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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Good post- however I believe the phrase “Five Cities in the Middle of Nowhere” came from Warren Leslie’s remarkable post-Kennedy assassination anatomy of the reactionary Dallas power structure and the Citizens Council, Dallas Public and Private, all the more remarkable since Warren Leslie was an Executive VP and and primary spokesman for Neiman-Marcus at the time.
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  3. I don’t have any illusions about that but I don’t think Dallas gets enough credit for getting shit done. The best and most accurate description of Dallas I’ve ever read is from 1964- “five cities in the middle of nowhere.” Where Austin is and was an embarrassment of natural riches and advantage that manages to achieve very little, Dallas had nothing other than collective hustle and the will to become a world-center of industry and commerce, a great city. And it did. Something to be said for that. I often defend Austin’s city government on here because people act like there’s some secret inner working or cabal in charge and that’s fantasy. Virtually anyone can step into the arena in Austin and make a big difference, but people in this city are mostly too lazy and cynical to do it. Austin’s not corrupt in a meaningful way, just myopic and small minded. This logo exercise is a good example. They just think too small.
  4. Oh yeah. Big time. Not a fan of Johnson but we’ve done worse. And besides, since Dallas is not a strong mayor city (and neither is Austin, Mashallah!) he doesn’t actually manage anything.
  5. Fifty and they hit it out of the park, too. As always, Dallas does everything about being a city better than Austin and decades earlier. Probably because it has much smarter voters and far stronger civic leadership both inside and outside of city government.
  6. $1.1mm? That’s WAAAY too cheap for a consultant grift. This is just a poorly executed design.
  7. She’s not wrong, but only half of that is spent externally. The rest is cost that will get deployed going forward.
  8. $570k- $200k for the actual design work and the balance for engagement. Actually rebranding stuff with it will cost another $500kish. So, this isn’t a high dollar project for this kind of work. But the result is Fiverr level circa 2010.
  9. They spent about $500k on this and the majority was on engagement as opposed to design hours. So… pretty much.
  10. Avocado oil is fantastic and has become the default for all uses in my kitchen that involve cooking with unsaturated fat except for those that specifically require others, eg sesame.
  11. As branding exercises go, this wasn’t terribly expensive and I don’t get bent out of shape by small potatoes expenses but the result here is absurd and somebody in the CM’s office should have redirected this or better yet, done it in-house. This bears all the marks of overthinking engagement and feedback during the process. The firms involved should have insisted on a better outcome.
  12. This new unified brand is … wow.
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  14. I love Mazda’s commitment to impractical ideas Mazda just patented a 6 stroke engine that makes its own hydrogen from gasoline
  15. Gotta stay away from le figaro, man. It’s just a whole different game of pétanque in there.
  16. 340/369 is disappointing to you? In a Mazda CX-90? I mean…those are tuned N54 numbers.
  17. What’s a 15 yr jumbo fixed going for today?
  18. He’s good at holding the caucus together and whipping a vote. That’s the job. Nancy Pelosi was a below average communicator and she’s the GOAT. Jeffries’ limitations are only important because the party has a number of would-be national leaders gearing up for a presidential run and they are all at the state level.
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  20. They were Papa John’s. And expected he would have some left over.
  21. It wont be utilized at all because the legislature, the governor, and their party won’t let it happen. If you think the government should stop private industry from taking a risk on a product the market says it wants, you’re winning, because that’s what they are doing. But for the record every legitimate piece of market research that’s been done on this and every point of comparison where high speed rail exists makes the argument that it be popular in Texas.
  22. Exactly. If an air route between two places is viable, HSR is almost certain to thrive.
  23. Lol, that was not my takeaway so much, and I actually thought that was a bit of a flaw in the book. The combination of concentrated risk and ownership of assets that scale and appreciate exponentially to the investment of time and money you put in is what gets a person from level 4 to level 5. And, it’s true that most people who achieve it through small business ownership. But I thought he pressed that path a little too strongly, compared to other paths, such as early stage equity in startups that do well. That brings up something I really liked about the later parts of the book. Making that move from 4-5 comes with a ton of risk, a shitload of stress, and has limited upside unless you REALLY want the things that ONLY come with that level of wealth, and are willing to make the trade.
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