The Mason Minute

Oct 23, 2025 • E5328 • 00:01:00

I don’t know if you have the same problem, but whenever somebody tells you to relax, you automatically tense up. I’m not the most chill person. And just asking me to do it makes things even worse. I automatically tense up. Some people can do i...

Oct 22, 2025 • E5327 • 00:01:00

Are you familiar with the concept of dynamic pricing? It’s how airlines, hotels, and even gas stations operate. They determine the price based on market conditions. Availability, or lack thereof, plays a significant factor. And while I understand the conc...

Oct 21, 2025 • E5326 • 00:01:00

If you spent any time online yesterday, you likely found some of your favorite websites down. There was a major outage with AWS, that’s Amazon Web Services. And they host much of the content like video, images, and sound files for sites like Amazon, Snapc...

Oct 20, 2025 • E5325 • 00:01:00

October is always a special month for my family. It starts on the first with my parents’ anniversary and then on the 20th, which of course is today, my father’s birthday. This year, it’s even bigger than most years because my parents cel...

Oct 19, 2025 • E5324 • 00:01:00

One of my favorite parts of the weekend is enjoying a good meal. Not that we don’t eat well at home during the week, but I do love dining out. When we grab a meal, it can be something simple or fancy. These days, it’s usually something simple....

Oct 18, 2025 • E5323 • 00:01:00

I have a decent pain threshold, or I think I do. But there’s one pain in general that, while not debilitating, is one of the nastiest and annoying pains. That pain is from paper cuts. I’ve had recurring back pain for decades, and you can’t compare the two...

Oct 17, 2025 • E5322 • 00:01:00

Have you ever heard of the lipstick index? It’s a term economists use to gauge whether we’re on the way to a recession. They base it on the idea that people buy certain items in advance, in bulk, when the economy starts to go south. For women,...

Oct 16, 2025 • E5321 • 00:01:00

I talked about this a few months back. Researchers in North Carolina are looking at changing the traffic lights we encounter every day. For as long as I’ve been driving, the overwhelming majority of traffic signals have had red, yellow, and green lights....

Oct 15, 2025 • E5320 • 00:01:00

I know that Gen Z and younger people prefer text messages. Older folks like me, who don’t like them, still prefer email. I stopped counting the number of emails I get per day, but it’s usually in the hundreds. If you do any online shopping or...

Oct 14, 2025 • E5319 • 00:01:00

It was only yesterday that the kids were heading back to school. But many are on fall break right now. Some school systems had a break last week, others this week, and the week after. My nephew Ray is on fall break from college this week. And while the re...