Israel

Much has been said about Robert Moses' multi-decade reign in NYC. Typically this includes his nuanced understanding of power or critiquing top-down urban design. But there's a subtler thread that ran through his life. A superpower we all have access to: radical attention. While others debated, Moses (cunningly noticed): Which bureaucrats made ... See more

This successful funding round will give Substack the opportunity to invest $100 million in more tools for writers and creators. This is great news, and I offer congratulations to @Chris Best, @Hamish McKenzie, @Jairaj Sethi and the entire team at Substack. They have built a fair and transparent support system here for writers and creators that neve... See more

Hurray for Public Domain! Convinced a collaborator to use a public domain image from Levi Walter Yaggy’s 1887 Geographical Study instead of an AI image.

This is why I like substack > A year after college graduation, my friend Sebin introduced me to an exercise that changed how I thought about direction-finding. She handed me a piece of paper and asked me to mind-map everything I actually thought about during a typical week, not what I thought I should be thinking about, but what genuinely occupie... See more