The video of my 'The Business Model Is the Grid' talk from Clarity 23 is now available for you to enjoy.

The slides are the best use of Keynote clipart you will ever see. Promise.

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This week's quote from Just Enough Research 2e, with more Godzilla.

Packed in the sack to go home

Thursday! Skip your other meetings for a couple of hours, reset your whole design and research practice, meet new people.

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Sunday on the great doomway

I just texted my aunt in Vermont to ask about Eclipse Carmageddon and:

This Thursday!

Please take me to your homeworld.

Totality in Vermont #eclipse

This entire framing is a bait & switch—few artists feel threatened by generative AI due to its ability to create quality work. They're threatened because too many clients don't care about the quality of the output, and AI will erode rates for creative work across the board.

Emeryville is a city of 13,000 people and roughly 1 sq mile. In our first year tracking bike/ped on the Emeryville Greenway (even before opening the southern part in Oct), there were 614,000+ bike & ped trips on the northern segment.

To move your city safely, invest in bike/ped.

Please for the sake of god can we please fund our public education system more

It's scenes like this that helped to undo the brainwashing the US had done to me about transportation.

I was once a shortsighted, deeply ignorant person who thought bikes were either sport or kids toys that adults had no business with.

The Dutch taught me otherwise. ♥️

There has possibly never once been a downtown (or any!) stadium that delivers on the promises developers make. Not regarding jobs, or revenue to anything outside the incredibly immediate corona of their footprint, not for transit. Never.

Riding sunset train to Sacramento from Berkeley, bunch of Giants fans get on at Richmond. Overheard:

“I’m always driving my car down here, never get to see this, so much more beautiful and relaxing this way.”

“Yeah I had no idea these marshes were here.”

“Can you imagine …

Glorious day. Great Highway should be car free 24/7, not just weekends.

Went for a 15 mile ride with the ham. Much fitness. Big stop for playtime in GG Park.

We need to end parking minimums. There is no reason that half of a downtown should be surface parking.