Daily insights for city builders, delivered every morning at 6 AM ET. I’m Brandon Donnelly — a Toronto-based real estate developer and founder of Globizen. I’ve been writing here since 2013.

Month: July 2013

  • subtilitas:

    Tham & Videgård Arkitekter – Summerhouse, Lagnö 2011. Photos (C) Åke E:son Lindman.

  • Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

    C.S. Lewis  (via psych-facts)

  • If you generate cash, investors mean nothing. If you do not, then your success will depend upon the kindness of strangers.

    the always awesome Ben Horowitz

    Capital market climate change – Term Sheet

    (via fred-wilson)

  • Down the middle (at Pier 27 Condos)

  • Discover new ideas by optimizing for growth

    The fascinating thing about optimizing for growth is that it can actually discover startup ideas. You can use the need for growth as a form of evolutionary pressure. If you start out with some initial plan and modify it as necessary to keep hitting, say, 10% weekly growth, you may end up with a quite different company than you meant to start. But anything that grows consistently at 10% a week is almost certainly a better idea than you started with.

    -Paul Graham

  • Morning coffee on the beach (at Sugar Beach)

  • Carry Me On by Brookes Brothers ft. Chrom3 (Journeyman Remix) by House.NET

  • arkitekcher:

    Flag | Apollo Architects & Associates

    Location: Tokyo, Japan

    Fantastic infill; love the narrow street

  • justthedesign:

    Pleated Trench Coat And Heels

  • Jack’s: Let’s reconsider our “users”

    jacks:

    us·er
    /ˈyo͞ozər/

    Noun
    1. A person who uses or operates something, esp. a computer or other machine.
    2. A person who takes illegal drugs; a drug user.

    Synonyms
    consumer

    During a Square Board meeting, our newest Director Howard Schultz, pulled me aside and asked a simple question.

    “Why…

    Jack’s: Let’s reconsider our “users”