Normally I like articles like this, but he lost me here:
Reaching for my mug is a commitment. It is a reminder that, “Hey, we’re focusing elsewhere for moment. Don’t screw this up. I’m hot.”
Really? I think he just needed an interesting-sounding paragraph and made that up on the spot. I bet he had never thought of it that way before. Ah, over-analysis. If you think hard enough, you can make anything sound incredibly complicated.
