I moved to Aberdeen, Washington about 4.5 years ago in September 2017 to get myself back into housing after nearly six years of homelessness... | Continue reading
This is my current wallpaper on my laptop: A few weeks back there was a nice photo on Bing (free to use as wallpaper) of buildings fro... | Continue reading
In the 1980s, starter homes made up about 40 percent of new housing. Now it's around 7 percent. The above screenshot and stats are f... | Continue reading
There was a village that believed in the idea of The Lucky Jaguar. When a jaguar appeared near the village, a village elder instructed peopl... | Continue reading
The opening sentence of Jane Jacobs' book The Death and Life of Great American Cities is "This is an attack on urban planning." The followi... | Continue reading
Negotiating is a very human thing, which means it is messy and complicated and involves understanding a lot of psychology. What people wa... | Continue reading
In May of 2020, I took over a dead sub for my small town of Aberdeen, Washington called r/aberdeenwa. I think it had like 9 members when I f... | Continue reading
In January 2020, I wrote a comment on Hacker News that said in part: When your caterpillar morphs into a butterfly, harping on how your ... | Continue reading
One of my early career dreams was image consultant . I grew up in a family where clothes was a big deal and dressing well mattered to me for... | Continue reading
People hate change. They have something of a tendency to dig their heels in and be against it just because it is new and different. They as... | Continue reading
Yeas ago, I was involved with The TAG Project . Maybe a year or so after I joined one of their email lists, Valorie King (the project founde... | Continue reading
I love the scene in Aliens where Ripley says "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit." While others are freaking out, she si... | Continue reading
Design Word: Vernacular Historically, architecture and culture were strongly shaped by local geography and weather. The term typically ap... | Continue reading
We should have policies to make the poor less poor. Unfortunately, policies explicitly aimed at trying to make the poor less poor typica... | Continue reading
Community beautification programs are fairly popular and they typically involve adding greenery, picking up litter and that sort of thing. T... | Continue reading
61% of employees rank health benefits as one of their top-three factors for a job search. Years ago, I worked for the insurance giant Afl... | Continue reading
An unincorporated community may have a lower cost of living and less regulatory burden than an incorporated city. For some people, this can ... | Continue reading
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution The above quote is known as The Shirky Principle (and the con... | Continue reading
This will mostly be about Reddit. I like Reddit, but if you are more familiar with Facebook or Google Groups or something else, you may want... | Continue reading
If you are in a small community, you may feel that "planning and development" work are out of reach. You may feel you simply don't have the ... | Continue reading
If you are trying to do economic development for a small community, you need a website. If you are a small business in a small community and... | Continue reading
Eclogiselle is intended to be a compendium of free resources for small communities with paid services available below $5000. In fact, I hope... | Continue reading