Archive -August 2015

Luxury and Time

China
consumers
27 August 2015
Pas de commentaires
Stephane Baillie Gee

I thought luxury was not my thing. I have not had a watch for decades. They scratch my portable computer wrist pad. And the ones I had before were neither flashy nor expensive. But now I do work with the luxury industry. I like it. There is a building in Shanghai[…]

+...

Ode to counter-intuitiveness

Complexity and Systems
counter-intuitive, values
19 August 2015
Pas de commentaires
Stephane Baillie Gee

What about doing crazy things? We know that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Then comes a whole gallery of muscle flexing archetypes. We need force. This is what we grew up on: strength and honor. Sounds like the Roman empire. Actually it comes from the Ridley[…]

+...