Glad *SOMEONE* in Sacramento is taking on the California Coastal Commission.

These are a group of so-called Environmentalists that have skirted State Housing law for decades with Zero consequence, (looking at you AG).

If Beverly Hills & Westwood are building- so must the Coast.

Staying off Twitter is good for your mental health.

I’ve read that price algorithms for used books can be weird but until today I hadn’t seen the evidence.

In this Chatter episode, Virginia Postrel and I cover so much territory that we end up mentioning Prince, The Hunger Games, Jackie Kennedy, what makes Vikings cry, Justin Trudeau, crushed cochineal bugs, togas, and Cary Elwes.

Really enjoyed doing this podcast.

Latest from our most pagan ex-president.

If you were starting now, what would you do?

What the history of spinning might teach us about eldercare: My latest in the Los Angeles Times latimes.com/opinion/story/…

While I don't live in NJ's 3rd district, I urge those that do to vote Joe Cohn for Congress. Joe is a zealous #freespeech advocate who built & led @thefireorg's legislative team for a dozen years & promises to bring that same dogged commitment to protecting your civil

I just watched the celebration online. The project is incredibly inspiring and I'm embarrassed as an American that you didn't get a visa. Thank you for your work!

Since we're doing this again...

Feynman wrote about his discovery that John Tukey, a brilliant mathematician (inventor of the FFT), had no internal monologue

The paper

Using patents to trace the evolution of US tech, 1840 - 2010

- 1840s: textiles/manufacturing dominates
- late 19th c: lots of balance
- 1920s-50s: plastics and chemical manufacturing boom
- post-1970s: communications—info and electronics—dominates unlike anything in 170 years

Alexis de Tocqueville on American women, writing in 1835:

“She thinks for herself, speaks with freedom, and acts on her own impulse. … She is full of reliance on her own strength. … It is rare that an American woman, at any age, displays childish timidity or ignorance. … I

I don’t care about your one vote. I care about you acting like these two men are equally bad. Which is absurd.

I never grow tired of the topic of commodities and their histories. A very well done piece on salt today by Dr Anton Howes
Age of Invention: The Second Soul, Part I
open.substack.com/pub/antonhowes…