Honoring a Pioneer Patriot: The Incredible Journey of Reuben Stone Sr. (1755–1849) 📜🇺🇸 This Veterans Day, I want to share the remarkable story of a man — my […]
Politics & Citizenship
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Who Belongs in America?
Of roughly 390,000 people deported by ICE after two or more years in America, 71% had no criminal conviction. Part 2 of The Numbers Behind the 2026 Election.
Politics & Citizenship
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All Men Are Created Equal. Are We?
Two hundred fifty years ago, a slaveholder wrote the most radical sentence in American history. Part 1 of 5: are our institutions moving us closer to the promise that all men are created equal, or further away?
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The Riboflavin Test
Evidence, Fear, and the 2026 Midterms Oct 26, 2026 · @MattFowler My argument fits in one sentence: on November 3, vote for candidates who trust evidence over fear. […]
History & Ideas / News
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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 runs from the Arctic tip of […]
History & Ideas
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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 burning each other over doctrine. Today, […]
History & Ideas
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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, that sounds like a defense of […]
MLS & PropTech
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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 satisfaction using the Net Promoter Score […]
MLS & PropTech
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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 should embarrass us: roughly 500. That’s […]
MLS & PropTech
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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 them. We invited the busiest, most […]
MLS & PropTech
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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 like a restaurant with a fixed […]
Family & Personal
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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 back then and the new youth […]
History & Ideas
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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, my country, right or wrong. He […]
Politics & Citizenship
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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: a mighty woman lifting her lamp […]
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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 that the future isn’t just more […]
