Scrolling through old screenshots and came across this great bit from Timothy Greer:

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Civic agency is underrated.

One of the more most earnest examples I have personally seen of someone trying to build this muscle effectively is from Daniel Gollhier’s body of work, Maximum New York. Check it out.

Greer (from the tweet) writes more about this in his essay, ‘On Cultures That Build.

Final comment: I’m visiting Mumbai/India right now and I’m distraught at one particular thing, which is the upkeep and cleanliness of public spaces. (I wrote about this here).

In one of the areas, there is a half-done, torn apart micro construction site (road works I think?). The dust from the materials flows everywhere when there’s any wind, it blocks part of the pavement and road, and it’s generally very unpleasant.

In order to tackle this, you need to start with a set of public standards about what is acceptable and what is unacceptable. I found this comment on Twitter funny:

The “Karen” slur was a way to banish women who retained a sense of dignity abs standards for conduct and customer service from public life

‘A sense of dignity about standards.’ – Exceptional. Let’s raise the bar and take action appropriately.