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Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler
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I love that @jack did a 10-day Vipassana retreat and also his product and company are literally the most antithetical experience in the entire world to everything that Vipassana retreats stand for.
Like, if he redesigned Twitter the product from the perspective of a Vipassana retreat, every time I’d have an urge to tweet, the app would put Goenka on speakerphone to say “START AGAIN!!!” and then it would ask me to notice and observe all sensations until they dissipated away.
And then maybe 10 days and only two meals a day and 6 hours of sleep every single night for 10 nights later, maybe I could say something.
Also, this much more serious juxtaposition:
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Take a look at San Jose's sale of land to Google exactly one month ago: mercurynews.com/2018/12/04/san…
Why did they do this? Well, actually, San Jose has a housing surplus (!) compared to neighboring Santa Clara County cities. Shouldn't that be exciting? sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&…
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In Japan, train companies can earn revenue from rents in surrounding station areas on top of fares. In CA, we can invest billions in infrastructure and subsequent spikes in nearby land/property values are captured almost wholly by the people who happen to own nearby property.
Here, read @e_jaffe: citylab.com/transportation…
.@SFBART and @Caltrain have some of the best farebox recovery ratios in North America but you really need the land rent/land value capture + density to make the #s and system work well. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_r…
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Never forget. From a May 20, 1978 newspaper clipping. Universities used to be free in California until the homeowners cut and capped their property taxes 40 years ago. That generation of voters chose to indebt you in your tuition and housing costs.
Two weeks after its passage, Ronald Reagan, who hadn't taken a strong position on it earlier in the spring, used Prop. 13's win to argue that the whole federal tax system should be changed in its image. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1…
Let's look at the very bottom of this NYTimes story. While Reagan was planning his presidential run, what was @jerrybrowngov (also the governor of California 40 years ago) doing? Oh, bailing out the entire public school system in the wake of Prop. 13's passage.
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I agree with and admire people whose sincere goal is to have a more equitable distribution of wealth in society.

I disagree that a heavy-handed government intervention in the market is a good way to achieve a more equitable society. Allow me to explain.
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I'm watching too many sistas I love on my TL apologetically Tweeting for enjoying this wedding, and I'm not having it.

We have nothing to apologize for.

Entire world is uncomfortable when Black women & girls & femmes enjoy things.
I like what I like. I love what I love.

Never cared what folks thought about it... remember, I'm a Gen-X Black nerd. Never listened to those who said what made me smile was "White" or "corny" or whatever.

You have opinions. So do I, and they're just as valid.
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Just like the new Duchess of Sussex! 👑

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