of the world’s great cities. These tips are reminders for me. If they apply to you, fantastic. In May 2022, I graduated from New York University, and with it, said goodbye to a special…
When I was in 8th grade, my family in a small town in Vermont hosted an exchange student from Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona, unbeknownst to me at the time, is the capital of a region called Catalonia, which, for as long…
L’Eixample (pronounced lie-sham-pla) is not the Barcelona neighborhood you’ll find on postcards, but it is, in many ways, the neighborhood most emblematic of the city’s current day atmosphere. The neighborhood spreads across the center of the city in between the…