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kcmo dad of 3 | farm-bred urbanist | legal marketer | creative generalist | outdoor adventurer | 🧵@mstephenscreative
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Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together - reconciling Strong Towns and Abundance movement differences open.substack.com/pub/buildthene…
Hot take: “fast-paced environments” are hostile to ingenuity and creativity. Urgency is tyrannical.
KC peeps, I’m open for hire on a part-time, contract, or full-time basis. Let me help you build and execute thoughtful, data-informed marketing and comms strategy. // Learn more at mattstephenscreative.com. #kansascitycomms #kcmarketing
We need more building. If this continues, developers are going to build elsewhere. Investors are going to deploy capital elsewhere. I understand some red tape, but when the average permit issuance time is 3+ months we have a problem. @ChadGrittman @QuintonLucasKC @KansasCity
Don't miss KC Library's next installment in the Making a Great City lecture series, to be hosted at the Plaza Branch at 6pm, Tues, Sep 30. Chuck Marohn, founder of Strong Towns, will address the US’s housing affordability crisis. RSVP at kclibrary.org/events/housing….
A tad belated, but always timely: “Mental Health Awareness Month shouldn’t just be about personal coping strategies and mindfulness reminders. It should include a reckoning with the systems that make us sick in the first place.” fastcompany.com/91330344/car-b…
I now own my 2020 VW, free and clear! Payoff day feels great. 😊
You’re missing a crucial option, X: Followers only. Man, I am tired of blocking and deleting DMs from asinine accounts.
It's SQUARE DAY! Thanks to the good peeps at @theSMSD for helping our family know this fun fact. 3X3 = 9, 4X4 = 16, 5x5=25. Today is 9-16-25.
Thoughtfulness may well be my favorite trait a person can embody. Kindness is up there with it. If everyone were thoughtful and kind, the world would be alright.
En route from KC to Louisville, a solid 90% of motorists were driving 10+ mph above the speed limit (some much faster) *in construction zones* along I-70 and I-64. That’s not bad road design. That’s heartless insanity. Incredibly discouraging.
When you’re surrounded by conflict, day in and day out, is it neurotic to develop conflict avoidance? One would think a person might develop conflict tolerance—grit—after so much practice. Why, then, does it have the opposite effect on some of us?
You can think Democrats are a corrupt party that tried relentlessly to imprison and destroy Trump with every dirty political trick in the book and still criticize Trump’s actions as president. You can believe Trump is the greatest president we’ve ever had — a…
Sometimes (in the short run), efficiency looks like slowing down. However, the extra time upfront pays off in the long run.
New urbanist acronym: NIYFY — not in your front yard. I might be one of these. 🫣
In the United States, fire departments can demand that empirically safer street improvements be abandoned, so they can drive the largest possible vehicle quickly to accidents caused by… the unsafe streets.
In the Netherlands, road authorities can be held liable for accidents if their road design is worse than a known, empirically safer alternative youtube.com/watch?v=b4ya3V…
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If you discovered one morning that someone had trimmed your tree’s low-hanging branches or your shrub’s sidewalk-encroaching branches, would you be: A) thankful or B) annoyed ?
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