End of Year Updates (Patreon)

Hey, as I mentioned in this past Wednesday's video, I'm taking this week "off," which really means that while I won't be uploading a video on Wed Dec 27, I'm working on a bunch of other longer term/strategic stuff that I've been neglecting, as well as just spending more time on personal stuff (as I suppose one does at this time of year!). I literally haven't NOT released a video on Wednesday (or occasionally Thursday) since like September 2021, basically the beginning of the channel. I'm not sure how I'm going to feel about that, so I scheduled a Year In Review livestream for Thu Dec 28 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, mostly to fill the emptiness I imagine I'm going to feel deep in my soul. Join if livestreams are your thing!

https://www.youtube.com/live/X9tjTQPdriM?si=VWG0f7VttK5siIWR

Travel calendar for 2024 continues to come together. I'm only sharing this here with you patrons because some of these haven't been publicized yet, and I don't want to get out ahead of the client organizations on publicity, but:

- Friday January 26: St. Petersburg, FL Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting keynote

- Sunday February 4: Institute of Transportation Engineers Western District Student Leadership Summit, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo

- March, dates TBD, but I believe I'll be in LA and Berkeley at different points

- Tuesday, April 9: Portland State University lecture series. I don't wanna jump the gun on this one because PSU hasn't announced it yet, but this is going to be a very cool event

- May: no plans yet, but I have an intriguing invite from Detroit

- Saturday, June 8: North Carolina Spine Society 2024 Annual Meeting, Winston Salem, dinner presentation. This one actually grew out of an invitation from someone right here on Patreon! It's going to be a bit different, but I think it's going to give me a chance to draw connections between urban form/transportation and public health that are somewhat well understood in planning practice, but aren't always communicated well to audiences outside the planning realm. Maybe I'll be able to repurpose some of the talk for a video.

Remainder of 2024 TBD, but I'll probably be at the same Montreal event in August that I went to last year, which was super fun and I recommend if you're looking for an excuse to get up to Montreal! Won't be announced until like June, though, I imagine.

Hope you all have a great holiday season, and thanks as always for supporting what I do.

Ray