Very few of us have a mental model for the macro conditions that we are living through right now. We have been through economic downturns, but most of us haven’t lived through a pandemic. I am an optimist and I know that we will get… 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
Aaron Renn has a few observations up on his blog from a recent trip to San Francisco. Number 2 is as follows: “A curiously low energy city. It’s tough to judge any American city’s street energy after living in New York, but San Francisco felt basically dead.… Read More
A few years ago, I was touring a friend from the US around Toronto’s Financial District and the first thing he said to me was: “You have no retail.” And that’s certainly what it might look like at first glance. But there’s actually lots of… Read More
