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…
The Power of the Unseen
And the awesomeness of overcoming survivorship bias. During World War II, the American military enlisted the help of the Statistical…
The Death of the Deliberate
The other night, I got an ad on Facebook for a therapist. Credit: The New York Times It wasn’t the first…
Doomed by Desire
Have smartphones destroyed us? Our generation — that of “millennials” — gets written about a lot. We are “better behaved and less hedonistic nowadays,”…
The Power of First Impressions
And what it means that Apple nails them all. At a time when many brands were moving away from retail,…
When Fragility Becomes Strength
A case study into the iPhone’s fragility and the Apple brand. As it has become clear just how luxurious life within…
