Messages
1/29/2024
14 : 4
The Housing Famine
The real nature of our policy-induced housing problem
1/27/2024
16 : 14
Has The Economy Changed, Or Have We?
Thoughts on why things feel different
1/26/2024
14 : 4
New and Old #146
Friday roundup and commentary
1/25/2024
14 : 4
For Kmart, Two Is Company
An elegy, and a comparison, for the nearly dead American retail colossus
1/24/2024
14 : 4
Hail Mercedes, Full Of Gas
What Do You Think You're Looking At? #146
1/23/2024
14 : 4
Whose Side Are You On?
Do the interests of consumers and small business owners line up?
1/22/2024
14 : 4
What If I Should Drive An SUV?
Weighing self-preservation, principle, and duty to family
1/20/2024
14 : 4
Routine Work
Finding creativity and challenge in repetition
1/19/2024
14 : 4
New and Old #145
Friday roundup and commentary
1/18/2024
14 : 4
Re-Visiting Sicily (In Words)
A long letter from a reader and some comments and commentary
1/17/2024
14 : 4
What's Cooking?
A great YouTube chef and some other thoughts
1/16/2024
14 : 4
Pop-Up Houses
What Do You Think You're Looking At? #145
1/15/2024
14 : 4
Christmas City
Maybe ours, too
1/13/2024
14 : 4
Imagining What You Know (And Don't Know)
An analogy for the difficulty of imagining great cities
1/12/2024
14 : 4
New and Old #144
Friday roundup and commentary
1/12/2024
9 : 25
Buffet Chronicles: Different Than All The Rest
A formulaic business that departs from the formula
1/12/2024
9 : 14
What Junk Will Be An Antique?
Thoughts on nostalgia and the non-existence of "retro," "vintage," and antiques
1/9/2024
14 : 4
The Old Way Is The New Way
What Do You Think You're Looking At? #144
1/8/2024
14 : 4
Swingin' In The Train
Where does entrepreneurship end and "crime" begin?
1/6/2024
14 : 4
Try Everything Twice
Sometimes you need a second impression