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Running with an 8-month-old in a jogging stroller through Fairmount Park before sunrise — the silence, the dad bod, and the small weird pride of getting it done before the day starts.
In July 2025, ~10,000 Philadelphia city workers struck. Sanitation workers earn $46,000 — $2,000 below the city's living wage. Last among major US cities.
On Philadelphia police, the community, and the impossible standards we place on both
The metacognitive lessons from the poker table — decision-making under uncertainty, belief updating, and the ego problem.
It's so long but so fascinating. An entire chapter on the tail of a whale. It makes you feel like Melville really cared about whales, and somehow that makes you care too.
Flush draws and set mining look tempting. They're not. Your gut is not a mathematician.
281 environmental complaints. Zero responses. Philadelphia School District schools are still closing for the same issues three years later.
If you're not isolating when you have a strong hand, you're just rolling the dice on how the equity breaks up.
Two miles each way through the city, good exercise before sitting in a dark room for ten hours — and leaves the car at home so I can actually have a drink.
A tour of the Saturday night poker table at Rivers Casino — the Capital One VP, the 55-year-old woman who plays like a machine, the 19-year-old GTO student, and my buddy A.
Six Philadelphia City Council members convicted since 1981. Each one caught using the informal veto power over development in their district.
Marty Rivers is the loudest, most fun player at the Rivers poker table — a chef who plays with pure joy and somehow hits the one card he needs every single time.
When Philadelphia revealed in June 2018 that it was producing its year-end financial report with Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Word, nobody laughed for long.
At $1/2 and $1/3 poker, the house takes $30/hour per player before tips. The math is the math.