It’s a clear tell that a market is jacked up when a hobbyist can produce something of higher quality more affordably than he can buy it from someone else, but mayn’t sell his product to others.

The road widening goes on forever and the construction never ends. Here is a rough summary of what's happening with highway construction. Of course you can quibble with details here and there, and sure there are sometimes exceptions, but this is directionally and generally

I admit to ignorance and I’ll do my best to remedy that as soon as possible. Thank you Kevin Klinkenberg for the invitation! My conversation with Matt on Yeoman: spotify.link/lN38OnZ2TXb

Tweetstorm from a BBQ scholar:

All other things being equal, who is more likely to start a family? 1) the young couple who lives in a tiny apartment within three miles of lots of extended family, or 2) the young couple who lives in a spacious home with no extended family within a three hour drive?

The beef version of coin clipping, coin plugging, money printing, etc.

I am not weird. You are weird for discussing America of 2025, while overlooking the one factor that distinguishes it from every prior civilization (wasting vast resources to support luxurious retirements and inefficient healthcare for retirees, at the expense of the young).

Geoff Graham I had this come up and Kroger claims their customers prefer meat with the added salt water. 😂 x.com/benmagelsen/st…

Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, and have no energy and creativity in.

2 things that stand out to me: 1) Remnick’s interruptions undermine his credibility while Stewart’s patience elevates his. 2) One of the most prominent corporate journalists believes it is wrong to ask people who disagree with him to explain why they believe what they believe.

Geoff Graham “There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.” — John Ruskin

These are the most important parts of this helpful infographic.

'A Quiet Day in the Studio,' was painted by Sir John Lavery in 1885 a period where he was matching himself against the Salon masters, as much as against Whistler and had begun to experiment with naturalism - often seen to be in competition with photography.

As a friend (with a private account) commented, we need a "poet of the market" to tackle this. Which economists are interested in this topic?

Nassim has been planting olive trees in his home town for most of the last decade. 🧵

Ran across a hair-raising line by sixteenth-century writer John Foxe—“Not to understand what was done before we were born, is to live always as children”—and I think the complete lack of curiosity most people have towards the past is one reason everyone is now twelve.

Shameless Frontier Mayor and Booster I think a lot of problems become a lot less terrible if far fewer people move far from home. I am not saying no one should move (certainly some people should!), but moving far away (for skool or work or to find yourself or whatever) should not be the default thing to do.

Consolidation and corporatization of development has transformed our cities. Local developments typically consist of < 4 units, while corporate developments often exceed 50. Since the 1990s, we have radically corporatized. This underscores the importance of defending localism.

From Stephen Bainbridge's "Corporate Purpose in a Populist Era" (2020): digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewconten…