Brendan Greeley

Like, my kids know that I'm grump on Sunday afternoons because that is my Dedicated Customer Service Time

Solidarity, my friend. I just cancelled a former exchange student's account on Mint Mobile, which took a 30-minute phone call.

So I'm convinced that people keep voting for whatever change candidate is offered them in America because every customer service interaction is confusing and enraging by design.

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Thank you so much for this!

A short history of my time among crypto boosters

I see you, Sam Potts!

Massively helpful, thanks!

Thanks!

London friends: I am looking for a neighborhood to rent a studio for a stretch for archival work. It would be a no-transfer 30-45 minute train ride from The City, but I don't want to be miserable when I'm done with work and get home. Where do I rent?

Over the course of their career history majors out earn engineers and comp sci.

I'm paraphrasing, but a long time ago at an event @hodgman.bsky.social said that he knew a lot of people who had written books, none of them were rich, but they all had better posture. I think about that, like, once a week.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Most regular folks don't wake up worrying about institutions. They have more immediate concerns.

But once you live through a period when core institutions fail, you start paying attention, and historical memory is rebuilt for a time.

We're going through one of those moments now.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

A whole passage rests on the episode in 2019 when Trump attacked Powell during Jackson Hole. I framed it as a curious but illuminating episode in the history of central bank independence and now...

If the dollar could just hold on until my dollar book comes out in May, that would awesome

Is it possible to create agencies in exile? To privately fund a nonprofit Organization for Public Broadcasting, to hold on to institutional knowledge? A private nonprofit Endowment for the Humanities, a Science Foundation, an Institute of Health, that could one day become National again?

Lovely, from one of public radio's finest voices working today

Mary's piece is beautiful and true. As an aside, my first two jobs as a journalist were in public radio. Both were new projects, experiments supported by the CPB. Public radio takes risks, and trains the people who move on to other newsrooms.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the website to reserve campsites at national parks. Anyone who says AI can or should improve recreation.gov does not own a tent.

Massively helpful thread on ADHD in the academy, which I am anecdotally guessing is about three quarters of us.

In 1991 I faked an AP English summer assignment by playing Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights to the class and asking them to analyze it with me. I still today run into people who are annoyed with me about it.

Ah! Thank you, this is useful. I have been relying on a bunch of mid-century Archives of Maryland summaries that make a big deal out of it, but those summaries can be a little judgy.

Frederick Pottle was more than a little charmed by the story of Lord Baltimore.

FREDERICK A. POTTLE, SCHOLAR AND EDITOR OF BOSWELL PAPERS (Published 1987)

Frederick Pottle was a giant! I love the collections of Boswell's writings that he edited for Yale. The London journals are a fucking hoot! I'm going to try to post Pottle's obit here and now and I'll raise a glass to him later. www.nytimes.com/1987/05/19/o...

Nah. Nothing but patience and therapy from my editor. It was trying to understand, simplify and explain the historiography of money that broke me.

Intro to my manuscript: "This book broke me a little."
Note from my editor: "This is an understatement. But it's also too personal for the book."

... [Lord Baltimore] was an Englishman, and that when he was called upon to give an account of his sexual arrangements, if he could not settle the matter with his fists, it was his practice to set out instantly on his travels again."