“Our present panics tend to arrive just as new parts of our economy, culture and politics are reconstituted within platform marketplaces”
The internet of the 1990s was a perfect canvas for alarmism: hard to define,...
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“What are the lessons of craft beer’s triumph for the rest of the economy?”
…what are the lessons of craft beer’s triumph for the rest of the economy?...
“The fight to save Main Street, then as now, was less about the price of goods gained than the cost of autonomy lost”
…nostalgia for Main Street is misplaced — and costly. Small stores are inefficient. Local...
“E.P.A. regulations make economic sense for two important reasons industry lobbyists (and their hired politicians) overlook…”
Among the E.P.A. measures the Trump administration wants to roll back is the Clean...
“What Mr. Trump denounced…as ‘these ridiculous rules and regulations that make it impossible for you to compete’ actually kept Americans alive and made the country more competitive”
Companies also inevitably overstate the costs, especially when new pollution standards come up for...
“If you dream of opening a brewery, the best piece of advice that I can give is that nobody cares as much about your business as you do”
If you dream of opening a brewery, the best piece of advice that I...
“As a business, recycling is on the wrong side of two long-term global economic trends”
As a business, recycling is on the wrong side of two long-term global economic...
“Once, work was a major source of friendships. … Now, work is a more transactional place”
Once, work was a major source of friendships. We took our families to company...
“…when it comes to its own way of doing business, the venture capital industry has little appetite for disruption”
…when it comes to its own way of doing business, the venture capital industry...
“You also have to be able to relate to people, and not look down on them or talk down to them”
When you bring staff into a meeting and you talk to them about the...