Flyover Country, Circa 2019 “Even the most modern communication technologies are limited: They can’t carry as much information as a real-life, face-to-face collaboration. Slack, email and instant messaging are famous for their inability to convey tone, and the resulting crossed wires.” —”Where You Should Move to Make the Most Money: America’s Superstar Cities“; The Wall...Read More
Boycotts, Social Media & Goldman Sachs [Editor’s Note: if TV networks play re-runs during traditionally slow times of the year . . . bloggers can recycle old posts. The following, which originally appeared November 13, 2009 (!), is one of my favorites. “Your Money’s No Good” is also the title of the second book I...Read More
“Bring Back the Pony Express?!?” First there was “slow food” — a reaction to today’s fast-food culture, it’s an actual organization (founded in 1986) that now has chapters in every state and dozens of countries. Next came slow travel, slow schools, slow living, slow books — indeed, an entire slow movement. So, in a world...Read More
Next Stage: Integration + Ubiquity I have a few words of encouragement for Realtors walking around shell-shocked by the (accelerating) pace of technological change in general, and in the housing market in particular: It’s going to get better from here. And easier. That’s because the next stage(s) of evolution likely won’t involve qualitatively new or different technology....Read More