
White walls (at Historic Distillery District)
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.

White walls (at Historic Distillery District)

Park well done. Lots of potential. (at Corktown Common)
Tham & Videgård – Archipelago house, Stockholm 2006. Photos (C) Åke E:son Lindman.
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)
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)