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Midway through their March 14, 2007 SXSW gig, Meat Puppets bassist Cris Kirkwood told the crowd, “This just happens to be the first time in 11 years that Curt and I are gonna play together, so.” A roar reminiscent of a NASCAR rally echoed through the small, outdoor club, and Cris raised his arms, both visibly dotted with the white scars of old burns and needle marks, in what seemed part gratitude, part inauguration.

In my now 20 years in the residential real estate industry, most of it spent working with, advising, and advocating for organized real estate, I have never been as enraged and as disappointed as I was reading about the lawsuit from four former senior executives at San Diego Association of REALTORS. If you haven’t heard about this lawsuit, it is basically… ncG1vNJzZmimn6m8s7XOrqqrp5JjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6GdXaKys6%2FUq6Coq5SWv26wxJuYnKSVYsSprdNmpK6rpA%3D%3D

MetaLex is a new way of serving the crypto community’s legal, governance and operational needs with a unique set of onchain protocols and offchain legal arrangements, purpose-built to balance agile, effective governance structures with trust-minimization and legal compliance within the new cybernetic economy. “MetaLeX” means “beyond law”. Co-founded by longtime cryptolawyers Gabriel Shapiro and Alex Golubitsky with a stellar team of lawyers and web3 developers, incubated by Delphi Labs, and funded by Cyber.

Hello readers. Welcome to the fifth edition of my newsletter—Pursuit. For exclusive stories on art and entrepreneurship, join the tribe. In this essay, I’d deep dive into Georgia O’Keeffe’s oeuvre. An American artist and sculptor whose main body of work is synonymous with flowers. O’Keeffe married the famous art dealer and American photographer Alfred Stieglitz. The ‘mother of American modernism’ and the most celebrated artist of the 20th century. In 1946, she became the first woman to earn a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

Only two Mexican festivals, Dia de los Muertos [Day of the Dead] and Voladores de Papantla  [flyers of Papantla] have been recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage events.  The Ritual Ceremony of the Voladores of Papantla received this recognition as an Intangible Cultural Heritage [ICH] category from  UNESCO in 2009. Voladores de Papantla.  Voladores participate in a ritual dance before climbing the pole. Photo by Ricardo Romo. Before 1970, the voladores seldom performed in the United States.

John Sinclair was a legend at the University of Michigan, where I went to college. The guy who went to jail for 10 years for 2 joints: that was the shorthand we used to use. But I’ll be damned if that isn’t the most reductive possible way to describe Sinclair, who was not only a poet but also an activist whose shrewd understanding of how marijuana laws were tied to larger systems of oppression was ahead of its time.

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, from Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci. Can you believe that, despite the pieces I’ve written about getting old on the internet and turning 30, I’m still in my 20s? —Kate P.S.: Read the follow up to this piece, Hell hath no fury like a Millennial scorned. There’s a TikTok video by creator @nisipisa that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. It’s a stitch of Taylor Swift announcing the rerelease of Red in November.

The Minimalista Edit is a newsletter designed to help you clear physical and mental clutter so you can create more space for the stuff that matters. It is completely paywall free and available to all. Here’s why. I'm an author, organizing expert, and minimalist mom of two, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I live in a 1200 square foot, 100-year old bungalow with my husband, two daughters, and our Australian Shepherd, Patches.

A claim I keep seeing popping up is the idea that Minneapolis is a notable example of effective supply side reforms in housing. I am afraid that, currently, it is not. It could be. It might be on its way. It may be heading in the right direction. But, the data doesn’t yet confirm a meaningful success there. And, we would be wise not to act like it is, because if we jump the gun on this and it turns out that Minneapolis hasn’t really changed the trend in local housing costs, then we’ve just created a big false negative narrative that can be cited as a place that proved supply-side reforms don’t work.