jordanskole

I've seen a few of these placeholder api routes but they always start with just some default static data. This is much better.

The Pocket/Feedly combination is crucial. There's an awesome post about it [here](https://medium.com/technology-and-you/3804306ce501)

This 10000000%

I just got interviewed in the State News and the reporter kept asking me these same questions about getting over failure. I told her I have never failed, not even one time. from my beef jerky enterprise in high school all through college, I just made adjustments.

I gave her an anecdote about selling pink and yellow lemonade, and if i was selling way more pink than yellow, yellow lemonade didnt 'fail' my feelings wernt hurt, it wasnt a personal feat that made me rise up above it. I just adjust.

She didnt really like the answer so asked me again, and none of it made it in the paper.

For people here inside the region this is actually common to say Metro area or SE MI it is just difficult for people outside or who have never been. They just say Detroit. In fact, when I am away on travel, I will tell people I am originally from Lansing and they simply say "so Detroit?" and I def wouldnt consider Lansing part of the MDA

Hows this for a brand. We are hard working and dedicated and if you cant hack the flat mountainless humid summers and frigid winters, you can sit your sissy ass somewhere else. What we do have is a greasy, leather-palmed commitment to revitalization and a group of people you would be crazy to call 'soft.' architecturally we are a powerhouse. You see decay and and decline in abundance we see the freedom of a city that has hit a bottom and is willing to support anything to climb back up to the top. We have a lot of people with your attitude living here currently, and I offer them all $100 subsidy for their moving vans.

You are certainly right about the space though. Think about having an internet startup that sells its G&S anywhere in the world, why spend $1800 on an apartment elsewhere when you can spend half that and live in a creative urban area, and spend the other half on travel, or your startup.

Lastly, and the most important thing we have going for us, is momentum. We get a fair amount of comments like this, but we used to get a fair amount more. This place is nothing like it was 2 years ago and has changed even more drastically over the past 5 years.

[sarcasm]if you want to strike tech gold and buy $1000 sunglasses and flirt with plastic blondes and surf duuuude then head out west,[/sarcasm] but if you want agency - if you want to affect change, and be part of a movement, if you want to influence a renaissance then send me a message and I will be more than happy to subsidize your plane ticket here to help me count cranes.