Car drives into a West Town storefront.
Driver & passenger run away (on camera). I wonder if the car was stolen? Just kidding, almost certainly it was. ~ learn more
Driver & passenger run away (on camera). I wonder if the car was stolen? Just kidding, almost certainly it was. ~ learn more
It feels like there’s more to the story here, but it’s certainly a weird occurrence. ~ learn more
Worth watching. ~ learn more
I found this interesting in the context of John Doerr’s talk of future climate refugees. Maybe these problems help alleviate on another to some extetent? The bank “has warned that the country’s economy will need around 24 million migrant workers until 2053 if the pension system is to remain sustainable.” ~ learn more
An episode of the Tim Ferris Show from November 2021. Doerr is the famous investor who backed Larry & Sergey with the biggest check his firm had ever written when they were 24 years old without a business model. He taught them a goal setting process that seems to have worked! Now his goal is getting the world to Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050. ~ learn more
A TED talk given by researcher (and Novo Nordisk employee?) Mads Tang-Christensen in September 2021, before most of us had ever heard of GLP-1. ~ learn more
“A new heat-to-energy converter has reached a record efficiency of 44% – the average steam turbine manages about 35%, for comparison. This thermophotovoltaic cell is a major step on the way to sustainable, grid-scale renewable energy storage.” ~ learn more
Byrne Hobart spent a lot more time thinking about this than the rest of us: “The thirty-year fixed-rate prepayment-option mortgage is an economic disaster. It encourages mass malinvestment. Policies designed to help low-income people build wealth actually trap them at the worst possible time.” ~ learn more
“My view is that the “market urbanist” diagnosis of the problem is more persuasive than its prescription for addressing it. As a positive matter, they just won’t win the political fights they propose. On normative grounds, I’m not sure that they should.” ~ learn more
This is a youtube video with great animation and explanation, but poor sound quality. ~ learn more