flâneur

Mark Chiu

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  • Ideas are one step upstream from economic power, so it's conceivable that intellectual centers like Cambridge will one day have an edge over Silicon Valley like the one the Valley has over New York.
    Cities and Ambition
  • your best bet is probably to try living in several places when you're young
    Cities and Ambition
  • fields like the arts or writing or technology that the larger environment matters.
    Cities and Ambition
  • Most people overvalue negative amounts of money: they'll work much harder to avoid losing a dollar than to gain one.
    Cities and Ambition
  • It's expensive and somewhat grubby, and the weather's often bad. So the kind of people you find in Cambridge are the kind of people who want to live where the smartest people are, even if that means living in an expensive, grubby place with bad weather.
    Cities and Ambition
  • progressive grocer magazine
    Curius / Onboarding
  • [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade
    Curius / Onboarding