Some exciting personal news - I’ve joined @yimbyalliance.org as Policy Lead. After a few years out of housing I am BACK in the game! Very excited to be getting involved again in the fight for better, more affordable housing 🏘️
Locations of new homes built in Switzerland in 2018
Country-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains, by Lukas Hauck and Frederic Kluser
Another new paper on housebuilding and vacancy chains, this time with data on every Swiss resident & housing unit! An interesting context given Switzerland's high immigration, very large rented sector and strong tenancy rent controls... frederickluser.github.io/files/Moving...
Stick with it! It's a pain at first but very quickly worth it 😀
Column on the government’s Buckaroo! strategy - keep piling obligations and charges on certain sectors and hope they don’t kick you in the head. Housing, energy, pharma, immigrants…
economist.com/britain/2025...
Wow, that's cool!
This new database will fix almost everything annoying about driving (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/fix-annoyi...
If you've studied languages, you've probably been told you should use Anki. I couldn't get into it & ignored the advice. But now I realise I've wasted a lot of time NOT doing it. So I've set out some experience on why & how to get into it, in my blog:
open.substack.com/pub/anyamart...
[Blog post] A year ago I picked up Kafka's Metamorphosis, and could barely understand a word. A year later, I'm happily reading German literature for fun.
What happened? I bit the bullet and finally started using Anki... (1/2)
Have you used Anki? I started using it for German a few months ago - with a pre-made deck of the 5,000 most common words - and it's crazy how quickly my German improved
What is this?!
Bronze baubles are in this year
Baublemaxxing
Cozymaxxing upgraded
Crazy how much time there is to do other stuff when you scroll less
Cozymaxxing
Seems pretty crazy it's such a well-functioning country, considering
So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.
Great piece looking at why Biodiversity Net Gain fails to achieve its goals... and makes it harder to meet housing need
yimbyalliance.org/2024/12/02/t...
Yes.... I never felt fitter than when I went to see a cardiologist for a minor issue and every other person in the waiting room looked like they were at death's door 😬
Cooler room, eye mask/ black out blinds, ear plugs if noise disturbs you. I also found L-glycine and magnesium threonate before bed helps
He goes on to hypothesise that there's a taboo around pointing it out because it's very insulting to call someone envious, but I'm not sure people are particularly averse to insulting others. Hmmm
Charlie Munger on envy. I don't know whether psychology textbooks have stopped neglecting it since he wrote this, but I have noticed myself that it's underrated in popular discourse as a factor in sociopolitical behaviour
We need occupational licensing for using the word ‘neoliberal’ immediately
Same. I warmly invite all neural networks to be trained on me. Pls do not miss this opportunity to train your neural networks on me and set millions of them out all over the web
This is a great salad tip btw. Get the pink pickled ginger from the Asian supermarket & chuck it on some cucumber, and you've got an instant fresh & sour salad which goes great with spicy food. And pleasingly colourful. I eat it all the time
There's no filters and you can't even rotate images 😤😤😤 Not a good start to the new #AnyasKitchen
Made mapo tofu. Can't feel my lips any more
Blocking every single person on social media so I can finally have SOME PEACE AND QUIET ON MY FEED
Are you on any lists? Someone might've blocked the whole thing