mattstephenskc

Spoiler: If you're watching The Night Manager and haven't finished it, don't waste your time and emotional energy.

Sigh… I know. 😕

LOL, yes

Grrrr 🤨

Yeahhh, we suck in that regard.

Would be absolutely killer if KCK would join the effort and extend the improvements all the way to the Mission Rd. exit. That’s the primary stretch of SW Blvd I use.

Snow *removal,* friends 😍

Applications now open for the first-ever Active Mobility Leadership Lab | League of American Bicyclists The League of American Bicyclists is pleased to announce that applications are now open for a new training program for emerging and aspiring Bicycle Friendly Communities: the Active Mobility Leadershi...

Very cool opportunity with @bikeleague.org for local, county, or regional government leaders and staff. My KC peeps, who here locally needs to hear about this (assuming they haven't already)? bikeleague.org/applications...

Land Speculators vs. Developers: Why Communities Must Stop Rewarding Extraction & Start Enabling Those Who Actually Build Because Housing Matters.

Ahem, Kansas City Life Insurance Co. open.substack.com/pub/llmckinn...

(Just about) every bike in a bike lane is one less car on the road. Bike lanes ease congestion, even when their addition entails the removal of a car lane.

Source: Live to Ride, by Peter Flax.

Haters of terms like “cyclist” and “bicyclist,” how about “people who pedal”? 🤔

My retirement account is up 46% since April 2024. Is this typical? How y’all doing? #investing #retirement

Idea for KCMO public works: give notice to residents of when their specific streets will be plowed, and require that their vehicles be removed from said streets during said timeframe. Chicago does this, and it works brilliantly.

Capacity and leadership: a digital marketing burnout story, with lessons learned. An analogy

So, I started a Substack blog recently. Would love to have you as a loyal reader. See my latest here: open.substack.com/pub/mattstep...

So, we’re allowing—and subsidizing—the construction and operation of data centers, which exist to power technology that makes humans obsolete while expanding our carbon footprint and raising everyone’s electric bills.
Makes perfect sense.

Just saw that. I was expecting a notification via the app. Will check the website from now on.

Watched One Battle After Another last night after a couple of folks recommended it. It wasn’t very good. The dialogue (esp. DiCaprio’s) was belabored, the storyline moved too slowly and was disjointed, and parts were superfluous. Overall, it ran too long. The acting was decent, though.

Same. It’s weirdly infuriating.

Imagine if the Jackson Co, MO assessor’s office was competent enough to sync their payment records with their bill-issuing program. Would be wonderful not to receive bills in the mail that I paid weeks ago.

AI companies should subsidize energy for households, since they’re responsible for driving prices up.

To all the neurodivergents, the HSPs out there, muddling through the chaos, complexities, and hurry of the winter holidays, I see you. May the good moments and the enduring loves outweigh the discouraging and the stressful. May you find solace, comfort, and joy.

Nope.

The Gutenberg Moment Every communication revolution births chaos before it births order. Gutenberg's press collapsed the gatekeepers of knowledge in the fifteenth century—and it took centuries of war, displacement, and in...

Thought-provoking read from @clmarohn.bsky.social: www.panoptica.ai/the-gutenber...

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For real.

SMSD et al, early release is the wrong call. Give road crews more time to clear the snow. Releasing the students during the worst conditions is negligent.

The National Guard shooting. Plus, is the stock market in an AI bubble?

"in a pluralistic society, where we are granted robust freedoms and welcome people from all walks of life, tragedies like this are impossible to prevent with any single remedy. That reality...demands that we allow for more than one narrative when looking for a solution." bit.ly/3Mx0KgU

The National Guard shooting. Plus, is the stock market in an AI bubble?

"when you look past the partisan narratives, you find a complicated story that shows just how hard it is to reduce violent attacks to any one issue." www.readtangle.com/the-national...

Any of my KC peeps have a top-notch electrician, skilled in working in old homes, that they could recommend?