HeyJaredSundee Williams
I write at the edge where Gen X women and the world collide. On Time. On Purpose. On My Own Terms.
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Counted Correctly, Described Wrong (opens the original)
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Jim VandeHei, co-founder of Politico and CEO of Axios, said something in a recent interview that I’ve been carrying for days. He said he worries less about income inequality than about information inequality. It’s the best two-word description of what I do for a living that I’ve heard from anyone, and I didn’t have it before he said it.Then, about twenty minutes later in the same conversation, he proved it.<a class="button primary" href="https://sundeewilliams.substack.com/p/counted-correctly-de
The Job Fair Worked. Nobody Can Say What Happened Next. (opens the original)
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Someone asked on Facebook today if anybody got hired at the job fair. Simple question. Nobody could answer it.I happen to know one employer hired people that day, because I’d made the contact myself back in July and followed up in person. That’s one data point, from one conversation, that exists because I went looking for it. It doesn’t exist anywhere else. Not with the college that hosted the event, not with the county, not with any system built to know.Call that a win for the metric that gets
Starting Over at 55: The Numbers I Almost Didn't Trust (opens the original)
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Driving Thoughts: August 20, 2026I’ve been listening to Dan Coe again and doing the thing I always do: calculate the math on somebody else’s success, and asking myself, is it truly this simple? Ten thousand followers. A hundred grand a year. Replaced a whole salary with fifty thousand YouTube subscribers.I’ve heard some version of this for ten years now, always from a guy, always sounding like a formula. And I’ve talked myself out of it every single time. Print-on-demand books, designing station
What Stone County, Mississippi Is Missing (opens the original)
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In a small Mississippi county with limited capital and real unmet needs, the question isn’t what business can survive here, but rather, what kinds of places would make daily life better.What do you wish we had more of in Stone County?My reason for asking has less to do with the businesses we do have and more to do with how many versions of the same thing we seem willing to make room for. Gas stations are the easiest example. We clearly know how to accommodate businesses that fit an existing patt
The Day After the Fourth (opens the original)
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The Fourth reminds us what we love. July 5th asks what love requires. This is a reflection on patriotism, grief, memory, and the local work of repairing what national power keeps breaking.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="102
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