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June 9, 2020 Amanda Spiegel

Did Cities Ever Need Tech, Anyway? Seattle vs. the Post-COVID Economy

Long a sleepy seaport town, Seattle was enjoying a fraught, decade-long flirtation with explosive growth– and inequality. Will COVID bust up the party forevermore?

Lifestyle

June 2, 2020 Evan Eichelberger

Conquering COVIDbrain: Things Blocking Your Productivity and How To Fix Them

Evan writes about some strategies for tackling hindrances to your own productivity as we all face challenging times.

Adaptation & Resilience Business & Economics

June 1, 2020 Nat Zorach

Anecdotes from The Alleged Retail Apocalypse

Is retail dead? Probably not. Big box retail, though, may need to rethink some things.

Business & Economics

May 20, 2020 Nat Zorach

Supply Chains in the COVID Era and the Case for Economic Resiliency

As supply chains get disrupted and Americans lose access to coveted necessities like Wendy’s beef, COVID offers us some opportunities to ask some timely questions about how we can shift toward smaller-scale production as a question of sustainability and economic resiliency and prosperity.

Business & Economics Labor Public Health

May 18, 2020 Guest

Thinking Beyond The Gun: Lockdown Protests Distract From Meaningful Policy Debate

[Guest contributor Calley Wang writes about media narratives around the lockdown protests– and about what kinds of things we should

Business & Economics Public Health

May 5, 2020 Nat Zorach

The Fine Line Between Entrepreneurship and Price Gouging

A large portion of my academic research is split between the questions of what it would look like to make

Business & Economics Policy

April 30, 2020 Nat Zorach

California’s Nonprofits and Gig Workers Face A Three-fer

Oakland-based nonprofit fundraising and strategy consultant Julie Barton, PhD, talks to us about her concerns regarding the nonprofit sector. We also get some perspective on California’s new law, AB5, which has had unintended consequences for the gig economy at an extremely inopportune time.