Keep walking, global middle class
A great article in the current issue of Foreign Policy on the massive global expansion of the Johnnie Walker brand, as expressed in this beautiful TV spot for the Mexican market. Johnnie Walker. Keep Walking [...]
September 2013
Laughing out of poverty
Great column in the New York Times by Manu Joseph on the fallacy of thinking that the poor in India need technology so they can improve their health or their education or the lives of [...]
Mental Health Moment: You can be a big wheel with Urbantrike
If you're young enough to have had a Big Wheel in your history, there's a great project on Kickstarter: Urbantrike, a Big Wheel for adults. What I like about it is it's a bike you [...]
Will cars get Smart?
Interesting post by George Black of the National Resources Defense Council on the idea of little cars like the Nano and the Smart for smarter urban transport, quoting me on why sales of the Nano [...]
What I did last summer
I feel like I need to post an essay on what I've been doing since my last post in July, other than putting on ten pounds and 30,000 air miles. Whatever it was, while it [...]