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I recently bought a book, Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders, curated from these fragments.

Bill Russell. Won 9 championships as a Boston Celtic under legendary coach Red Auerbach, and alongside Hall of Famers like Bob Cousy. Then became the coach and starting center for …

It’s because there are tons of laws and regulations regarding minors in school, and administration tends to be homegrown (initial expertise in teaching) rather than explicitly deve…

I lifted or paraphrased the terms from the benefits that the author ascribes to kinship society; not sure how that’s buzzword-y unless you are referring to “individualist, capitali…

It’s interesting how this is framed as a “bad deal” (being apart of a kinship society) without taking time to breakdown the cost of being on your own in Ghanaian society, especiall…

I think the path to the values you allude to includes affirming when flawed leaders take a stance. Else it’s a race to the whataboutism bottom where we all, when forced to grapple …

Seems like you need this when you don't have agency to go find your preferred online group(s) which might be tied to larger personal challenges in healthy communication and product…

Thanks for the food for thought.

Citizens United, a few decades of subpar K-12 education and social media mis/disinformation have made this a tall task… not impossible, but a truly gargantuan challenge.

The top post is about property damage not flying over. This comment is in response to the idea that drone delivery is a democratically expressed need or want. I think it’s a corpor…

The presence and operation of drones on one’s personal property appears more corporatist in nature than democratic.

I’m a bit confused by your reply. Pretty sure the rulers of the Dahomey kingdom weren’t trading with people of the “Americas” but with Europeans, before and after its abolishment a…

Or the taxpayers foot the bill for keeping the inmate in prison while private interests (including but not limited to private prisons and select contractors) take additional profit…

I thought about that too, but I don’t think your resources matter much once you’re in the penal system except to bribe or pay for protection. Honestly I’m not sure how it would pan…

I agree with you on the ideal of equality. Practically speaking, even the option to be home bound if you have a home, apartment, or willing caretaker could be a serious blow to the…

I have a slightly different take that everything was really broken right before, but Covid and its response brought everything to bear. I see this play out a lot in ed reform polit…

This. Schools are not employers that can implement take it or leave it policies. You need coordination and agreement between school leadership, district leadership, staff, and most…

My great-grandmother’s home, those of her neighbors, and their church was bulldozed for the US75/I45 rebuild/connection in Dallas in the 1950s. They were given the choice of new pu…

I have been doing a lot of solo tinkering around this very idea —contextualizing learning for every middle school through college student according to their career and personal int…

If you reduce the choice to public funding vs wealthy alumni stewardship, and there seems to be no meaningful pathway to circumventing the current assault on public funding, then w…

You could replace “research” with nearly any term not undergirded by a direct profit motive (eg civics, politics, education, community health, urban planning). Or maybe it’s just (…

For context, I have done a lot of hacking mostly in JS throughout the years, but more recently in no/low code land, though I would never consider myself a SWE. I’m formally trained…

I recently tried a version of this landscape analysis within a space I understand very well (CA college access nonprofits) and was shocked at how few organizations were named, let …

This is somewhat akin to the U.S. government's SBIR grant program. Phase I (generally $250-500K for a year)to develop and pilot novel tech. Phase II ($1M) to develop scalable tech.…

In some respects, I agree. But they aren’t touching much that voters do care about and that’s where the overwhelming majority of spending comes from. Every valid path to actually r…