Announcing Something New
I’ve written casually for a while, but I never thought it would go this far.
Avoid single points of failure
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned in business is that you should avoid unnecessary risk. It sounds obvious, but it deserves attention.
Good cities are irreplaceable
When I moved away from Canada, I explained to a friend how much I would miss it. I’ll be back someday, I said. Vancouver and Montreal had been my homes for the past six years and I had attachments to both cities. In my mind, they were irreplaceable.
We’re building copy-and-paste cities
Our cities are becoming boring. What were once melting pots of cultures, ideas, and designs are now models of scalability and reproduction – indistinguishable asphalt jungles. They’re losing their souls, and we’re losing ours too.
Never before seen
I’m constantly amazed by how it seems like every niche market in existence has been monetized. Like there’s no more gold in the mine. There are products, media, and services that stretch across every corner of the internet as if almost every possible idea has been exploited, and yet, there is still an abundance of opportunities waiting to be realized.
You are not your resume
The separation of the professional self from the entire self isn't taken seriously enough. They are not the same. People are not resumes. People are personalities with unique emotions, ideas, and opinions, and, unless one’s career fulfills their life’s mission and they are content with nothing but work, a job title alone does not suffice for a biography. Your LinkedIn profile should not be tied to your self-worth.
Why Netflix should go into retail
Right now, Netflix makes money in one revenue stream: subscriptions. People pay to watch TV and movies directly from their computers, and the company is making a killing. But will the trend continue?
The city of the future
People are flocking to cities. Even with over 50% of people in urban areas today, growth projections estimate that more than two-thirds of the world will follow suit by 2050. The wave of new residents will create inevitable complications in managing affordable housing supply, reducing carbon emissions, providing clean water, and offering accessible and efficient urban transportation networks.