From soccer to Chipotle, everything we do is shaped by economics The FIFA World Cup, and specifically the penalty-kick-heavy match…
Memes: An Antidote to Uncertainty
What our obsession with memes—and content like them—says about us “The tendency of any medium is to attract to itself types…
The Instagram Generation
What happens when a society with a penchant for the cosmetic meets a medium dominated by it? “The medium is the…
People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves
What Apple, Samsung, ands Starbucks learned from Pepsi The year was 1957, and Pepsi — like many of the youth at that…
The Crisis of Optimality
Platforms are making us complacent. Here’s why. In an article published at the end of last year titled “Definite Optimism as…
The End of Authenticity
A tourist in search of something increasingly hard to find. Since being in Amsterdam, I’ve felt out of place, which must…
Musings on Facebook
Strategy credits and unintended consequences abound! As many analysts have argued, Facebook’s forced self-regulation will only entrench their incumbent position…
The Consumptive Mirror
Want to know what you are? Hint: it’s what you consume. “As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we…
An Economy of Desire
“Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.” — Neil Postman, Amusing…
Pulling Back the Curtain
What startup aesthetic can tell us about our future and the implications of the Internet. The offices of the startups…
