How Australia’s Technology Stands Out<br />We’re still finishing up and figuring out what we need, but I bought a Sonos speaker — partly to offset the music we can hear from the hip sneaker store below us; partly because I find<br />that music can be a useful team builder and a tool for inspiration.<br />Malls and small-town Main Streets are still crowded all over Australia, which feels like a throwback to me as an American,<br />and online shopping is not as common as it is in the United States.<br />Damien Cave, the Australia bureau chief for The Times, who is based in Sydney, discussed the tech he’s using.<br />I’ll never forget when David Gonzalez, a longtime Times reporter I’ve always greatly admired,<br />came into a class I was in at Columbia Journalism School and started playing Miles Davis.<br />No offense to Craig Newmark (whom I know from covering tech ages ago) and his Craigslist,<br />but there’s a lot to be learned from how Gumtree works on mobile and integrates messaging across platforms.<br />Americans living in Australia seem to be thrilled, especially those (like me) who<br />got very used to relying on Amazon for almost everything in the United States.
