Every once in a while – if you’re lucky and paying attention – you catch a glimpse of life beyond the known world. What you see may ignite a ...
Place of Power
When I trace back through the moments that led me to Zurich (coincidentally during the 500th anniversary of the Reformation) it feels very much ...
Language and Cities
B’reishit bara Elohim. In the beginning of… [1] Language is everything. It informs the way we think, create, and order our world. When we ...
Imagine Paradise
Paradise is the place where you feel most free. For those who have little experience with paradise, it can seem eternally out of reach, in some ...
In Defense of Beauty and Joy
People talk about the beauty but rarely about the joy that comes from living within this dichotomy.
Freedom to Evolve
Conversation these days doesn’t often veer towards evolution, but it has been on my mind. We talk of freedom and struggle, hope and change, yet ...
Two Days at the Lake
After flying from San Francisco to Chennai then across India to Kochi, followed by an uneventful but cramped bus ride an hour or so down the ...
Preserving Our Future
Why do we have to keep talking about the past in the midst of creating a city for the future? Mostly because there are some things that our ...
Why Publishing’s Diversity Problem is Also Technology’s Diversity Problem
Every creation begins with the words, or as they say in the tech world, the story. Technology is as much about stories as it is about the ...
Westside Mania
Fresh from a flurry of community planning meetings about the Westside, one can’t help but be exhausted and a little disturbed by the experience. ...