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Scott Martin
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Scott Martin
@smartin_scott
“It was a dark and stormy night at the Piggly Wiggly. . .” and other land and landscape musings. Go Boise State! These are my personal posts.
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@aaron_renn @mihirpshah Live oaks. Undefeated in aura and vibe, no?
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@kevin_hiatt Our ability to understand and deploy math stands in stark contrast to our capacity to understand each other and work together as people.
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The Integrity entered earth's atmosphere at more than 24k mph (Mach 32+). It hit the water in its splashdown at between 17-20mph.
The brilliance that went into something so ancillary as slowing the vehicle's speed upon entry is beyond amazing. I am constantly in awe of humanity.
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So true. And yet in much public policy, the fights are what keep people going and engaged, not a successful product or outcome at the end. Some folks are just sitting around for the next fight.
Startup Archive@StartupArchive_
Steve Jobs on what John Sculley didn’t understand about building great products “One of the things that really hurt Apple was, after I left, John Sculley got a very serious disease. And that disease—I’ve seen other people get it too—is the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work.” But that’s never the case. As Steve explains, a product idea never turns out as originally conceived because you learn a lot from the details of building it, and there are always tradeoffs you have to make. “There’s a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a great idea and a great product… and it’s that process that is the magic.” He compares a team working hard on something they’re passionate about to a rock tumbler: “It's through the team--through a group of incredibly talented people--bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together... they polish each other and polish the ideas. And what comes out are these really beautiful stones.”
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Oh, and for those of you posting death threats and other insults, I am deeply wounded and I shall never recover for having been insulted by a stranger on the internet who is butt hurt over something another stranger said on the internet.
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The worst thing about how the South lost the Civil War is that we did not punish the Confederate leaders appropriately. It’s a mistake we still haven’t learned and it haunts our politics to this day.
Boston@BostonMassUSA
Confederate Army surrendered 161 years ago today, April 9, 1865.
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Philly, DC, SF, Boston, and Chicago - real cities by American standards but not global cities. We should have at least 2-3 NYCs in the east, 2-3 in middle, and 2-3 in the west. Basically what if the US invested massively in electrified rail instead of highways.
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@idahofamfarm1 @LunalNewport Boise is awesome. And much of its awesomeness was made possible because of Cecil Andrus and his leadership.
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@LunalNewport Boise is great because of the people who made it that way. Conservative ag folk. Don't destroy it. If you love it then fight to preserve it. Don't turn it into another crap pile that needs a poop app. Vote red.
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Conservatives buy property in Boise if you can. Also we need a new mayor. The election is 2028. Freakin college towns I swear.
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@ProducerCities If equity is leaving, it also means investment into those “outbound” areas is also continuing, right?
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Where is the Spokane for Austin? "It’s a proud & pretty big city that’s historically an important regional center, which coming into conflict with that tsunami of home equity that is flowing eastward out of the West Coast" futureofwhere.substack.com/p/all-the-next…
Jim Russell@ProducerCities
The Next Affordable City Is Already Too Expensive: "The sharks flee NYC & LA & gobble up the housing in Austin & Portland, whose priced-out home buyers swim to the cheaper feeding grounds of places like Spokane" [2022] nytimes.com/2022/02/20/bus…
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@GetOnTap People may have different takes on how best we should try and solve problems and maximize opportunities, but 90% of the folks in Newport News and Grundy are really aligned in the values they live everyday. With that said, 10% are always out to lunch.
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@GetOnTap 10% are blasting away on social media, completely absorbed by politics. The remainder are trying to save for a house/retirement, get kids to soccer practice, hug their loved ones, and gripe about roads/traffic, together.
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This is Virginia, but I don’t recognize it. We have nothing in common with the people of Virginia Beach, Richmond, or Northern Virginia. Never have, never will.
Why must we continue operating under people who encourage this sort of thing? They act like we are a leech in Appalachia, but get offended at the notion we break away and govern ourselves.
Make that make sense. x.com/mattvanswol/st…
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@PfalzCity Profit v. non-profit is simply a tax code distinction. The issue is the loss in capacity to mass capital ($$, ideas, community will). When consolidation happened, we’ve seen a corresponding reduction in our civic capacity to create leaders that work in place on problems.
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@smartin_scott Once upon a time, local businesses gave back to the cities they were headquartered in.
Today those companies have merged/moved away. There is no more local community support (ex: YUM Brands).
Enter nonprofits who are trying to find coins left in cushions to serve our community.
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Spot on. And the impacts are deep be you in Roanoke, Norfolk, or Richmond.
Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸@aaron_renn
How American Cities Lost Their Movers and Shakers - Corporate consolidation, globalized firms, and the rise of nonprofits quietly hollowed out the civic power that once built cities aaronrenn.com/p/civic-leader…
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@PfalzCity Well, I grew up in a city with 0 philanthropic activity for 100 years. Then I lived in a couple cities with strong philanthropic engagement over that same time frame. Guess which offer statistically better quality of lives, education, and opportunity today?
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@smartin_scott I get how globalization/consolidation of corporations play into weakened local structures, but how are nonprofits to blame here?
This really seems to long for the days when rich, white men in power families ruled the land & didn’t need to be concerned about women or minorities.
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You gotta have a number and a symbol now.
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Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Artemis II crew experiences issues with Microsoft Outlook on their way to the Moon, asks ground crew for assistance.
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@DanBorsch @danbayens Louisville makes the money, Lexington spends it
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Louisville got so much more money in the state budget than Lexington
GOP loves Craig Greenberg
courier-journal.com/story/news/pol…
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@LunalNewport And that during this time, many of our peers got “promoted” - TCU, Utah, BYU, Cinci, UCF, Houston.
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Friendly reminder that Chris Petersen left Boise State 13 years ago
PFSN College@PFSNcollege
Group of Six programs with the most NFL Draft selections in the last 10 years 💪 1️⃣ Boise State: 18 2️⃣ Temple: 16 3️⃣ Oregon State: 14 4️⃣ Tulane: 14 5️⃣ Memphis: 13 6️⃣ Western Michigan: 13 7️⃣ San Diego State: 12 8️⃣ Western Kentucky: 12
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@Nathan_26_ @BNNBroncoNation The portal era gets people so hyped about snagging buried-on-the-depth-chart P4 guys, but as a Boise State fan, I've always been stoked on these JuCo dudes. Have something to prove. In hindsight, people would be at the airport greeting Winston Venable
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If you’ve been reading my articles at @BNNBroncoNation, you know I’m all in on Kyle Hall at safety.
Looks like a total baller so far.
Boise State Football@BroncoSportsFB
Locked up. 🔒
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