Construction is an essential sector of the economy, responsible for building and maintaining the physical infrastructure that underpins our society. However, it’s no secret that construction productivity lags behind other sectors of the economy, such as manufacturing and information technology. So why is this the… Read More
Here is a good follow-up to yesterday’s post about Ian Schrager and Edition Hotels. It’s a short post by Seth Godin that I’m going to reblog here in full: The gulf between “risky” and “feels risky” is huge. And it’s getting bigger. It turns out… Read More
Marketing guru Seth Godin recently published this value triangle on his blog: No matter what business you’re in, it’s worth giving some thought to this. What do you offer? At the bottom of the triangle is function. A hotel room functions as a place to… 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
I’m convinced that city building – like probably every other industry – is going to get a lot more data driven. Yesterday I wrote about how driverless cars are collecting exact replicas of our cities as a result of the 3D scanning that they do.… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 