There are a litany of meta explanations for our increasing social isolation, but paying too much attention to them can serve to rob us of our sense of agency. Host more, go out more... just do things. Because we can, in fact, just do things.

Arizonans are uniquely disposed toward hope. We are a people who imagined a metropolis in a desert and then built it—a people who build canals, dams, and civilization. Thanks @alsatasulaw for cohosting a great Arizona trivia night with @1912Institute at @ASU Law!

A full room at Room To Build, our young professionals mixer with @alsatasulaw. Lawyers, students, & young professionals gathered to talk Arizona's future: how we build the housing, energy, and infrastructure a growing state needs, and how we keep talented people here to do it.

Great evening at the 1912 Institute × Abundance Law Society mixer at ASU Law! Arizona energy and infrastructure trivia, networking, and a book raffle. Thanks to the 1912 Institute, our co-sponsors, Liam Nelson, and our 1L committee for making it happen. #Abundance #Arizona

Look forward to seeing you at ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law tonight! Get your tickets if you haven't already⬇️

San Xavier del Bac Mission. First established in 1692 by the venerable Father Eusebio Kino. It is the oldest European structure in Arizona.

Arizona is joining Nevada's lawsuit challenging the feds' recent Colorado River water cuts to the river's lower basin states.

Yeah, we're back

Can we skip millennial occupied government?

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Banger: "In a world with superintelligence, none of the doom scenarios quite persuade me that humans will be easily steamrolled or go naively into the silicon night."

I'm continually astounded by the abundance of ambitious, competent, and sincere college students and young professionals I meet at @1912Institute events. 1912 is building the talent pipeline, statewide community, and intellectual infrastructure Arizona needs to chart its own future before someone else charts it for us. Join us today: 1912.org/subscribe

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the @1912Institute happy hour on Tuesday night. It was great to see so many of you and to talk about Arizona over a drink.

The 1912 Institute is excited to cosponsor this event alongside @GoldwaterInst and @FREOPP. RSVP in replies.

Finally, some good news that everyone can appreciate:

Patriot. Affleck is defending us from the onslaught of cheap remakes and Stuck Culture.

what young people really need in a moment of mass atomization is fewer parties and less sex

If you don't believe in the laws of supply and demand, just look at Phoenix's apartment market. Since COVID, Phoenix ranks Top 5 for apartment demand and yet ranks in the Bottom 10 for rent growth. Why? Not rent control. Supply. Phoenix ranks No. 3 for supply over the same period. It ain't complicated. If you want to help rent affordability, embrace the science. Embrace the one and only solution proven to work. The math is getting harder these days for new construction, so it's an opportunity for cities and states to find creative ways to get more development to work -- expedited timelines, public/private partnerships, tax abatements (in exchange for affordability requirements), etc.