Small is more.

Why should you attend a Brigadoon salon dinner?

I mean look at you.

You are busy. You are important. You have a sterling network.

Why would you consider attending a Brigadoon salon dinner?

Well, here are eight reasons to consider:

✔️ Each dinner will have an intimate feel providing open and frank discussions with all participants. Plus, you feel like a guest rather than a delegate.

✔️ Brigadoon gatherings are all powerpoint free and governed by Chatham House rules to ensure maximum conversations.

✔️ There are no lanyards or apps involved – by the end of the dinner, you’ll be on first-name terms with subject matter experts from numerous industries including finance, government, business, media, architecture, manufacturing, design, retail, and hospitality.

✔️ Discussions focus on topics shaping commerce and culture and happen in an informal and relaxed setting.

✔️ Regardless of your profession or skill set, you will be exposed to people who will inspire you to think about your work, life, and home.

✔️ Brigadoon gatherings are transformational, not transactional.

✔️ Brigadoon gatherings aren't small because we can't figure out how to get big. We intentionally remain small because it is better.

✔️ I would like to have a dinner and a discussion with you.

-Marc

Marc A. Ross

Founder

Brigadoon

No bull. Work remotely from Scotland.

You can do this. The time is right. The situation is right. 

Work remotely with other entrepreneurs and thought leaders at Carphin House in Fife, Scotland this fall. 

Think of four days where you can work remotely in a country estate, spend the day as you want, work on your book, strategize, think, read, whiteboard, check-out, or go for a hike.

End each day with private chef prepared dinners with fellow participants where the topic of conversation is business development and entrepreneurship.

Capitalism, Plastic, Cannabis, Video Games, Self-driving Cars

The Future of Capitalism by Paul Collier: Alan Murray writes, three great fissures that have emerged: one geographic (the regions against the metropolis), one educational (the have-mores versus the have-lesses), and one global (the developed versus the left behind—particularly Africa, which has been the subject of much of Collier’s work). At the core of his analysis is an argument that we lack a moral framework to heal these rifts. The right pursues a blind allegiance to the belief that freedom for “economic man” to pursue productivity and prosperity can bridge the chasms, while the left pursues an agenda of lawyerly rights and benefits for disenfranchised identity groups. Both sides ignore the moral obligations that have always made successful societies work.

Society worked from 1945 to 1970, Collier argues, “because it lived off a huge, invisible and unquantifiable asset that had been accumulated during the Second World War: a shared identity forged through a supreme and successful national effort.” 

Food delivery apps are drowning China in plastic: NYT reports, the noodles and barbecue arrive within 30 minutes. The containers they come in could be around for hundreds of years thereafter.

Demand for meat-free foods is up — 23% in the US last year alone, according to The Good Food Institute. 

Israel is banking on cannabis as its next big industry: LAT reports, Israel is becoming a powerhouse in the medicinal marijuana business, bringing scientific expertise and marketing skills to a multimillion-dollar market.

NBC News: Video game addiction is a mental health disorder, World Health Organization says

The WHO calls gaming addiction "a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behavior" so severe it "takes precedence over other life interests."

Japan law loosens rules for self-driving cars: AFP reports, Stuck in traffic on a Japanese highway? If you're in a self-driving car you might be able to kick back with a sandwich and check your phone under new legislation in the country. The law, passed Tuesday and published on the lower house website, takes effect from next year ahead of the Tokyo Olympics and offers a slight loosening of the current restrictions on autonomous vehicles.

Good morning.