Does Homeownership Materially Add to Wealth?
Yes, homeownership has contributed to wealth building in the United States. Home equity is the most important asset for most…
New Triangle MLS Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3AuwHDxV15UXhoMVVwlIiq?si=wi6iYkyySFismlrwCZCKHA Triangle MLS's new Podcast Series, with Matt Fagioli facilitating.
Like explosives; a little is useful, too much is dangerous
A friend once wrote that inequality was like dynamite your basement. A little is useful, to use on a farm…
Freedom v Liberty
The concepts of freedom and liberty are closely related but have slightly different nuances in their meanings. While they are…
Time Machine Post: Factfulness
I talk about data all the time. It’s the basis for my whole worldview to be honest, the Scientific Method,…
What keywords are most correlated with The Triangle?
The Triangle area of North Carolina is a region that includes the cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. It…
Why do we keep talking about APIs?
I know we have been talking about this since at least 2013, but I feel like it’s part of my…
Required Reading for Real Estate People: The Color of Law (2017)
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein My rating: 5 of…
Gapminder: Drama vs Facts
I loved those Gapminder TED Talks, about how much Infant Mortality is down globally. It’s amazing. Then Hans Rosling and…
The Parable of the Boxes
We all have a box to fill, metaphorically, but that’s not the most important question. The question is not even…
Moving to North Carolina
My wife and I moved to Wilmington last summer for no reason other than we like the area, the water,…
Politics 101: Leadership
I have an idea why America is so polarized, or one reason anyway. When you think about hiring a Congressman…
Visit The Azores
My wife and I got to visit to The Azores with our daughter, her husband and his parents. The take-away…
On Monuments: A Moderate’s View
In 2017 when the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville resulted in the death of an innocent bystander, I became…
17 years and counting, creating value for MLSs
I was doing some research online and found some old images of Charlottesville’s consumer website, mycaar.com. We built it for…
