Whether it’s about language learning, urban planning, or a recent favorite book I read, I hope my newsletter will make you think a little bit differently about the world.
Past Editions
2026
I’m Starting a Garden, of Questionable Legality
The Moment I Saw Through Vance: Housing, Talking Points, and the Great Man Myth
2025
The Root Cause of Latin American Immigration: 5 Centuries of Pillage
A New Climate Communication Playbook: 5 Strategies to Transform Our Environmental Discourse
The Bronx River Was Healing. Now The EPA Cut Its Funds.
Adding 1000 Gardens, Land Use, and the Biggest Problem With Car-Dependency
In Defense of Those Standing Up: On The Los Angeles Protests
Sunrise on the Reaping Analysis: Politics, Power, and the Fight to Share the Truth [Spoilers]
What The Young Lords Taught Me About Fighting for Change
What’s Holding Back the Community Garden Movement
Think Radically, Act Incrementally
2023
How to Be ‘Rich with Less’ (Why I Got Rid of All My Crap)
Lifestyle Moneyball: 10 Questions for a Better Life
How to Describe People: A Writing Lesson from Janet Malcolm (Use This Prompt)
“Great ones are willing to get burned time and again as they sharpen their swords in the fire.”
2022
How Word Choice Influences Policy and The Power of Personal Essays
The Nuyorican Poets and How to “Get” Poetry
The Secret Formula of Spongebob Memes (And How Aristotle Explains It)
Orwell is a Writer Worth Stealing
Self-loathing, reading in Spanish, and my second family
Reflections on Zafón’s Angel’s Game, Holiday’s Canvas Strategy, and How I Knew I Was Blunting My Creative Soul