pedal politics: how cyclists actually subsidize our roads
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surprising economics of how cyclists pay more than their fair share for street infrastructure
poverty, empty skyscrapers, and musk's censorship
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the rich winning the war on poverty, nyc's vacant buildings, and how twitter's debt influences who gets silenced
ride-share realities: minnesota's driver wage reform
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thoughts on minnesota's minimum wage requirements for uber and lyft drivers and the evolving gig economy
elegant simplicity: the internet's underspecified genius
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appreciating the beauty of 'worse is better' engineering and the brilliance of internet architecture's deliberate flexibility
cisco's paper millionaires and worthless options
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reflections on cisco's early 2000s bubble, worthless stock options, and the 800-pound gorilla's continued inertia
crypto cultism: when financial prophecies fail
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on the cognitive dissonance in cryptocurrency communities and parallels to doomsday cult psychology when predictions fail
pizza pioneers: new york's innovative pop-up scene
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thoughts on nyc's creative pizza pop-up scene with a surprising absence of roccbox portable ovens
wheels of change: buses as climate heroes and atwood unleashed
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musings on bus systems as climate solutions and margaret atwood's refreshingly unfiltered perspectives
ai moat erosion: google's leaked memo and llama's ripple effects
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examining google's leaked internal assessment of ai competition and how meta's llama leak accelerated open source ai development