This illustrates the need for a news outlet, the Mundane Register, with stories like: “thousands of people live in area, go about their days unmolested… again.”

Or the Everyday Gazette: “city still not sacked by Huns.”

I’m reading Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece for the first time, The Death & Life of Great American Cities, and it feels like just the perfect orientation to my public service career in NYC. I’ll collect some notes in this thread :)

See these while putting away dishes made me notice anew the etchings we did at the library on some of our glasses to commemorate the places we fell in love early on. I love my girlfriend.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

a thread on coalition building

having a career in your 20s is a really just getting exposure to the wide spectrum between being extremely micromanaged and having too much autonomy