For My Californian Readers
I am paraphrasing Sonja Trauss here and I hope she doesn’t mind too much.
Governance Cybernetics
Good governing isn't about finding middle compromises for opposing views, but about blending the best solutions, even if they seem to clash. Industrial & Market Policy, Government Ops. & Quality, Urbanism (YIMBYism), Family Policy (Pronatalism), etc
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I Read Hostile Profiles of NY-DSA and Progressive Victory. I Took Notes.
I really want NY-DSA's and Progressive Victory's calendars. Softball, A/V club, a choir, karaoke, a book club, and a hundred thousand volunteers.
Bringing back Eisenhower's process for getting rid of process
The Bureau of the Budget’s 1945 toolkit, rebuilt to live in the browser.
Don't Just Sell YIMBYism in San Francisco! Sell It in Cleveland.
Think like a golf cart salesman opening new markets - and every walkable neighborhood is a new market, one more place you can cross by cart
Something Special For Next Week
Sorry for the radio silence
It's harder to fire someone in China than in California (with caveats)
Until you look at the bottom half of each labor market, where dismissal is effectively at-will everywhere. For those with lawyers, it's a different story.
Data centers could lower power bills. Energy utilities won't.
The regulatory contract pays them to grow rate base, not lower bills.
Nobody Trains a Zohran Mamdani or an Andy Byford. That's the problem, and it's a fixable one.
DSA trains organizers. The Federalist Society trains judges. Nobody trains to actually fix cities' and states' problems.
Costco and Safeway are getting housing built where others fail. It isn't because a mayor wants it
The real luxury isn't square footage. It's not driving for onions. Notes on why the building goes up even when the mayor doesn't want it to
Boris Johnson sees a "blessing" in falling British births. Britain's grandsons don't.
Young men and young women across the political spectrum are losing the same future. Their elders are celebrating and "ignoring the doom mongers"