I just finished reading about an apartment building in Los Angeles that is currently retrofitting its amenity spaces to include, among other things, an appropriately spread out co-working space, two podcast rooms, and a TikTok studio. This latter amenity will be a roughly 100 square… Read More
Over the weekend I went by the new North store on Ossington for the fitting of my new Focals by North glasses. According to Retail Insider, this is the first retail space in Canada that is entirely dedicated to wearable tech (shout-out to Hullmark and… Read More
“…the path to profit is to manufacture attention more cheaply than what you get paid for it.” –Ev Williams A big part of our economy is centered around attention. Some would argue we are living in a de facto attention economy. That is now our scarce… Read More
Someone recently asked me: “Why do you blog?” I have lots to say whenever someone asks me this and I’ve written a few of those things down, here. Obviously I believe that there’s tremendous value in writing your own blog and reading the blogs of others.… Read More
The internet has created an interesting dialogue between personal identities and corporate brands. In the pre-internet and pre-blogging days, it was harder for individuals to establish a strong brand and public identity for themselves, unless of course they were somebody famous. The cost of doing… Read More
Ideas by Janet Kwan on 500px https://500px.com/embed.js I started writing this blog a year and 10 months ago. At that time, I had no real title for it (it was just called “Cities”) and I had no idea where it was going to take me. All… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 