The election of Katie Wilson as Seattle’s mayor in November 2025 marks a symbolic and substantive watershed moment: the emergence of the first millennial-led major American city, one explicitly designed around millennial values—not as a generational novelty, but as a coherent reimagining of urban life fundamentally different from the industrial cities of the twentieth century.…
The year 1973 marked the zenith of Southern California’s boat building industry, with Costa Mesa standing as the unquestioned epicenter of fiberglass sailboat production. This maritime manufacturing powerhouse, with its tight concentration of innovative companies, specialized workforce, and entrepreneurial spirit, mirrored what would later become the defining characteristics of Silicon Valley’s technology ecosystem. Both represented…
In the Bahamas’ azure seas, A haven for the bold and free, Nassau, a pirate’s paradise, Where Blackbeard’s shadow cast its vice.
From Jamaica’s shores, the plunder flowed, Riches that the wicked hoard, A testament to piracy’s might, Defying autocratic blight.
On the high seas, they ruled the waves, Captains and crews, no masters to crave, A democracy of the daring and bold, Wealth and freedom, their tales untold.