Sublime

An inspiration engine for ideas

AllPeopleCollectionsArticlesAudioBooksFilesHighlightsImagesLinksNotesTextTweetsVideosSocial

New York in 1932 was half-completed skyscrapers, work on them long since halted for the lack of funds, that glared down on the city from glassless windows.

Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker

The city agreed to limit public oversight, to use the power of eminent domain on behalf of Metropolitan to acquire the land and to give Metropolitan unprecedented control over the selection of tenants.

Charles V. Bagli • Other People's Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made

urban villages

Glenn Toddun • 1 card

Those who run our corporate state have fought environmental regulation as tenaciously as they have fought financial regulation. They are responsible, as Polanyi predicted, for our personal impoverishment and the impoverishment of our ecosystem. We remain addicted, courtesy of the oil, gas, and automobile industries and a corporate-controlled

Chris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Malm and Carton consider and dismantle the optimism of carbon capture and geoengineering, and they pile up evidence for the extraordinary financial investment since 2020 in what they call “fossil capital.” Any meaningful energy transition would make those immense pools of capital worthless—oil that can’t be pumped, pipelines that can’t be used,... See more

Collective Partners

Sebastian Flores • 10 cards

capitalism

Nathan Spainhour • 1 card

Inspiration Capital

Paulina Paucic • 5 cards