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Nicco Mele

Parenting & the price of freedom

It’s that time of year — the quiet week between Christmas and New Year’s — when a moment is coming my children dread: the annual parental…

Jan 4, 2023

Jan 4, 2023

Brighter every day

“How silent are the footsteps of spring,” wrote Thoreau, and between the slow rolling arrival of the new season and the promise of…

Mar 29, 2021

Mar 29, 2021

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What is Bitcoin and NFTs and all that stuff?

So many of you replied to my last email asking for explanation of Bitcoin, crytpo-currency, and non-fungible tokens (NFT) that I thought I…

Mar 11, 2021

Mar 11, 2021

You say you want a revolution

“Love is the quality of attention we pay to things,” writes poet J.D. McClatchy. If that’s the case, then this week I loved Bitcoin and…

Mar 7, 2021

Mar 7, 2021

All Technology is Politics

Watching Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) volunteer at a food bank in Texas last weekend (while also raising millions of dollars for…

Feb 28, 2021

Feb 28, 2021

Back in the Saddle

In the noise of the post-election you may have missed my silence. It was unintentional: a broken ankle required significant surgery, and…

Feb 21, 2021

Feb 21, 2021

The Great Derangement

Last weekend I read an excellent novel about an Iraq War hero who is invited to officiate at the Dallas Cowboys’ Thanksgiving Day…

Jan 11, 2021

Jan 11, 2021

They Say A Party Can Kill You

Ah, 2020. What a year. This New Year’s Eve I’m thinking of a sculpture I saw years ago at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC…

Dec 31, 2020

Dec 31, 2020

Two Americas`

It’s a bright, cold Sunday morning with snow on the ground. The kids have evacuated the house at the crack of dawn to take advantage of…

Dec 7, 2020

Dec 7, 2020

The Struggle

Happy Thanksgiving. It may sound trite, but I am thankful for you — writing this newsletter has been a great gift for me, and would I…

Nov 26, 2020

Nov 26, 2020

Nicco Mele

Nicco Mele

formerly of @LATimes & @Kennedy_School - author of The End of Big - lots more at http://nicco.org — Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer.

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