This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.

We are hungry for things that have touched human hands.

You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.

Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

Make your company stock a consumer product. When consumers buy stock in your company, they'll never buy a competitive product. You've linked their financial future to yours.

Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.