Mike Bloomberg’s decision to commit $500 million to launch his Beyond Carbon campaign is, in one sense, exactly the kind of escalation in funding that climate change demands. At the same time, it has the potential to reverberate throughout climate action, influencing the kind of work being done in a way we’ve rarely seen from a donor. 

For Boston’s working-class communities of color, the city’s economy is not working. That’s evidenced by a shocking racial wealth gap—the median net worth for black households is just $8, compared to $247,500 for white households. As in many cities, when economic development does happen in these neighborhoods, it often displaces, rather than benefits existing residents.

The Boston Ujima Project is a unique initiative posing the question of just what it would take to make a lasting change to that deep inequality—combining philanthropy, investing and organizing to build wealth in a way that benefits and is guided by communities. 

I think a lot about this Jason Isbell interview from a while back, where he talks about what it’s like being a country music singer who writes about politics and topics like racism in the South.

I have this tailor who is like the best tailor in Boston, although this is a heated debate. For years, I had never really used a true tailor, just the ones that work at suit stores, sorry no offense to those guys. But when I got married a few years back, I wanted to get it done right. I had heard once that if you get it tailored right, even a pretty cheap suit can look great. So I bought a light grey suit, nothing fancy, few hundred bucks, but made sure to go to a good tailor so it fit right.

Climate One is a terrific talk show/public forum/podcast focusing on all things climate change, and I had the great opportunity to join some very smart people to discuss philanthropy’s influence on climate action. It felt like we only scratched the surface, but also covered a ton of ground on this important topic.

This is some of the best advice on process that I've come across. So simple, but the copy and write-over step makes it feel like you're always standing on something steady, instead of flopping around on thin ice the way writing usually feels.

Here are some tweets I tweeted after I tried to ride one of those terrible Bird electric scooters: 

The day police confirmed they had recovered the body of Frightened Rabbit singer and songwriter Scott Hutchison, I was celebrating my 40th birthday in the Highlands of Scotland. It felt like a strange coincidence, that here I was, celebrating making it this far in life, while maybe a day before and just on the other side of this foreign island, Hutchison was apparently ending his own. I had made it about four years longer than he did.