Today's Video Link

Yeah, it's another Adam Ragusea video. I really like this guy, more for the way he thinks than the way he cooks. (His cooking's probably fine but it's not what interests me.) This one has as its moral a principle I've tried to live by. I often find myself doing something — or doing it a certain way — just because I see other people doing it or doing it that way.

That's not always wrong but it's wrong often enough that you need to keep asking yourself the question, "Why am I doing this?" Often, I find that I don't know why so I stop doing it. Here, Adam talks about trying to replicate the way professional cooks chop an onion or other food item — and why that may be a foolish thing for you to attempt…