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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…

8 min readJan 4, 2023

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Nicco Mele

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…

7 min readMar 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…

8 min readMar 11, 2021

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Nicco Mele

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…

7 min readMar 7, 2021

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Nicco Mele

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…

6 min readFeb 28, 2021

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Nicco Mele

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…

6 min readFeb 21, 2021

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Nicco Mele

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…

6 min readJan 11, 2021

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Nicco Mele

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…

6 min readDec 31, 2020

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Nicco Mele

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…

4 min readDec 7, 2020

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Nicco Mele

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…

5 min readNov 26, 2020

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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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