Governance Cybernetics

How Japan can turn AI demand into industrial strength

Murata and Chemi-Con reveal what the boom can finance—and where public support could make a difference.

Sep 10 • Dave Deek

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What Caused The Burrito Discourse? One Fund Who Ate Chipotle's Goodwill

How America’s most admired restaurant was converted, over one decade and by one fund, into a machine for weighing chicken.

Sep 3 • Dave Deek

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Three Types of State Housing Laws

And why you should care about them.

Published on YIMBY In Practice • Sep 1

August 2026

Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires

Infrastructure is sexy

Aug 30 • Dave Deek

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July 2026

For My Californian Readers

I am paraphrasing Sonja Trauss here and I hope she doesn’t mind too much.

Jul 24 • 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 • Dave Deek

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The Marrying Up Trap

The dating advice nobody gives you

Published on Best Life Yet • 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 • Dave Deek, F. Ichiro Gifford, and 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 • Dave Deek

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Something Special For Next Week

Sorry for the radio silence

Jun 5 • 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 • 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 • Dave Deek

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