T hree years ago, I kept running into a frustrating problem - one of those issues that people create start-ups over. The local newspaper delivery system was shady. They wouldn't give me a receipt for the monthly payment, all records were kept in a book they maintained, and cash-only payment frequently meant that they'd pocket the change, even though they pretended to write down details in their book; the details curiously missing the next time they showed up for cash. Were I more entrepreneurial, I might have created a start-up that let people buy and pay for newspapers subscriptions online and provide a professional service. I'd have failed, given my utter lack of people-skills and logistics being a nightmare to maintain. So, I did what my aversion to conflict prodded me towards. I cancelled my newspaper subscription; the first time I truly had been without a newspaper since childhood. I t was great for a while. I was able to focus more on news that I wanted to read, rathe...