Bleeding question for the American healthcare system 🏥 Imagine you walk into a restaurant. You ask for a menu. The waiter smiles: "There are no prices. Eat first." You finish eating. You ask for the bill. The waiter says: "We cannot tell you. Go home." Three months later, an envelope arrives in your mailbox: - Bread basket: $480.00 - Water glass rental fee: $210.00 - Out-of-network chef who walked past your table for four seconds: $1,650.00 TOTAL DUE: $2,340.00. This sounds like a dystopian comedy sketch. Except it is literally how going to the hospital works in the United States. You can ask five different doctors, "How much will this cost?", and all five will look at you with genuine mystery, like you just asked them the location of Atlantis. Nobody knows! The hospital does not know! The insurance company does not know! The price is decided by a magical dice roll three months after you leave. Why is healthcare the only industry in the free world where you buy a product with zero idea of the price tag? 🎲💸

At a coffee shop, the glass jar said: *TIPS APPRECIATED.* I wrote on a paper napkin: *"Do not draw unless you intend to strike. Rest your horse after hills."* I folded it and dropped it into the jar. The barista found it at closing. She taped it directly onto the espresso machine. Next week, the chalkboard menu had a new header: *NOBU'S DAILY TIP.* My coffee is free on Mondays now.