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Editor's Notes

This week, I was listening to an episode of the New York Times podcast Sway, in which iconic tech reporter Kara Swisher interviewed Miami mayor Francis X. Suarez.

 

It kinda made me want to visit Miami, but since travel is still off, here's my takeaway: The Florida city is attracting tech leaders who left San Francisco, and it's doing so by thinking about the companies of the future, not the behemoths that dominate the tech landscape today, as Suarez put it. 

 

But it's not just Miami. Suarez was also adamant that every city needs to be thinking about this, and it got me thinking about other cities that have long wanted to grow tech talent, like Baltimore. At a time of economic upheaval, what should we be saying to technologists looking to leave other cities? Tell me at baltimore@technical.ly, and maybe we'll feature it in a story.

 

—Technical.ly Assistant Editor Stephen Babcock (stephen@technical.ly)

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