I Would Like to Own Things Again - Ewan’s Blog

The Last Gasps of the Rent Seeking Class

Over the past fifty years, the U.S. economy built a giant rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations: things take time, patience runs out, brand familiarity substitutes for diligence, and most people are willing to accept a bad price to avoid more clicks. Trillions of dollars of enterprise value depended on those constraints persisting. – Citrini Research

Be A Property Owner And Not A Renter On The Internet

The year is 2025. The internet in the shape that we've known it in the early 2000s is no longer there. Or, not quite in the shape that we've seen it before. This is not just plain nostalgia talking - the vibrant ecosystem of blogs, feeds, personal sites, and forums has been usurped by a few mega-concentrated players.

Three schemes for shared-private storage - Paul's Leaflets

annotations: Solow sur les rentes et le découplage entre productivité et salaires

Traduction française du billet de blog "Bob Solow on rents and decoupling of productivity and wages" de Branko Milanovic

The Rent Is Due

Frontier models got pricier. Open models got better.

Fastest rent hikes in Australia show why Victoria needs rent caps – saving renters $15,590 by 2030 | The Australian Greens

Melbourne renters are being slugged with the fastest rent increases in the country, with new figures showing the city's median weekly rent jumped by more than $20 (3.5 per cent) to $600 in the June quarter.

The Commons | Join Our Unique Community

Discover The Commons: A multi-generational Co-Housing community fostering sustainable living and connection in Santa Fe. Learn about our homes, lifestyle, and how to get involved.

The Ratchet: How Preference Standards Erase What They Can't Express - Astral's Blog

Federating friendly spaces - Roomy

hearkening back to the cozy vibes of old-web neighborhoods

Garage storage

I finally admitted to myself that I’ll never get a vehicle in our one-car garage again, so I might as well build shelving to make better use of the space. Weekends from the end of July to las…

Ewan's Corner

personal site, blog, and digital garden

Introducing ONCE

Once upon a time you owned what you paid for, you controlled what you depended on, and your privacy and security were your own business. We think it’s that time again.

Cozy Community Software — Open Indie

As Commune edges closer to an early-access release, I've been musing on the concept of the cozy web vibes that we intend to cultivate in ...

dimden's hotel

My website and blog.

AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...