Travel Is Fatal to Prejudice: Twain in 1869
Twain wrote this at the end of The Innocents Abroad, after five months at sea with a shipload of Americans who mostly…
Secured for All of Us: Jane Addams in 1902
Addams moved into a run-down mansion on Chicago's West Side in 1889 and stayed the rest of her life. Hull House was…
Two Thousand Years of Not Building a Bridge
The gap at the bottom of the map This week a map went around Instagram showing the E45, a single highway that…
What is Barbarism? Montaigne in 1580
Hundreds of years ago Montaigne met Indigenous Brazilians brought to France and concluded the so-called savages were less barbaric than the Europeans…
You Get to Keep a Portion of the Value You Create
I have been thinking about a simple proposition: You get to keep a portion of the value you create. At first glance,…
Princess Slimline Phones and the MLS
Hi all and Happy Summer! Thanks again for being one of Doorify’s growing number of Subscribers. I wrote last month about measuring…
50 Statewide MLS Federations
A Thought Experiment About Getting to Fifty Feeds from Five Hundred By Matt Fowler, CEO of Doorify MLS Here’s a number that…
Diamonds in the Sawdust
Andrea and her team at Doorify KNOW how to put on an event, but I’ll admit, last Wednesday was ambitious even for…
The Future of PropTech Is Bespoke
SaaS Forms Systems may have seen their day By Matt Fowler, CEO, Doorify MLS For twenty years, real estate technology has worked…
Una Persona de Integridad
So. Its 2001 I think, maybe 2003, but my kids went to a youth group at our Church. We were really involved…
Mark Twain, On Republicans and Math
Ron Chernow on NPR “Mark Twain had very valuable things to say on patriotism. It drove him crazy when people would say,…
The Lamp and the Lie
Own It, or Don’t Act Like You Do In 1883, Emma Lazarus wrote the words that would come to define America’s self-image:…
The First Step: Lao Tzu on the Thousand-Mile Journey
Lao Tzu has a point. Don't think about the 1,000 miles. Just do the first step, then the next one. Direction is…
Ships Aren’t Built for Harbors: Shedd in 1928
This is my thesis for the year. Safety has its place—as preparation, not destination. Time is precious, any worthy goal means leaving…
Happy NEW Year
New Year’s Eve is a threshold—one foot in the year that was, one in the year that will be. Rilke reminds us…
