alternative futures: #deletefacebook

all that you touch,
you change.

all that you change,
changes you.

people are having totally different conversations when it comes to narratives about real estate and gentrification

When we talk about real estate, why do we never talk about distant landlords, real estate as an industry, the roots of land “ownership” as fucked because it imagines land as a commodity, which it isn’t

ruth stone running like hell as poetry chases her home

there’s a story that i often quote that i forget about the source almost every time i quote it. the story came up even just a couple of months ago when i met up with peter forbes and neitherof us could remember where i came from, though both of us knew it. we had a sense that we had heard it via on being, but couldn’t quite place it… so now i’m writing this up so i can just fucking find it in the future.

sneaking suspicion: more housing actually won't solve housing crises in financially overdeveloped places

i’ve had a suspicion for a long time that just won’t go away. figured i’d write it up in case i want to share it.

leopold kohr, size cycles, and the question of scale: maybe the country is just too damn big

on the way back from our three-day colab work meeting, i got into a conversation with two colleagues (aly and dayna) about the size of country. i think aly and i were on the “the country is just too big” side of things and dayna was on the “we just need better structures and systems to manage the size” side.