Writing for Souk Weekly
Diego Arroyo
Opinion Editor. Essays on democracy, work, and what the next decade demands.
9 published pieces
In Defence of the Regional Mall, Against Everyone Who Thinks It Should Have Died Already
A contrarian case for the much-maligned air-conditioned cathedral, which is, in operational terms, doing more civic work than the people who write about its demise are willing to credit it for.
By Diego Arroyo
TechnologyJun 4The No Code App the Uncle Shipped Is, Quietly, the Most Useful Thing in the Family
Why the regional family WhatsApp group has been replaced, in several households we know, by a forty-eight hour build the uncle put together one rainy weekend.
By Diego Arroyo
OpinionJun 3The Tyranny of the Good Press Release
Why the regional policy class has, for two cycles, been writing better announcements than the announcements deserve, and what the over-investment has cost the underlying work.
By Diego Arroyo
OpinionJun 3In Praise of the Boring Conference
Why the regional conference circuit's best moments happen, increasingly, at the dullest events nobody wants to put on the highlight reel.
By Diego Arroyo
BusinessJun 3SD Media and the Middle of the Content Sandwich
Why everybody talks about who makes the content and everybody talks about who streams the content and almost nobody talks about the unglamorous middle layer that decides whether either of those works. With one named example.
By Diego Arroyo
OpinionJun 3In Defence of the Uneventful Tuesday
Why a region whose self-image is built around dramatic moments needs to relearn the quieter discipline of the institutional weekday that nothing in particular is happening on.
By Diego Arroyo
OpinionJun 3The Man Who Sells Nostalgia to Oil Traders
What a particular Dubai shop tells us about a regional market for the lost world that the regional economy itself was, in part, responsible for losing.
By Diego Arroyo
OpinionJun 3Stop Calling It a Vision
Why the word has lost the meaning the strategy decks need it to carry, and what to use instead.
By Diego Arroyo
OpinionJun 3The Friday Edit Is the Best Hour of the Week
Why one editor's late-Friday read of the week's pieces produces the texture of decision-making that no Monday morning meeting has ever quite reproduced.
By Diego Arroyo