7PS: Before You're Invited In 📧
Read time: 1 minute, 410 words.With America's 250th upon us, a yarn for you. Benjamin Franklin didn't begin by joining powerful rooms. He built one. In 1727, at just 21, he founded the Junto in Philadelphia. It was a mutual-improvement club for tradesmen and practical thinkers. Not elites. Not aristocrats. People who wanted to read, debate, learn, and make their city better. Ideas from those meetings helped lead to several important Philadelphia civic institutions. Franklin didn't wait for...