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Entrepreneurial Hustle In Times Square
Times Square in New York City is always hot and humid!
Da place always be pullulatin!
As I sat at Times Square a few weeks ago in the post rain heat of a summer evening, to indulge in my favorite spectator sport of people watching, I was gently floated to a very tangible and titillating divide. To that heady, half drugged euphoria of straddling an analogy between every day life and a professional ideal. To a state of simultaneous multi perspective awareness of what was actually there and what was ideal, what was actually on offer and what was just smoke and mirrors. To a delicious clarity bridging the beauty, energy and human endeavor that was manifested there.
Times Square is great spectacle and entertainment. Less so for the souvenir and other shopping or even the surreal neon signs. The tourists and locals are great fun to watch. However, its really the entrepreneurs that caught my eye.
A big part of the curiosity and appeal are the tourists.
Many a hanging open jaw is on display but then they transform into the entertainment themselves. Having arrived in their own personal style and regalia for the…
