Yesterday I wrote about how businesses make Tokyo's subways stations better. It is just one example of how commerce makes things better. The same is true of airports, of city centers, and even of …
The Life Giving Power of Commerce
Just over a year ago, Amanda and I were finishing the last two months of our trip to Asia in Taiwan and Japan. There are lots of differences between the two countries, but one small but striking …
Appreciating Technological Change
The second season of Anne With an E, the Netflix/CBC Anne of Green Gables show came out this past week. Season two, like season one, was fantastic. The show is set at the turn of the 20th century, …
Thinking Like a Billionaire
As technology improves, the fixed costs of entrepreneurship and investment continue to drop. This creates opportunities for people with middle-class income to invest and operate like they are much …
Becoming a Non-Coward
"I discovered that the world should be divided not into good and bad people but into cowards and non-cowards. Ninety-five percent of cowards are capable of the vilest things, lethal things, at the …
Peter Keating or Howard Roark
Howard Roark and Peter Keating are two of the key characters in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. They are a great contrast in approaches to the world. Roark a creator and first principles thinker, he …