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·Mar 10, 2020

Introducing: Honest Wheels

Choosing Your Next Car with Confidence — 40 million used cars are sold in the United States, every year. Outside of dense cities like New York and San Francisco, people still need cars to get around. …

Cars

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Introducing: Honest Wheels
Introducing: Honest Wheels
Cars

5 min read


Feb 7, 2019

The Twilight of the Sedans

…and Four More Automotive Observations — 2018 US automotive sales data reveals significant trends and changes in the American market: Crossovers are King, Sedans are Dead A Few Models Deliver Most Sales for Many Brands American Brands Own Trucks Tesla Did Better than You Might Think Strong Brands Had a Great Year Crossovers are King, Sedans are Dead The rise of crossovers…

Cars

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The Twilight of the Sedans
The Twilight of the Sedans
Cars

8 min read


Jan 31, 2019

Mobility’s Past is Prologue

Twenty-first-century prospects for twentieth-century vehicles — Although large, private cars dominated mobility in the twentieth century, cars didn’t win the contest completely. Here and there, especially when resources were scarce after the Second World War, designers, engineers, and companies experimented with smaller, lighter, and more focused vehicles to help move people and goods. Today, there’s a…

Self Driving Cars

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Mobility’s Past is Prologue
Mobility’s Past is Prologue
Self Driving Cars

9 min read


Jan 10, 2019

The U.S. is Going to Get Rid of 110 Million Cars. Here’s Why:

Predicting the market for privately-owned cars in 2038 — 2018 has been an exciting year for the future of transportation. How will we get around in twenty years, after all? Will autonomous vehicles take over our streets with hundreds of millions of robots roaming our cities and land without human intervention? Maybe all our cars will be replaced by…

Self Driving Cars

9 min read

The U.S. is Going to Get Rid of 110 Million Cars. Here’s Why:
The U.S. is Going to Get Rid of 110 Million Cars. Here’s Why:
Self Driving Cars

9 min read


Dec 12, 2018

How To Make $10,000 Without Even Trying

All you have to do is move to Tulsa (Part 2 of 19,351) — Tulsa, Oklahoma, has invested in an innovative tactic to encourage people to move to the city: pay them $10,000. The program, called Tulsa Remote, seeks to relocate 20–25 individuals with location-flexible jobs to the Tulsa area. If you make it through the selection process (which includes an application, an interview…

Tulsa

10 min read

How To Make $10,000 Without Even Trying
How To Make $10,000 Without Even Trying
Tulsa

10 min read


Dec 5, 2018

Is Density Your Destiny?

Finding tomorrow’s favored cities with today’s data — The year is 2038. President Ocasio-Cortez is two years into her first term. Hurricanes regularly strafe the Eastern Seaboard while fires and droughts ravage the West. You’re ready to move somewhere safe and new, one of those popular cities that everyone’s moving to: Joliet, Newburgh, Eugene, or maybe even Iowa…

Cities

12 min read

Is Density Your Destiny?
Is Density Your Destiny?
Cities

12 min read


Nov 28, 2018

We’ll Always Have Hamtramck

On the recent GM plant closures — While Ford CEO Jim Hackett waffles on his “mysterious ‘fitness’ plan”, GM CEO Mary Barra showed him how to do layoffs: with no prologue, 15,000 jobs gone, six models axed, and five factories closed. These closures may seem odd given GM’s recent financial successes — strong sales of crossovers have…

Tesla

10 min read

We’ll Always Have Hamtramck
We’ll Always Have Hamtramck
Tesla

10 min read


Nov 20, 2018

Yes, There Really Is A Kalamazoo, Michigan

Part 1 of a 19,351-Part Series — In 1942, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (“the most popular and commercially successful dance orchestra of the Swing era”) recorded the number one song “(I’ve Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo”—the best selling single in the US that year. This post isn’t about Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. Kalamazoo is a…

Travel

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Yes, There Really Is A Kalamazoo, Michigan
Yes, There Really Is A Kalamazoo, Michigan
Travel

7 min read


Nov 12, 2018

America’s Most Bookish Cities

What 1,841 bookstores tell us about the character of 896 cities — You can’t judge a book by its cover. You might, however, be able to judge a city by its bookstores. I recently wrote about the increasing need to escape from New York and San Francisco to other cities in America. Of the thousands of ways to search for substitute cities…

Cities

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America’s Most Bookish Cities
America’s Most Bookish Cities
Cities

6 min read


Oct 23, 2018

Escape From New York and San Francisco

Is It Time to Move On? — Some people will never leave New York and San Francisco. These two cultural capitals will always attract the attention of investors, entrepreneurs, newcomers, tourists, and storytellers, across the country and around the world. I wish them all the best, truly. However, plenty of us are thinking of leaving and going…

Housing

9 min read

Escape From New York and San Francisco
Escape From New York and San Francisco
Housing

9 min read

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