> If I were you I'd buy my own insulated bag and meet the delivery person in the lobby. Less convenient for sure but you'd be able to keep your food hot.

That's probably a really good idea, thanks! I might also need an insulated sleeve for pizza.

Thank you. I agree about the safety, which is why I'm upset by the unsubstantiated claim.

When I wait in the lobby for my food to arrive, it gets to me considerably warmer than when I wait for the call from downstairs and then first get in the elevator to come down.

Some food items such as very thin crust pizza are especially sensitive and drop pretty rapidly in temperature when left at the front desk for even a couple of minutes, especially with a cold winter breeze every time the door opens.

It's interesting that you say that about the delivery services. I have noticed that they are not as good at keeping the food warm as the restaurant employees used to be.

I live in a small building without onsite management. No rules around deliveries. I prefer delivery to my door. I live close enough to the building entrance though that I'll often meet them down there.

In my experience the delivery people are in and out as fast as they can. They're not hanging out committing crimes.

If I were you I'd buy my own insulated bag and meet the delivery person in the lobby. Less convenient for sure but you'd be able to keep your food hot.

Was not aware of this, was aware of spectrum squatting happening in the past.

Point is noone else was using the spectrum, it wasn't like they were stepping on another station's broadcasts. Whole point of the system is to ensure that this is fundamentally what happens -- not to gatekeep and make it cost-prohibitive for anyone but large companies who bought up a ton of small stations in the past. I mean it is once politicians with donors get involved, but it's not supposed to be that way.

I don't think your food is getting cold if you're getting it in a timely fashion. Perhaps you're sensitive to food temp, and if so maybe you should choose a different service to get food delivered or go out to eat. App delivery people don't have the same level of scrutiny or responsibility and the service level has degraded quite a bit since they've been introduced. I avoid them if I can.

You're right about the danger though. I would imagine all of the danger of a delivery transaction is toward the delivery person and not the receiver. As a former delivery guy in my youth, I did not have time to commit crimes even if I wanted to, nor would I have gotten away with it.

Sponsored by Failure Management.

The biggest flex would be to convert the building to a homeless shelter, low middle income and artist housing. I don’t need profit!

Also who is this Jacob Garlick guy?

I always meet the person downstairs for my delivery

This presumes the higher end housing is actually going to NYC residents. And maybe Flatiron would. But some of the luxury market is functionally geared to foreign wealth sheltering and money laundering. I think that needs to be factored into NYC's luxury housing model as well.

Cuomo got pissed at him for getting more good press than him and basically ran him out.

Rookie mistake you gotta ease her in with the small stuff. I recently told my mother about how many times I actually skipped my chemistry class (I pretty much went once a week if that by the second semester) even though she only thought it was the few times I got detention. I was only getting the detention for showing up late to class so I just decided to not go at all. I stopped getting detention and my mom stopped getting calls home. She did not like the full story but 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️now she knows.

Reconfigure?

Guess I’ll go and turn myself into a display. Or a living statue.

I want a fucking print!! $$$

Soon to be replaced by a Mayor Adams bust

Yeah I read the title and I was like "That's it?"

Train Daddy is BACK IN BUSINESS

$30 for a couple of rooms that take about 40 minutes to see.

Not just "failure" in the literal sense, but also public perception of "failure".

The most recent and major example I can think of is Apple's AirPods: when the original AirPods product was announced, everyone made memes about it like Apple's wired headphones with the cords cut off.

I'm pretty sure Samsung even made an ad about that.

I was one of the early users (bought it ASAP), loved it, and showed it to my friends who originally thought it was a bad product, but then were actually surprised at its quality.

Now, Apple's AirPods (and competitors Bluetooth, in-ear pods) are ubiquitous.

Went from meme and "who would buy that" to who wouldn't buy that

Who are you, me?!

> Honestly 190 million for the fucking Flatiron building seems cheap?

The building has 255,000 sq ft and it comes to $745 per sq ft. Actually cheap for Manhattan where median price for a building is $1,450/sq ft. Add on the $100 million restoration costs and you're still in the ballpark of Manhattan real estate at $1,135.

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For sure this guy Russell E. Oakes, an amateur American inventor, he invented spikes on his arms to enable him to push his way through a busy department store, a wind-up spaghetti fork and an automated hat that used a leaf to fan the wearer, Along with a million other failures, but he always kept trying.

Precisely!! Almost everything we have would’ve never happened if someone sat there and said ehhh I’m not gonna try this cuz I might not succeed

Who was your favorite inventor/story from that campaign?

I worked on an ad campaign once where that was the whole idea, all the almost great inventions throughout history. Researching them and the people who created them was so interesting, really made you realize how hard people work even to fail sometimes.