Nat Overthinks Things

Yes.Yes, for sure. That’s how it is.I mean, I’m sure that’s how it is. It has to be.Pretty sure. Virtually certain.Right? I think that’s right. It seems right. Ok, maybe it’s not right. But that’s not what I said.I remember that’s not what I said. I didn’t say it.Maybe I used different words, but I […]

time fliesin tentative hopsthen confident passageson to migratory voyages buoyed by thermalsand spectacular swoops with the land below a bluruntil ground and swoop intersect at maximum velocityending in a crumpled corpse surrounded by feathers andtime flies

SynergisticallyWe nod agreeing around ZoomNo dissent noted

Now that house prices are starting to come back down, but interest rates are going up, so people still can’t afford houses, there are going to be tons of theories about why the housing market is doing what it’s doing. Unfortunately most people don’t understand that market, so those theories are all going to be […]

NIMBYs don’t want their neighborhood to ever change. Urbanists want everyone to live in Greenwich. But every neighborhood does change, and most places aren’t Greenwich. Maybe most people aren’t so unhappy about change per se. Maybe they just don’t want it to happen so fast. It’s not so bad when my neighbor puts an addition […]

Olympia, like all of the Pacific Northwest and much of the US, is in the middle of a homelessness crisis. One of the drivers of this crisis is housing prices. In Olympia median list prices for homes has jumped from $260,000 to $355,000 between January 2010 and January 2019 (Zillow). And a major driver of […]

“Being happy” is a terrible, self-defeating life goal.  So why do we keep seeing advice about how to be happier in pop culture?

Local news is in decline.  Stories of local papers being consolidated into titanic media conglomerates, shedding staff, cutting back on reporting, or all three are ubiquitous. This puts people who want quality local news in a bind.  The only way to support your local paper is to buy it, but who wants to pay for […]