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Three Small Things That Make People Happy

Three Small Things That Make People Happy

I took a month and a half off recently — three weeks in the Bay Area, two weeks in New York. Because I'd put down almost all work, I was in a state of "all senses open" every day, which showed up in a marked increase in my daily Google usage. On the highway, for instance, I'd run into all kinds of signs — "PED," "XING," "JCT," "Yield," "Park & Ride" — that I'd seen countless times before, but