Our real advantage comes from the many things that we take as given. We live in houses where clean water gets piped in - we do not need to remember to add Chlorin to the water supply every morning. The sewage goes away on its own - we do not actually know how. We can (mostly) trust our doctors to do the best they can and can trust the public health system to figure out what we should and should not do. We have no choice but to get our children immunized - public schools will not take them if they aren't - and even if we somehow manage to fail to do it, our children will probably be safe because everyone else is immunized. Our health insurers reward us for joining the gym, because they are concerned that we will not do it otherwise. And perhaps most important, most of us do not have to worry where our next meal will come from. In other words, we rarely need to draw upon our limited endowment of self-control and decisiveness, while the poor are constantly being required to do so.

We officially launched the Sandbox Hub in Mexico City this weekend. To commemorate this event, the participants carved "SANDBOX" into the sand - with a motocross.

Sandboxers from all across the world joined us today for a dinner: Nathaniel Whittemore (San Francisco), Niamh Hughes (New York), Will McQuillan (London), Nadia Laurinci (also London), Simon Wind (Berlin) and Rahaf Harfoush (Paris) all came to the city to work with us on a two-day client workshop. And Ines Silva just touched down a few hours before the dinner to start her internship with Sandbox!