* “If Elizabeth Warren really wants to unrig the system, she should focus on the Dream Hoarders.” The big problems are restrictive, exclusionary zoning and restrictive, exclusionary occupational licensure—both things that large swaths of the upper middle class really like and fight to entrench. Warren will not alienate her own base with real change, when there are convenient bogeymen to attack instead. It is always appealing to make someone else the villain and ensure us that we’re the good guys and we just need to get those bad guys over there.
* Forget It, Jake: It’s the Definitive Book on Chinatown.
* Reasons not to become famous, by Tim Ferriss.
* Let’s quit fetishizing the single-family home. The author has had some bad takes that demonstrate a lack of intellectual curiosity, but this one is good.
* “Something Is Happening to Norway” Climate change is here, now, and our collective response is to shrug.
* Over-long piece covering the decline of journalism. I’ve read too many like it, but this is another.
* Ross Douthat’s new book on the age of decadence. Recommended.
* No one seems to have a good theory about why the economy is still relatively strong.
* “‘We’re losing our damn minds’: James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party.” A useful piece and congruent with my thinking.
* “Librem 5 phone hands-on—Open source phone shows the cost of being different.” I like the Librem 5 as an idea but it is still very far from being usable.
* Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy.
* Was the nuclear family a mistake? A fascinating essay on loneliness, community, zoning, and many other topics.
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