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Who Are You Wearing? (opens the original)
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I was going to take the weekend off from Substack. But this story in the New York Times caught my eye. The article is by Vanessa Friedman who “has been chronicling the relationship of clothing to identity, power and politics for The Times since 2014.”The story begins this way:When I meet Mark Zuckerberg, currently one of the poster boys for evil tech billionaires, a man whose products are used by about <a href="https://www.meta.com/technologies/?srsltid=AU7gw4WBXoMpX4byD-OhB5VT9mcrtjty4EE_SoUs4y
Immortal Engines (opens the original)
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In the spring of 2013, I decided to quit my job as the communications manager for the Juvenile Welfare Board and become a consultant. My son was about a year old. My oldest was only three. In hindsight, this was bananas.My consultancy provided general communications services. But my specialty was helping non-profits develop social media strategies, create content, plot content calendars, and find creative ways to tell their stories online. After the economic crash of ‘08,
Twenty-Five Years On: Still Running, Still Writing (opens the original)
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These quiet Autumn days, My soul, like Noah’s dove, on airy wingsGoes out and searches for the hidden thingsBeyond the hills of haze.from Searching, by Ella Wheeler WilcoxI think most of us who have a Substack, or really any sort of creative outlet, and experienced the events of 9/11 have written a commemoration post, particularly as this is the 25th anniversary. If you want to read what it was like for me and my first wife to move to New York City the weekend after 9/11, you can find it behin
Build Your Legacy With Care (opens the original)
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I had the extraordinarily good fortune this week of having lunch with a friend who died earlier this year. (Not Kevin.)Which is to say, this person went through the actual process of dying. Everything vital in his body ceased to function. His heart stopped beating. He was swimming at the time, so his lungs filled with water and thus stopped working. He was completely unconscious and non-responsive. He was, by any measure, dead. He was brought back to life by several remarkable —
Guest Commentary: The Rays Stadium Saga (opens the original)
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After my post on places last weekend, I was thinking about the Hillsborough and City of Tampa votes on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium, wondering if there was anything to say about it. Or even how to say anything about it. I’m not a stadium expert, so I was struggling. Lucky for me, I don’t have to say anything at all. Kevin King was there, every step of the way, in the Kriseman Administration when it came to the Rays. If you have been following the long
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