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snoodog  ·  2875 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Real Reason Your City Has No Money

The website is way too clean and professional, makes me really suspicious as well but the content is good and dates back at least 7 years. I find myself agreeing with most of what they write.

Any ideas on who is funding it and what their agenda is?





dublinben  ·  2874 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They're a registered 501c3 that receives 75% of their funding from individual members, and 25% from large foundations. They have a ton of information about the organization on their site.

snoodog  ·  2874 days ago  ·  link  ·  
blackbootz  ·  2873 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What did you think? In this article that you link, Bloomberg makes a recommendation through his twitter to listen to this Econ talk episode. I'm really glad I did.

too long; didn't listen? First off, listen to it. Just straight up stimulating stuff (although I'm not a huge fan of the Econ talk podcast host, but that's personal). And secondly, the answer is ultimately what our intuitions tell us: difficult to generalize innovations that are started bottom up. But it's more interesting than that.

snoodog  ·  2867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I listened to the econ talk. It was interesting I like their ideas, i'm just not sure how they would go about implementing. The curse of the engineer that has a great solution to a problem that he/she is not actually in charge of addressing (happens to me all the time).

Btw steve your comment and my comment made the podcast this week:

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/17/the-week-ahead

Looks like chuck or rachel found hubski. Maybe we could invite them to do a Q&A session. mk cgod what do you think?

steve  ·  2867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I feel so famous....

thenewgreen  ·  2867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I reached out to them via twitter :)

blackbootz  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What do you mean?

thenewgreen  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I mean I DM'd them on twitter that there was a nice conversation happening on Hubski around their content. And shared the link w them.

Devac  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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thenewgreen  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Of course that's what I meant. What else would it mean?

Devac  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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blackbootz  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That was you! :D

So yea, there's all this awareness on Strong Town's part of the conversation on hubski, between their articles and podcasts. I was wondering what brought their awareness to us. It's funny how we have all these social media and it never occurs for me to use it.

thenewgreen  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Back when I had more time, I used to do it all the time for two reasons: 1. Often an author of a piece would stop by. 2. It's nice for the creator of content to get feedback, even if its from a small corner of the internet. These people work hard to create their sites, blogs etc. It's nice to let them know that their work is appreciated.

blackbootz  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Couldn't agree more. And it's great to see how buzzed they are about our conversations. Win-win.