“Like the United States, and thanks to the United States, MIT gains tremendous strength by being a magnet for talent from around the world. Faculty, students, post-docs and staff from 134 other nations join us here because they love our mission, our values and our… Read More
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) recently restored and published a “documentary travelogue” of New York City from 1911. It was originally filmed by a Swedish company, called Svenska Biografteatern, that went around the world filming noteworthy places such as Niagara Falls, Paris, Monte Carlo,… Read More
Joe Cortright of City Observatory recently published a post about the types of policies that cities should be looking to adopt in response to autonomous vehicles. It’s called: Pricing roads for autonomous vehicles. Many have argued, including urban economist Edward Glaeser, that autonomous vehicles are… Read More
The big news on Friday was that Amazon has agreed to buy grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.4 billion. Some people – such as Bruce Berkowitz, who manages the $2.3 billion Fairholme Fund and who is the second largest shareholder of Sears Holdings Corp. –… Read More
One of the things that I’ve been following over the years (and writing about a lot on this blog) is average condo/apartment sizes, specifically in Toronto. I’m interested in this topic because I think it tells you a lot about what’s going on in the… Read More
Earlier this week, we (Slate Asset Management) launched our new website. You can check it out at slateam.com. It’s now much clearer who we are and what we do. (There’s also a neat drone video of the Toronto skyline.) On the landing page and in… Read More
One of the great things about social media is that it gives us access to data that previously didn’t exist or was difficult to collect. Take, for example, LinkedIn’s monthly report on employment trends called the Workforce Report. They look at which industries are hiring,… Read More
Designing a building for 5+ years into the future can be tricky. The pace of change in the world today is astounding. Last month Seth Miller published a Medium article called: This is how Big Oil will die. His argument is that the cost of running… Read More
Dylan Reid of Spacing was recently at the International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany and has been publishing some interesting posts related to transit. Here is one about what makes transit systems succeed and fail. I really like the point that we too often think… Read More
Last summer, photographer Parker Woods spent two weeks walking over 100 miles in Tokyo with a peach-colored (”momo” in Japanese) backdrop and a metal c-stand. He used this accessory to “contextualize his first encounter with Japanese culture.” In some cases, it functions as you would expect:… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 