February 2012
7 posts
Text message from CarEnvy’s #CIAS12 correspondent, Luke, live from Toronto:
“Quote from a serious hick wearing a Ford t-shirt after looking at a 1955 unrestored barn find Gullwing Benz, “it’s ugly as shit, I wouldn’t pay $25 for it”. I wanted to spit on him.”
You show that classless swine, Luke!
January 2012
8 posts
All in one breath?
Sometimes you can just taste it on the tip of your tongue. Not quite salty, not quite sweet. But it has a taste, doesn’t it. It kind of scrunches your nose. Like you just smelled some of your own ghastly gas (a term I hope to coin and launch into virulism - a less self-explanatory term, it’s a sort of viral virulence, and another term that I hope to coin).
This smell, of course, is...
December 2011
3 posts
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From TED’s Q&A with Rory Sutherland: Positional...
Are you familiar with Robert Frank, The Darwin Economy?
No.
He does a very good thought experiment, which is that you ask yourself, in honesty: “Would you rather live in a society where everybody has a six-bedroom house, but you have a four-bedroom house, or would you rather live in a society where you have a three-bedroom house, and everybody else has a two-bedroom house?”
Most people say,...
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November 2011
8 posts
October 2011
6 posts
Saying "Yes" The CarEnvy Way
Since an acquaintance, who I would go on to become co-founders with, asked me if I’d be interested in writing about cars, it’s been three years. Since a seemingly innocuous chain of Twitter-initiated events unfolded that led to auto-makers noticing my work, it’s been about a year.
These two events, where I was in the right place at the right time and connected to the right...
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Russell Brand’s eloquence and ingeniousness as a writer is the reason why I spent last Christmas in Costa Rica reading his most recent book cover-to-cover. Don’t worry, that’s not all I did there, there was also futile volunteering, rum swilling, and many a Spanish lesson. But back to Russell. Here, he uniquely untangles the #OccupyWallStreet movement from ground zero. It’s...
September 2011
8 posts
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August 2011
1 post
July 2011
5 posts
June 2011
19 posts
