I wish I could properly share with you the feeling of being a father to a little girl. It is redemptive, expanding, and shockingly beautiful. If you are going to become the father to a little girl, I can assure you of one thing: you are not prepared for such joy.

vs 1964, Will Carter design— love this so much

High time preference leads to elites willing to burn reputational seed corn for momentary political advantage News, science, and laws enforcement all become unreliable and things come apart quickly

As it happens, last night over low-time-preference-BBQ (13hr on the smoker) we were discussing how high time preference is driving the current fiscal insanity, and—additionally—promoting cultural short-termism, self-absorption, and low fertility.

This is worrisome. Cannot call Kamala a communist for wanting price controls on groceries and then call for price controls on interest rates. What would be the effect of such a cap? It would mean higher credit standards, new late fees, spending caps, and who knows what else.

We are doing it wrong. 1920 > 2020.

Better to start small than to start big, but if you started big and that’s not working, switching to small is the next best thing. Sad to lose DBA from my neighborhood, but it was clear from the beginning that they were gonna need to sell a lot of pulled pork to cover that rent.

Geoff Graham Firmly believe any new concept must start in a space of less than 50 seats. Learn, iterate, etc. If it has legs then goto the 100 and even beyond. But start <50 where you can touch every seat yourself and see the entire place.

I think about this idea a lot.

Nick Garren Centralized planning is the root problem, in my view. It is the germ seed upon which financialized development is built. Until localism is restored, corporatism will remain ascendant. Because, as it stands today, there is no greater friend to America's crony capitalists than the

What the Amish understand perhaps more than we do is the necessity of maintaining and protecting domains of embodied human agency in our lives. buff.ly/4e7ZlGE

Is there any other egregiously terrible SCOTUS decision that both 1) still stands and 2) causes anywhere close to the damage of Euclid?

The limitless, intense obsession for Israel in the US — forcing Americans to finance its military, pay for weapons to fuel its wars, repeatedly isolating the US from the world, now eroding our own speech rights: all to protect this foreign state — is creepy and self-destructive:

To every complaint that not enough affordable housing is being built, we should argue that housing would be naturally affordable were it not for this👇🏼