I was lucky enough to spend last Friday morning at a café in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. Recently I’ve made a habit of spending Fridays there. I don’t live in San Francisco but I tend to have meetings in SF, which means the Ferry Building often becomes a bit of a home base for me. There’s [...]

Last week The New York Times published an article called “But Will it Make You Happy?” and it quickly made the rounds among my friends and family. 
The article centers on the idea that “Conspicuous Consumption” – or the idea of buying “without regard” – is out.
Instead, Americans today are not only consuming (and spending) less, [...]