HeyJaredEscaping GENERICA
Why do our communities all look the same? Why can't we build what we actually want? Essays exploring the forces that shape the places we live.
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- Sep 22, 2026
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What the Universe Knows About Cities: Why the Corner That Already Has Three Businesses Is the Only One Worth Feeding (opens the original)
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Being OF the Water, Not ON It (opens the original)
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The Four Horsemen of the Clipboard (opens the original)
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The Friction Floor: Why the neighborhood I defended felt like too much work (opens the original)
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The Golden Shovel Fallacy: Why We Celebrate Giants and Ignore the Invisible Builder Three Blocks Away (opens the original)
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“ Every community has a Mike—the local builder who doesn’t get the golden shovel or the photo op. He’s just trying to add four units to the neighborhood while fighting the same bureaucratic buzzsaw as the mega-developer, but without the legal team. We’ve made the real solution illegal.”<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5wQe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08ed4
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