Link to the article mentioned in the post: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/how-to-be-a-sto...

Raptitude is a pretty neat blog - I really enjoy his earlier posts. My favorite article is titled "How to walk across a parking lot":

http://www.raptitude.com/2011/09/how-to-walk-across-a-parkin...