Subprime attention and the end of your free Gmail account
You may not care about online advertising as an industry. But what about your free Gmail account? YouTube? It gets worse.
200 years of Indianapolis
How could I not write about the bicentennial of my adopted home of Indianapolis? What a year for a 200th birthday. Indy, you don’t look a day over 190.
Police reforms and the problems they face
I’m still mulling these thoughts over. But I’m starting to hear and learn about some of the demands of protesters that go beyond broad cultural issues.
Mitch Daniels’ commencement speech: “Absent a little special effort, you will rarely make friends different from yourselves”
“I’m concerned you won’t make friends at all,” he says. This to an audience connected almost constantly by phones. His general advice is to turn off your phone, tune out video screens, and have more personal contact with people.
The sadness I feel about COVID-19
The sad thing among many sad things right now is that many things are actually kinda better.