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A group of parents wanted to expand a local park. The land was owned by the city and already used heavily by the community. As the neighborhood grew, the need became obvious: benches, a small playground, a half-mile trail, and...
There’s a particular kind of parental frustration that doesn’t get talked about enough. It appears when a genuinely talented kid struggles to see herself clearly. My youngest daughter is a college freshman studying data science and computer science with a...
Last week at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Orlando, a friend of mine — the head of AI for a multi-billion-dollar company — shared an analogy about AI adoption that I haven’t been able to shake. He said...
High-growth cities eventually reach a moment when making decisions becomes harder than it should be. The plans may still be sound. The finances may still work. The leadership may still be capable. But something changes in the environment around those...
A governance-level breakdown of exposure, identity friction, and approval resilience I’m writing this after recently returning from a trip to Atlanta, which has more than 100 data centers, which are attracting a lot of attention at the moment. I figured...
Last week, I stood in front of 100 high school students and asked a simple question: What is the most “AI-sounding” sentence you’ve read today? They did not hesitate. They recognized the tone immediately — polished, predictable, technically correct, emotionally...
A year of books on incentives, institutions, narrative, and decision-making—what each one argues, why it matters, and where it’s useful The Upside of Down | Megan McArdle McArdle examines why failure is essential to success. She pulls from economics, psychology,...
Career arbitrage and the power of unfair ease If you listen to enough commencement speeches or scroll through enough Instagram quotes, the advice for young adults seems unanimous: “Follow your passion,” and “Do what you love, and you’ll never work...
A developer sees a prime opportunity to revitalize a declining urban corridor. On paper, the project is a win—it expands the tax base, prevents blight, injects life into a stagnant neighborhood. She doesn’t file the plans. Not because the plan...
“Content is king” is nonsense. While I’m hopeful marketers are working to extinguish that phrase from their vernacular, it’s a lazy cliché that sets the wrong expectation. It makes content sound like a single, monolithic thing you must produce.That mindset...
