“At some point, you have to turn your attention from the advice of commentators whose main credential is success in providing advice, and actually steep yourself in the nuance of how people make remarkable things happen in your field.”
-[Cal Newport](http://calnewport.com/blog/2013/02/26/on-the-art-of-ambition/?utm_source=StartupDigest+Reading+List+%28best+articles+on+startup+life%29+%5BStartup+Digest%5D&utm_campaign=a1f2308f3f-StartupDigest_Reading_List_Mar1&utm_medium=email)

I. Flattening out crumpled dollar bills into a neat stack before putting them into your wallet.

II. Then sorting them by denomination.

III. Next turning them so that they all face in the same direction, with the faces on the front upright.

IV. Finally, in spare minutes, sorting them within denomination by serial number.

I plead the fifth as to where I fall on that spectrum.

While CrossFit NYC is already one of the largest CrossFit gyms in the United States, we continue to grow quickly, driven by happy members’ word-of-mouth. As a result, we’re now looking to hire several more full-time coaches over the first half of next year.

Thus far, we’ve hired and promoted entirely from our own membership. Now, however, we’re expanding our search to the CrossFit community at large. We think a job at CFNYC is both a great career opportunity, and a chance to impact the lives and athletic performance of a large number of people.

We treat our coaches as professionals; it is our goal to enable all of our full-time coaches to earn $100,000 or more per year. We pay our coaches a base starting salary of $40,000+ per year (plus health insurance) to coach 20 hours of classes for us. Coaches are then free to do private training, and may use our facility at no charge – coaches keep 100% of their personal training revenue. With that arrangement, our more successful coaches earn $100,000-120,000 a year, without working more than 40 hours a week.

Applicants are required to have a CrossFit Level 1 Certification, a strong background in CrossFit and related fields (whether through degree, certification, or real-world coaching experience) and a well-endorsed track record of coaching CrossFit in a group context.

To apply for a position, please send your resume, three references, and a short cover letter explaining why you’re the obvious choice for the job, to [jobs@crossfitnyc.com](mailto:jobs@crossfitnyc.com). We will respond within 7 days. If it appears you may be a fit, our next step is an interview, followed by our oberving you actually coaching an evening of classes at CrossFit NYC.

We hope to bring on a new coach as soon as January 1st. However, if you’re interested but unavailable until a later date, please also consider applying; as mentioned above, we will be hiring throughout the year, and would be happy to hold a future slot for you if you’re a great fit.

If you have additional questions beyond the information here, feel free to email us at [jobs@crossfitnyc.com](mailto:jobs@crossfitnyc.com). We look forward to hearing from you!

Goes here. See, that wasn’t so hard, was it? So why can’t I seem to do this on a daily basis?

Didn’t mean to fall off the blogging bandwagon here. While I’m still on the apartment search, things are cranking well on all other fronts, so I have no excuse other than momentum for the radio silence. Back to it.

According to Einstein, the putative creator of this puzzle, 98% of the people in the world aren’t able to figure out an answer. Are you in the illustrious / deeply nerdy 2%?

The Facts:
1. There are five houses in a row in different colors.
2. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
3. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is a Walleye Pike.

The Question:
Who owns the fish?

Some Hints:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

Yes, this is solvable with the information provided; I banged out the answer in about ten minutes.

Also, I hate puzzles.

One day, walking through the wilderness, a man stumbled upon a sleeping tiger. As he tried to sneak past, the tiger awoke, and began to chase the man. The man took flight, running as fast as he could until finding himself at the edge of a high cliff. Desperate to save himself, the man climbed down a vine and dangled over the jagged precipice. As he hung there, two mice, one white and one black, appeared from a hole in the cliff and began gnawing on the vine. Suddenly, the man noticed on the vine a plump wild strawberry. He plucked it and popped it in his mouth. It was incredibly delicious!