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Weekly Newsletter: Military-brat memories, Doge Disco, a challenge to St. Louis, and toxic productivity

by Elizabeth Macbride
July 1, 2021
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A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride:

I’m a military brat, the daughter of a career Air Force officer. Our family moved 11 times before I was 17. Some of the most wonderful memories of my childhood are of those nights before a move, when my room was packed and the boxes stacked three or four high, and I Iay in my canopy bed, wondering what my next bedroom would look like.

Change is one of the loves of my life.

But last month, I found myself feeling burned out in a way I never have before. The profound changes required of us by the pandemic, my daughter’s graduation, the busy-ness of writing and marketing a book – all of them added up, in an environment that is still pandemic-strange. I felt like I was swimming in gel.

Then, a lucky strike: I went to talk to the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce about The New Builders. The day I arrived, I went on a long walk, 7 miles by my iPhone’s count, and one of the places I stopped was a map company, founded in 1875. Naturally, I went in, and discovered a business story of resilience. The owner, Patrick Carroll, told me how he saved the historic family map business when the early 2000s rolled around, and new apps made paper maps obsolete for navigation.

Technology was killing the company; but then, he saw how it could save it. The powerful scanning and printing equipment that was invented around the same time allowed him to digitize and re-print Gallup’s archives of historic maps on canvas.

“The timing was exactly right,” he said.

I thumbed through the maps idly, and found one that was the perfect belated Father’s Day gift for my dad: An early 20th century map of airplane routes, orange lines criss-crossing from New York to Chicago to LA. 

If you’re a traveler, all roads lead to home.

Happy Fourth of July everybody!

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Buzzworthy: Supplement your beach reading with another guilty pleasure: The Million Doge Disco, an augmented reality game that lets players go after “interactive, non-fungible tokens” and Dogecoin. It launches July 3.

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Elizabeth Macbride

Elizabeth Macbride

A business journalist for 20 years, am the founder of Times of Entrepreneurship and the co-author of The New Builders.

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