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For My Californian Readers
I am paraphrasing Sonja Trauss here and I hope she doesn’t mind too much.
Jul 24
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Dave Deek
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I Read Hostile Profiles of NY-DSA and Progressive Victory. I Took Notes.
I really want NY-DSA's and Progressive Victory's calendars. Softball, A/V club, a choir, karaoke, a book club, and a hundred thousand volunteers.
Jul 23
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Dave Deek
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The Marrying Up Trap
Why marrying up doesn't work and misses the point. I wish I'd known this when I was on the dating market.
Published on Best Life Yet
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Jul 22
Bringing back Eisenhower's process for getting rid of process
The Bureau of the Budget’s 1945 toolkit, rebuilt to live in the browser.
Jul 9
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Dave Deek
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F. Ichiro Gifford
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Kevin Hawickhorst
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June 2026
Don't Just Sell YIMBYism in San Francisco! Sell It in Cleveland.
Think like a golf cart salesman opening new markets - and every walkable neighborhood is a new market, one more place you can cross by cart
Jun 8
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Dave Deek
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Something Special For Next Week
Sorry for the radio silence
Jun 5
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Dave Deek
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May 2026
It's harder to fire someone in China than in California (with caveats)
Until you look at the bottom half of each labor market, where dismissal is effectively at-will everywhere. For those with lawyers, it's a different…
May 26
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Dave Deek
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Data centers could lower power bills. Energy utilities won't.
The regulatory contract pays them to grow rate base, not lower bills.
May 20
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Dave Deek
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Nobody Trains a Zohran Mamdani or an Andy Byford. That's the problem, and it's a fixable one.
DSA trains organizers. The Federalist Society trains judges. Nobody trains to actually fix cities' and states' problems.
May 18
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Dave Deek
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Costco and Safeway are getting housing built where others fail. It isn't because a mayor wants it
The real luxury isn't square footage. It's not driving for onions. Notes on why the building goes up even when the mayor doesn't want it to
May 12
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Dave Deek
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Boris Johnson sees a "blessing" in falling British births. Britain's grandsons don't.
Young men and young women across the political spectrum are losing the same future. Their elders are celebrating and "ignoring the doom mongers"
May 6
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Dave Deek
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Walt Disney And The Romance of Building (A Ton of Apartment Buildings)
How Walt Disney, a Florida county, and thousands of unpaid Saturday mornings explain the future of American housing
May 4
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Dave Deek
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