Wish I had seen this chart before I decided to move to Brazil to found a startup in 2011!

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business. -Eric Hoffer

No one has said it better than St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

The same basket of groceries that cost $100 in December 2019 costs nearly $126 now, per Axios.

Extraordinary

We are launching a school like this as a part of the new Catholic high school in Castroville, TX

We’re hearing this message more from conservatives like Gov. Doug Burgum, Texas Public Policy Foundation and Joe Lonsdale. There is a new generation of right leaning leaders who know that suburban sprawl is fiscally unsustainable and recognize it is making vast swaths of the US ugly.

The one at University of Notre Dame’s Basilica is among the finest examples in the United States.

If this actually gets finished along these lines it will be remembered similarly to Boston’s big dig: horribly managed, wildly delayed, and massively overbudget but a dramatic improvement in the quality of life for many generations in the cities’ it serves.

When I go start another tech company someday, this will be my motivation.

It’s true

This is a unique and interesting take, though I’m not sure I’d be willing to bet my life/career on it by moving there now

ftr my position continues to be we should build beautiful buildings and statues and parks in every corner of every city in the country, and anyone who stands in the way of this should be run out of politics with pitchforks — but beauty is not a mere nicety, it is essential

Poetry used to be central to education, and people loved it because it was taught terribly. Kids memorized poems and chanted verses out loud. The words were alive: something to be experienced, performed, felt in the marrow of your bones. Then came the 1920s, when a group of