I spent the last week driving the north coast, and my only companion was @Isabelwilkerson and her new (audio)book #Caste. It's massive, but I worked my way through it and can confirm that, as many critics have already reported, it's a masterwork. Well done, Isabel!

1/ It would be impossible to adequately summarize a magnum opus like this on Twitter, so I won't try. But I will say that, while much of the ground Wilkerson covers was familiar to me (and will be familiar to many or most of the people who will self-select to tackle it), her. . .2/

On a professional note, I have concluded my stint as #Oakland’s Interim City Administrator.

Needless to say — having been appointed on the day that the World Health Organization issued its pandemic declaration — this assignment didn’t go as expected. 1/8 I thought I’d spend my months in Oakland discussing the important issues of the day with the Mayor and councilmembers in their offices and districts; eating lunches in Oakland’s many restaurants; riding along with police, fire, and public works crews; browsing libraries...

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