For a country that got its start, and has continued its entire existence by obsessing over comparisons to Ancient Rome, doing the whole "Go and lose in an unnecessary war against Persia" really thematically brings the whole thing home, no?
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This. The dream of the 90s is dead. Cheap rent enables every kind of creative work and nothing else can substitute for it.
I love the bus going into the office.
Three key points we seem to forget:
1. The cost of international bulk shipping has dropped 98% since the 1950s due to containerization.
2. *Everything* got off-shored, for everyone. It's all global supply chains now. Shipped by oil.
3. You can optimize for efficiency or resilience, but not both.
You don’t know who is finding meaning in your stories and novels.
You don’t know who your words are helping though dark times.
from NO KINGS yesterday, in Portland — handed out by a guy in overalls and carrying a pitchfork on which tines was speared a sign, "ASK ME ABOUT GARDENING CLUB". So I did. (Regrets for not taking his photo as well.)
Markets and platforms aren't the only solution to everything, and must not be the only solution to everything.
As the sages say “always get involved in a land war in Asia, it’s a classic good idea”