What the surface hides.
Recent Writing
GovernanceWhen Growth Prices Out the People Who Keep a Town Alive
Small towns do not become unaffordable all at once. They lose affordability through early signals: longer commutes, rising rents, unfilled jobs, and young residents quietly concluding that there is no room for them to remain.
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I write about everything that becomes visible when life touches a system: law, institutions, cities, mobility, money, health, language, weather, power, and the strange little errors that reveal how the world is built.