photo of people biking into downtown Seattle
The three most common doubts I hear about whether biking can scale in Seattle are:
1) Is it too hilly?
2) Is it too rainy?
3) Are things too far away?
Let's assume those are good faith questions and look at each one in turn. 🧵
Claude code has changed the way i work on personal projects. I used to have an idea and spend a few weeks coding it before getting bored and giving up. Now the whole process only takes a couple days.
I hate when I have a title for an essay that I really love, but I don't actually have enough coherent thoughts to write the essay that will live up to it.
For the best job security, if you are project managing an effort to build a perpetual motion machine, make sure you always schedule the work on friction for some time in the future.
The future hinges on the race between the development of class consciousness by the masses and the deployment of coercive AI technology in service of elites.
We really don't talk enough about how a lot AI uses are a shiny leaky abstraction over crappy systems that we should fix instead of just papering over them.
Predicting something you saw on Star Trek when you were 12 is not "having a bold vision for the future".
No LLM would ever have been able to win the Kobayashi Maru and only the best would even "realize" it lost.
Ding Dong!!
Meta Ray-Ban Display seems like the perfect product for people who don't think smartphones are invasive enough. Definitely not interested in carry a Zuck spy device around with me all day.
The value of homes in my neighborhood have basically doubled since we bought ours, but I would have preferred a world where the prices didn’t increase and my kids could afford a home here.
Do you live in Ravenna or Roosevelt? Sign on to this letter opposing comprehensive plan amendment #40, which shrinks the Ravenna neighborhood center. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
new concrete protected bike lanes
So many flex posts gave their all to make this happen
A couple of days in Copenhagen is all you need to experience the horrors that the YIMBY, pro density, pro transit people want to bring to your city.
If the problem is that people don’t care enough, it’s really unlikely you will fix that by adding another process step.
It is very hard to get to a situation where healthcare is free without first having a plan to make it less expensive.
How many $100M geniuses does it take to invent a perpetual motion machine?
It's pretty common to run into a swarm of bugs when riding on the Burke, today It was a swarm of Bees! No stings though.
The biggest challenge with working on tech for Healthcare in the US is not dealing with HIPAA, it is having to learn even more depressing things about the way the system works.
Just at the "attention economy" has decimated our attention. The "ai agent economy" is going to decimate our agency.
I just published the most personal thing I’ve ever written.
The High Cost of Saying No: Why I Can’t Stop Talking About Housing.
It’s about Atlanta and San Francisco, growth, and grief.
And the decisions that shaped my marriage, my loss, and everything after www.dataandpolitics.net/the-high-cos...
Why does “preserving the character of a neighborhood” never mean preserving the ability for young families to live there?
Confidence is poorly correlated with Competence
If you are unhappy with the current situation don’t be content with a return to the status quo ante which led to the current situation.
The number of good points per minute in this video is extremely high, which is wild because it is 2 hours and 40 minutes long.
youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI?...
The mind virus which is destroying society isn't woke, its wetiko
A future post apocalypse where people rode bikes wouldn’t be dystopian enough. It would be amazing.
Paying attention should be less painful
It's a shame that it's Buy Nothing day. I am thinking I should probably stock up on Iodine tablets.
