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Celebrations of livability: II
Interviewer: – Will you be profitable in five years with Monocle? Tyler Brûlé: – No, I already bought an island, and I did that with old media [money]. From DLD, 2009.
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Improvable cities: Toronto
Complacency. Such a disappointing diagnosis for a city. Tyler Brûlé´s ex-home town Toronto suffers from this badly, and we thought we should go through a few pointers on how to improve this sub-par...
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Better people: Alain de Botton
There is one person that we love to turn to in order to find essential insights on life and society in general, that is of course the best-selling author Alain de Botton. Mr. de Botton has for a long...
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What people want: I
I don’t care if it’s a man or a woman reader, sometimes people just want to see a picture of a warship or a handsome-looking helicopter. – Tyler Brûlé, Guardian, 2007
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The Brands: Incotex
Over the last few weeks, we have been wading through the retail jungles of Hong Kong, Vancouver and Sydney to pick up a thing or two before the skiing season in St Moritz ends, and the swimming season...
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A bankable opportunity
I think it’s a wonderful time (to be more enterprising). Rents are cheap. If you’ve always wanted to run a bakery for dogs, people are still spending a lot of money on their pets. This is a great...
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Brûlé Airways – The terminal
To start off this installment it seemed fitting to follow the process that every traveller normally goes through, from departure to landing. Hence, starting off with an attack on the so often sub-par...
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Priorities, please
The other day, we wrote about the horrific symptom SAS (saggy ass syndrome). We suggested that the WHO put it on some sort of suitable list for immediate attention. In these days of pandemics, it...
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Quote from the Weekly
From the excellent 23rd edition of the Monocle Weekly: You might have caught the headlines earlier in the week that had McDonalds announcing their plans of thumping Starbucks in the coffee retail wars...
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Don’t call it a comeback
When we thought nothing could get better, we read this: 3. Who has the best economy? – Pass. So we’re back again.
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