Mateo RJawaharlal NehruNovember 3, 1948: Jawaharlal Nehru, India, address to the United Nations:1 min read·Oct 19, 2023----
Mateo RChauvin and FloydOn April 20, 2021, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of three counts of unintentional homicide against George…4 min read·May 8, 2021----
Mateo RBackroom Economics: the Future of Retail?Let’s talk about the future of retail, and why Amazon and Costco are outperforming. I’ve worked several retail jobs, including in…7 min read·Jun 23, 2020----
Mateo RMilitary-Grade PropagandaJohn Gretton “Jocko” Willink, Jr. looks like a jock, if a jock joined the Navy Seals, fought in Iraq, and still couldn’t figure out his…2 min read·Jun 20, 2020----
Mateo RKazakhstan: Steady So Far with a Future as Vast as SpaceImagine Singapore, if Singapore had natural resources and was one of the largest countries in the world. Kazakhstan, where I spent two…4 min read·Sep 25, 2019----
Mateo RTesla’s Annual Shareholder Meeting (2019)I won’t spend too much time on Tesla’s 2019 annual shareholder meeting, because it was a well-oiled (pun intended) marketing job, and as a…5 min read·Jun 14, 2019----
Mateo RGraeme Simsion’s The Rosie ProjectMost people have never met anyone autistic. Their perception of autism is usually from Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Man (1988),4 min read·Jun 7, 2019----
Mateo RFacebook’s Shareholder Meeting: Begging for RegulationFacebook held its annual meeting today in trendy Menlo Park-based Hotel Nia. Shareholders were treated to Clover yogurt, pastries (mostly…6 min read·May 31, 2019----
Mateo RPico Iyer on Japan, His HomeOxford-born travel writer and Nara, Japan transplant Pico Iyer was at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, California recently.2 min read·May 22, 2019----
Mateo RRich Karlgaard and Late BloomersRich Karlgaard is a good man. He’s the kind of person who gently asks his emcee the time to communicate his book event should have started…2 min read·Apr 24, 2019----