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What I wish this book had gotten into more deeply, and a question it made me wrestle with
I just finished listening to Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle, by Jody Rosen. This is not exactly a review, because I listened...
Is "Good Friction" A Bad Idea?
I wrote about the idea of “friction” the other week, and whether something like “we should make things harder” is a good insight or barking up the wrong tree. Or even, as another writer I engaged with in that piece suggests, a kind of doorw...
Red Hot And Green
Take a look at this bank outside downtown Leesburg, Virginia:
It doesn’t really look like a bank, does it?
Now I happen to have driven by here many times before it became a Chase bank, so I remember what it was. It was this barbecue resta...
Archive Dive: When I Say "City," You Say...
Some of my favorite pieces here over the years, and some with the most engagement, have been these long, thinking pieces on housing, NIMBYism, generational disagreements, and American anti-urbanism broadly. This piece ties a lot of these th...
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What Ghost Kitchens Got Wrong, Changing Lanes, , March 24, 2026
Five years ago, I was quite bullish on ghost kitchens as the future, before I set the matter aside to think about other things. Looking into it, I was surprised to learn tha...
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