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Category Archives: Culture
What About Rochester: Toward More Geographical Diversity in a New Year
One of the missions for Handbuilt is to get people to think outside the box. I got into this “career” field accidentally because I was curious about why things were done a certain way– badly, in my opinion- and it … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Economics, Culture, Urban Planning
Tagged austin, bay area, buffalo, coastal chauvinism, jersey city, new york, new york city, new york state, newark, paterson, rochester
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Canada Trip V – Struggles of Canadian Ascendancy
It’s easy to go from the decaying infrastructure of a city like Detroit to a cleaner, more prosperous city like Toronto. One is astonished by the functionality of the city. Storefronts are occupied! Buildings are being built! There are streetcars … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Culture, Language
Tagged accenture, BDO, Canada, doug ford, harjit sajjan, immigration, jagmeet singh, jason kenney, kogod school of business, montreal, refugees, Toronto, yonge-dundas
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Canada Trip II – Montréal and Language
I arrived punctually in Montreal, relatively un-traumatized from a twelve hour train trip. I fell asleep for a power nap while listening to my audiobook on the birth of gangsta rap (highly recommended, by the way), checked into my improbably … Continue reading
Posted in Language
Tagged culture, french, language, montreal, quebec, quebecois, rene levesque
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Liability in the Age of Easy, Profitable Destruction
Early on the morning of July 16th, 1945, in the middle of an uninhabited desert halfway between the remote cities of Alamogordo and Soccoro, New Mexico, the first atomic bomb was detonated. It was the culmination of six years of … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Economics, Capitalism, Culture
Tagged big oil, big pharma, big tobacco, business, ethics, fentanyl, finance, gun control, gun deaths, liability, litigation, opiates, opioid crisis, opioids, oxycodone, oxycontin, philosophy, purdue pharmaceutical, responsibility, war on coal
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