It’s taken me a little time to get used to it, but I now really like some of the changes to Major League Baseball - especially the pitch clock and the extra innings changes. The game has to adapt, it had gotten too slow and long in a world that just won’t tolerate that anymore.

It's a really strange feeling when you unwittingly pass an age where all your doctors (and most professionals you use), are now younger than you. How the hell did this happen?

The youngs seriously need to bring back mosh pits

A phone app just told me to stop smiling when doing a selfie. Very odd feeling.

Looking at this chart, the national outliers/leaders are clearly Miami & Seattle for population growth in their core cities. Miami has really boomed, adding over 100,000 people since 2000 - in the same city limits. The city's size is about 56 square miles. Seattle has added

New podcast: From House Hacking to Building Success in Real Estate Audrey Navarro takes us through how she helped build a large and successful business, and we discuss the ins and outs of trying to do "supportive housing." If you’re fortunate and diligent, you’ll encounter

I live in an older neighborhood in the city, and we have a really cool situation where we've got 12 kids 10 years old and younger in a small group of homes. For everyone, it's really great - the kids just run outside and play; the parents can hang back and have an adult beverage

It’s taken me a while, but I think I’m finally understanding what is meant by the term “financialization.”

Endorse And start school after Labor Day again

New podcast: The Changing Face of Household Types Mike Hathorne discusses what it all means for builders and developers, even those with big dreams and ideals Mike Hathorne has been around the New Urbanism movement for over twenty years. That means he has that rare combination

Re: car lines and this good post from the always-good Andy Boenau. open.substack.com/pub/speakeasy/… “In 1969, about 48% of children walked or biked to school. By 2009, that number had dropped to just 13% (Walk Bike to School). Today, the figure hovers around 11%, largely unchanged for a

New Podcast: A Conversation with Nolan Gray We focus on Houston's approach to regulating development - is it actually the right model for a post-zoning world? M. Nolan Gray 🥑 is the author of the very successful book, “Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to

Seems like tv ads have really tipped over now to like 3/4 pharma. It’s beyond absurd. And telling.

New podcast: From Small Developer to Mayor Allan Branch of Panama City, Florida, talks downtown redevelopment, hurricane recovery, and local politics Kevin’s note: Apologies on the audio quality. Riverside did something funky to this episode, and I did my best to correct it. We

New podcast: Incremental Success, One Not Sexy Project at a Time Johnny Youssef talks about how he built a rental portfolio, and eventually took on renovating an old church One thing that’s really obvious when you talk with Johnny Youssef is that he’s just a very positive and

A tremendous piece of writing. And some incredible history on the topic. My hometown is one of those places that had an old asylum, now shut down. Used to be the largest employer in town.

People seriously underestimate how good Paul McCartney & Wings was

Episode 100: What is Your "Why?" Jason Carter-Solomon, Shomari Benton and I have some fun, and also get personal, as we look backwards and look forwards in our own lives and careers I’ve been an avid podcast listener since the early days of podcasting. It’s probably one area

New podcast: Reframing the Housing Discussion Chuck Marohn and I talk housing finance, mismatches in the supply-demand conversation, and where we see the low-hanging fruit Charles Marohn of Strong Towns  joins me in the studio to dive deeply into the world of housing finance and

Asked a class of architecture students last night (4th year, so not newbies), how many had heard of Leon Krier. Not a single hand. Interesting data point - I hope that's an outlier. Krier is among the five most influential people in architecture & design of the last 50 years.