Possibilist newsletter

I followed one interesting thing into another, as usual, and somewhere along the way my life began moving again. How and why did that work? [Read this post on the web] [image 1: title frames from trailer for Wim Wenders' Im Lauf der Zeit ("In the Course of Time"; released in English as Kings of the Road), 1976] [image 2: portrait of German culture superstar, and founding father of the Bildungsroman novel: "Goethe in the Roman Campagna," by Johann Tischbein, 1787] The seed here was the...

You may have noticed that your Facebook feed is now full of posts from sources you don't know or didn't previously follow. Facebook has broadly shifted to these so-called "suggested posts," taking the "black box" quality of the experience to new levels, and basically, feeding you whatever it wants for who knows what reason.Maybe that's fine! and Facebook has our best interests at heart and knows our interests best. However, if you think, possibly not, there's actually a quick and powerful way...

Since mid-August, I've been travelling cross-continental, US-Canada, mobile dwelling; and mostly around Toronto since late September. As in early 2024, the opportunity arose to speak at the annual YIMBY ("pro-housing movement" / Yes In My Backyard) conference — this time, with a promised honorarium, modest for sure, but for me, ample pretext to set full sail indefinitely. As Huckleberry Finn said, in parting, I reckoned it was time to "light out for the Territory," to road-trip coast to...