HeyJaredBuild ▸ Order
Build ▸ Order is a podcast and essay series about why certain things grow in certain cities. First Build: Austin.
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Deep Dive 003: Viva Las Vegas! — Would You Bet on the House? (opens the original)
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Before we place any bets at Blueprint, we figured we should underwrite the house. So, in a radical act of conference preparation, we studied the city where the conference is happening.Get excited, Blueprint gang. Build Order is going to Las Vegas!Come watch the show:“What Happens in Vegas Happened on Purpose: How to Underwrite a City” on Wednesday, September 23rd from 3:45 to 4:00 pm on the Innovation Stage “Betting on Vegas: What Housing Demand Says About What Comes Next” on Thursday, September
Stand On Your Desks! Ah, Not Actually Helping (opens the original)
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The first thing Mrs. Diehl ever did was write a death threat on the chalkboard.She didn’t say hello. Didn’t take attendance. She walked into first-period biology, picked up the chalk, and wrote out her last name in block capitals:D-I-E-H-L.Then she turned around and looked at us. Not at the room, but at us, one at a time, going down the rows, in a way that made twenty-eight freshman simultaneously decide this was a good time to stop breathing. And she said, very calmly, that it was pronounced “D
Austin 009: Cities Don't Actually Need Good Public Schools... Do They? (opens the original)
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Here is a thing you can do if you are a large American city. You can have a bad public school system. Not mediocre — bad, really bad, the kind that makes the newspaper. And then you can keep growing anyway, for decades, while people move to you on purpose and pay a lot of money to do it.New York does this. So do Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Every one of them is ringed by suburban districts that are genuinely excellent and that families relocate specifically to get into, and every one of t
Lansing Has the Ingredients. Why Haven’t They Added Up? (opens the original)
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Lansing’s origin story feels appropriately chaotic for a city we found by accident.It began as a planned settlement called Biddle City, allegedly pitched to New Yorkers with drawings that looked nothing like the swamp they arrived to find. Michigan later made this settlement of fewer than 20 people its state capital. In reply, critics called it a “howling wilderness.”Nearly 180 years later, Lansing caught our attention for a different reason. Our capital city screen surfaced an unusual combinati
Deep Dive 002: Lansing — Can Michigan’s Capital Become an Innovation Hub? (opens the original)
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Build Order’s second City Deep Dive takes us to Lansing, Michigan.We first noticed Lansing while researching America’s state capitals. It has what we called the floor and the flywheel: the durable institutional base of a capital city, paired with one of the nation’s largest research universities. On paper, that’s the kind of combination that has propelled cities like Austin and Raleigh onto the national stage.But strong ingredients don’t automatically produce growth.So we wanted to understand wh
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