Join 📚 Josh Beckman's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Josh's read, .
Despite the declining murder rate, there are less beat cops on the streets of Baltimore than ever. For the most part, they've been replaced by a cohort of city employed, formerly incarcerated men and women from the hoods of Baltimore who compose a violence intervention team called the Safe Streets Group, who have several offices around town and a 247 tip hotline where if you're from Baltimore, you can call in when you feel that a situation is escalating, but you don't want to call the cops.
Inside Baltimore's Safest Year in History
Channel 5 Patreon Cuts
In your head, ideas expand until they max out “working memory” – and it’s only by externalising them in the written word that you have capacity to iterate them.
The Surprising Effectiveness of Writing and Rewriting
interconnected.org
These visible markers show us not only the extent of these networks in space but also how they extend through time. Every marker, whether it's an imposing monument or a scrap of fabric, is there to send a message from the past to the future.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise