Have you noticed how time – arguably one of our most precious commodities – isn’t waiting for us to get our shit together? Excuses proliferate on why we put things off that matter to us: visiting a wizened, old family member before they head to the country, volunteering for a worthy cause we say we believe in, going back to school to learn something fresh, taking that ambitious trip we’ve talked about for years. Time – as the erudite saying goes ...

Sustainability advocates hate to admit it, but their word has become a defacto synonym of environmentalism. This is unfortunate, not only because the movements are in fact quite different, but because environmentalism hasn’t exactly been a success.

Why is this? After all the environmental calamities we've had in this world, why hasn't environmentalism achieved more? The answer dawned on me the other day while collecting eggs from our free-range chickens here on our burgeoning little farm. The ...

In Spanish, the verbs conocer and saber both mean “to know”. Conocer comes from the same root as the English words “cognition” and “recognize”, and generally means “to be familiar with.” Saber on the other hand, means a few different things. Primarily, it means “to know” in the sense of “to know a fact”, or “to possess knowledge about”. It can also mean “to have flavor”, as in sabe rico, it tastes good.

I wanted to know this place. I ...

Peru is on a roll. It's been four years since my last visit, and I've spent a week experiencing a staggering amount of growth in development and tourism since then. I am convinced that the next four years will bring even more growth to this amazing country.

Tourism ...

Consumers are frequently becoming the sellers: what’s that mean to the customer experience?

While I was in San Francisco last week, I had dinner with friends in Berkeley. After dinner one offered me his empty apartment to avoid the drive back to the city. It was a nice gesture that ultimately ended up falling flat when he gave me the wrong key. No worries, we're friends remember. I ended up just driving back to the hotel, got to ...

In 1976, visionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme" in his first book, The Selfish Gene. It was his word for the informational equivalent of the gene: a self-replicating, evolving idea. The sort that occasionally hooks into a moment in societal consciousness and establishes itself in people's minds. Whether silly or profound, these memes represent a new way of thinking about some small part of our world, and we can't help but be affected by them.

For ...