Stay Credible
Redesign Your Data This map made the rounds of my social media and email last month. Several different economic developers picked up on the opportunity to tout their positive growth, and sometimes to take some not so subtle digs at...
Are Data Centers Funny?
The Distillery Need some comic relief from all of the AI data center drama? Don’t judge, this is a guilty pleasure I came across and suddenly – OK, not so suddenly – there was a story arc about an AI data center...
True but Troublesome
Redesign Your Data This visualization is a perfect example of one that can be true, but troublesome. Those of us in economic development know how much is left out of this chart, and how often we have had to explain what is left out. The...
A Place I’ll Remember – March 2026
A Place I'll Remember I’m all for training people up in new technologies, and that means AI, of course. At the same time, we know these advances mean it is becoming harder and harder to identify sources and credibility of information, and...
A Libertarian Point of View
Workforce I know, I know, there’s just too much out there to read. And it’s too hard to figure out the “slant” of what you are reading anyway. But I’m going to give this one a recommendation anyway because...
Data for a K-Shaped Economy
Redesign Your Data Data is getting weird, or maybe it always was. Sometimes the “big data” releases come on time, sometimes they don’t, sometimes they get adjusted, 100% of the time they get spun. In a K-Shaped economy, or...
A Place I’ll Remember – February 2026
A Place I'll Remember I have been posting A Place I’ll Remember monthly for over 5 years. My guiding principle has been to highlight people and programs I think are worthy examples of how to make life better for people. I write about places...
How to Lose the War for Talent
Workforce I have created and shared content for years designed to help economic developers in states and communities figure out how to best support the interdependence between their citizens (because that’s who talent is) and...