My name is Don MacLeod, and I’ve spent decades in media, marketing, entertainment, and events, which means I’ve seen the serious, the absurd, and everything in between. 22,000 Days+ is a record of where I’ve been and what I’m noticing now. Not a diary, not a lecture—just my perspective.
This space is my way of pulling those threads together—today’s headlines, cultural moments that stick, and the occasional story from the past that still deserves a spotlight. Some posts will make you laugh, some might make you roll your eyes, and a few could make you think twice. That mix is the point: after 22,000 wake ups, the view gets interesting. Growing up in Detroit’s western suburbs meant you learned the rules before anyone explained them. The Big Three—Ford, GM, Chrysler—weren’t just employers. They were ecosystems with their own gravitational pull… Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation just released research showing that Gen Z’s AI skepticism is climbing while their dependence on these tools deepens. Excitement about artificial intelligence dropped 14%… A federal appeals court just struck down a law older than your great-great-grandfather’s moonshine recipe. The Fifth Circuit ruled that the federal government’s 158-year-old ban on home distilling — enacted… A 300-million-year-old blob of fossilized tentacles just lost its title as the world’s oldest octopus. Turns out it was never an octopus. It was a nautilus—a shelled cephalopod that decomposed… Dave Chappelle stood outside a restored 19th-century schoolhouse in Yellow Springs, Ohio, on Thursday—not for a Netflix special, not for a comeback tour, but for a ribbon-cutting ceremony that probably…
The Parking Lot Test: What Detroit’s Auto Industry Knew About Brand Commitment
Why Gen Z’s Relationship With AI Is Getting More Complicated
Reconstruction-Era Booze Ban Ruled Unconstitutional — Hobby Distillers Win After 158 Years
Fossil Loses “World’s Oldest Octopus” Title After 300-Million-Year Identity Crisis
Dave Chappelle Bought a Schoolhouse So a Radio Station Wouldn’t Disappear
