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Here’s the latest from Commonly Well.
On transportation and addiction recovery
As a reader of this newsletter, you now know that addiction is a lens through which I will view inequities, barriers, and poor design. With limited exceptions, addiction is a condition that manifests over time and through repetition. Reversing the effects of addiction are incredibly difficult because our environment isn’t optimized for health or to make life easy — unless of course you have the things needed to navigate the environment (in which, life is never really easier, just easier).
Making good with irony and absurdity
What does Ferris Bueller say at the end of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”?
“Yep, I said it before and I’ll say it again; life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it’”
A Bloomberg CityLab/MapLab story about the inefficiencies of bus networks awakened a series of memories from 15 years ago when I was in the early months of reinventing my life.
I moved to Sioux Falls, SD from the jail in Winner, SD during the last week of January 2006. I was staring life over without a job and living in a sober home. My license was revoked for 5 years. My parents bought me a bike to get around, some new clothes, a cell phone, and paid a few months of my rent.
