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meaning, place, community. Click to read Apropos, by Santi, a Substack publication.

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2026 4

  1. The State Has Plans for You
  2. Civilization Is Not the Default. Violence Is.
  3. Open Loops
  4. The Invention of the Nation-State

2025 39

  1. Not Faith, Exactly
  2. Notes on Bhutan
  3. What I Learned Publishing an Essay Every Day for 30 Days
  4. The Coming Multipolar Future
  5. Peter Thiel on the Limits of Liberalism
  6. The Definitive Guide to the World's Best Cities
  7. Vernacular Fashion
  8. Yes, we're going to die.
  9. Beliefs Have Consequences
  10. On Taste
  11. China is eating the world
  12. We Are Victims of Our Own Abundance
  13. The 10% Theory of History
  14. Bring Back 17th Century Coffeehouses
  15. The Non-Definitive Guide to Vernacular Architecture in Yunnan
  16. How Not to Become Disneyland
  17. The Salieri Impulse
  18. Unbundling Higher Education
  19. My Favorite Problems
  20. An Ode to Second Acts
  21. Even More On Gardens
  22. More On Gardens
  23. On Gardens
  24. Am I Mexican enough?
  25. In Praise of Idleness
  26. It's one of those days...
  27. Choosing Where to Live
  28. English as the Internet's Language
  29. Reclaiming Social Media
  30. On our complicated relationship with nature
  31. I'm no longer young
  32. The Freedom in Committing
  33. Ideas want to come out
  34. Adiós Madrid, สวัสดีครับ Bangkok
  35. On Taste
  36. Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morality"
  37. The Great Books
  38. The next chapter of this blog
  39. Look

2024 4

  1. Leap into action
  2. I Want to Buy Some Land
  3. On third places
  4. Reflections From Two Pop-Up Cities

2023 15

  1. Let's build a common ground
  2. Humanity is not natural
  3. Cities Have Souls
  4. Yes, we're going to die.
  5. Unbundling Higher Education
  6. Re-Imagining Buildings
  7. In Praise of Trees
  8. How To Create Livable Cities
  9. Imagine saying Yes.
  10. Bring Back 17th Century Coffeehouses
  11. The Unlived Life
  12. San Sebastian
  13. On Gentrification
  14. Book Review Part 3: Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"
  15. Book Review Part 2: Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"

2022 2

  1. Book Review: "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs
  2. New beginnings, again.

2020 2

  1. Living in Interesting Times. Part 3: The Rise of China
  2. Living in Interesting Times. Part 2: The Political Zeitgeist

2019 1

  1. Living in Interesting Times. Part 1: It's the economy, stupid!