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871.
by viburnum 8y ago
Standing up straight isn't as easy as it sounds. For a lot of desk workers you're going to have to fix your tight hamstrings, abnormal pelvic tilt, and weak abdominal muscles before it will be possible to stand up straight.
872.
by viburnum 8y ago
I'd add building a ton of zero-carbon housing and neighborhoods and more or less giving it away.
873.
by viburnum 8y ago
Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scr
874.
by viburnum 8y ago
Jan Gehl measures walking speed in his studies of how people public space. There's a hundred little factors that go into making a place walkable. And of course people who walk a lot are in better shape and can walk faster.
875.
by viburnum 8y ago
The Great Transformation totally reset the way I think about economics, wish I'd read it sooner.
876.
by viburnum 8y ago
It's too big to use with one hand.
877.
by viburnum 8y ago
Stadiums should be public as well as the teams.
878.
by viburnum 8y ago
The best thing is to live in a nice city and walk five miles a day just getting around.
879.
by viburnum 8y ago
Only socialism can save the rich from themselves.
880.
by viburnum 8y ago
Ugh just be yourself, people are going to figure out the real you sooner or later.
881.
by viburnum 8y ago
In its time jazz was full of harmonic and rhythmic innovations. People played chords and melodies "wrong" and it felt dangerous and exciting. Jazz was always about pushing boundaries, but once you got to free jazz in the 1960s the
882.
by viburnum 8y ago
Pity the rentier.
883.
by viburnum 8y ago
Buruma deserved to get fired because he had no idea what he was doing or what his magazine's audience was.
884.
by viburnum 8y ago
It'll have to do a ton of work to be as walkable as Williamsburg. Bellevue's streets are mostly car sewers.
885.
by viburnum 8y ago
Let's just ban ad tech.
886.
by viburnum 8y ago
I remember when they could ship booked undamaged. Those were good times.
887.
by viburnum 8y ago
Harvard doesn't care about education, they care about being at the center of the reproduction of the elite class. They're explicit about this. Their admissions and tuition policies reflect it.
888.
by viburnum 8y ago
The old Byline iOS app
889.
by viburnum 8y ago
If you're around your wife too much she'll get sick of you and leave you.
890.
by viburnum 8y ago
Medium density seems to cultivate human connections the best (close enough to be near people, not so close as to need to protect your privacy). Basically walkable townhomes density. https://www.fastcompany.com/3021478/h
891.
by viburnum 8y ago
When I used Instagram the search tab did a really great job of showing me great architectural and historical photos, but if I looked at the page too often, it just turned into hot women and dumb memes. I'm guessing that if it runs out
892.
by viburnum 8y ago
Is there a list of the successfully replicated experiments? I haven't been able to find it.
893.
by viburnum 8y ago
Now that everything is getting rolled up into index funds, might as well just turn over the means of production to the workers.
894.
by viburnum 8y ago
He was wrong
895.
by viburnum 8y ago
25mph on a bike is very dangerous. Average Dutch cyclist goes about 10mph (imagine a person running a 6 minute mile, very fast but hardly dangerous).
896.
by viburnum 8y ago
Formerly known as Permanant Indian Territory becuase it was the worst land in America.
897.
by viburnum 8y ago
His books are a hoot too, definitely check them out if you like weird culture.
898.
by viburnum 8y ago
You have to walk a lot farther when the roads are bigger. All that road space has a cost. Straight roads make people drive faster, which makes not driving worse for everyone else.
899.
by viburnum 8y ago
This article has it backwards. Long, straight, wide roads are great for speeding cars but terrible for humans. It's the different between walkable places like and suburban American car sewers. But confidently wrong is completely on bra
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by viburnum 8y ago
It gets hard at the 90% point because that's when you realize your idea was bad, and nothing you can do at the last 10% will fix that.

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