I'm almost at the end of the main part of Abundance so I started crystalizing some of my takeaways - even complimentary ones. But then I read advocacy for AI data centers. Girl bye!

Did they just "both sides" the efficacy of masking in disease mitigation?

As a former government worker, and current and forever employee of someone, if you do not list individual personal attributes (failings?) (trauma as a result of male loneliness?) as an unpredictable variable for why government projects get done: you have a willful blind spot

I had an epiphany (got high) and realized what the book is MISSING. It *does* have many anecdotes about policy and procedures getting in the way of goals. It does *NOT* have one anecdote about a shitty government boss that unnecessarily stalls or ruins projects (so far like halfway)

I might not comment anymore. Government gets in the way except when it doesnt. Don't forget the government isn't a monolith is a warning provided in the book after saying "the government" for 100 pages as if it is

If the doorframe is too small why didn't the first review catch it. Why didn't the builders. Abundance authors say "Fuck your wheelchair." Is that what you're saying?!?!?!

Now it's ableist. I blinked when they said home builders need duplicate ADA approvals and mentioned it slowed things down when the second review showed doorframes were a centimeter too small. Now they say compare filtration requirements to the alternative of sleeping in a tent with worse air quality

So Klein and Thompson wrote a lot about solar energy and wind farms. One of the findings was that solar energy's affordability and potency have far exceeded estimates. They follow that up with saying there is NO WAY to keep up with demand. So wait are we accurate with projecting tech advances or no?

I agree zoning is an issue. Building - for whom and why - is also an issue. They haven't mentioned private equity though and that to me is an oversight. I have never gotten over maybe a decade old podcast on Mnuchin and predatory reverse mortgages

I was an early "wtf is hillbilly elegy" haterade-r and this is starting to feel like that. Back when JD Vance wrote a somewhat fictitious memoir using what I can only call a "Liberal Bootstraps" genre. I can see the appeal but look at what that has wrought

This was in the book's intro but I also believe they called me childish for expecting the government to do something. So are you telling me not to vote? Are you telling me to overthrow the government? Oh right. You're telling me to vote and pay and submit BUT ALSO do their jobs

Also it's been since before several events mentioned in the book that Elon Musk has escalated and maybe destroyed housing and rental prices in Austin. That should have at least been a footnote if they were using that as the "conservative" state housing success story

I hit a point when to demonstrate the loudness of liberal states vs the quietness of liberal policies in conservative states, they compared LA and San Francisco with *Austin.* Yeah it's in Texas but is it really?

Right off the bat I see both sidesisms but I don't even know who our current Ché is and if they would rven write political pop literature

You mean they're different people?

I believe the correct inflection is "He ✨IS✨ railroad daddy"

I was all over tahn for the parade and festivities during the day. I wish I had seen it in person at night ✨