The word “hospitality” fuels an entire industry. Restaurateurs and hoteliers are constantly on the hunt for what makes us walk through their doors, and better yet, what makes us come back again and again.

It’s one of those subjects that seems like it has a limitless amount of information and nuance. For something that so many of us consume quite often, it seems we should all be experts.

When brothers Luke and Walt Dickinson began brewing beer more than six years ago, there were fewer than a thousand craft breweries in the United States.

When the poet John Donne wrote that “No man is an island” in 1623, he stated something both obvious and enlightening.

When Shea Parton booked his flight to Israel last spring, he expected the journey would be rife with bureaucracy like Russia, traffic like New Delhi, and conflict like he’d seen in the news.

Have you noticed how much our parks, neighborhood sidewalks and city avenues have changed in the last decade?

Accomplishment rarely lasts when it’s static. When you’ve built, created or achieved something of value, you can almost guarantee that not too far behind will be imitators, competitors and detractors.