Tag: Colombia

Mede-Jean, not Medellin

Driving the back streets of Medellin a few weeks ago I found it interesting to see the various little pockets to the city. In the poor parts of town I noticed on a couple of occasions taxi drives running their vehicles on empty. I’ve seen this before in countries where

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Fear
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Chris MacIntosh

False Evidence Appearing Real

One of THE most brainless and pernicious perpetrations against humanity is instilling a sense of fear where it doesn’t belong. This begins at a young age as kids everywhere are taught the same nonsense… Beware of Strangers! In the West they’ve even given it a catchy tag line. “Stranger Danger”, they

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Mark Zuckerberg
Global Trends
Chris MacIntosh

Is This Why Mark Zuckerberg Chose This Country?

Dale Carnegie was a brilliant man. An intellectual giant with insights most of us will only dream of possessing. I read much of his works when in my twenties. His books are relatively small and I’d keep one in my coat pocket. When riding the train into London Bridge for

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Colombia
Podcast
Chris MacIntosh

KISS in Colombia

KISS… You’ve likely heard the acronym used before: Keep it simple, stupid! It can be applied to anything in life, except for perhaps keeping one’s wife happy which is why man invented quantum physics. I was reminded of this when a friend recently began complaining about his very expensive luxury imported

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Cartagena
Podcast
Chris MacIntosh

A Sensory Feast – The Fastest Growing Country in Latin America

Did you know that over 65% of people are visual learners and that we process visual representations 60,000 times faster than text? Over 90% of the information we process daily comes to us visually, which may explain why 40% of all nerve fibres connected to the brain are linked to

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Grave
Global Trends
Chris MacIntosh

We Should All Strive to Be “Grave Dancers”

In the investment world he’s known as the Grave Dancer. Like many successful and outspoken men, he is loathed by some and loved by others. Whatever you may think of him, it’s valuable to keep an open mind to both success and failure in order to seek the former and

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Chris MacIntosh

This Country Offers More Than Just Discounted iPads

Everyone likes to buy things at a discount, right? This fact, together with human irrationality, explains why masses of eager shoppers line up in front of stores on the first day of a holiday shopping season. Black Friday anyone? While not exactly buying a new J. Crew V-neck sweater 30% off

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Question Everything
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Chris MacIntosh

It’s Q and A Time!

We’ve received quite a few emails from many of you over the past few weeks. I’ll answer some of the questions you’ve had and touch upon your comments here as I think they might be relevant for the others to read about. Let’s just dive right into it, shall we? Question: Dear

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