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20 September
From one piece Book Review: How to Build a Space Station by Jonathan Morrison ★★★⯪☆ 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Putting people into a tin-can with no windows, blank walls, and an infernal background hum will drive them mad.
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The fact that we don't have swarms of drones prefabbing houses in the relatively benign atmosphere of our planet should be evidence that maybe these claims aren't quite matched with reality.
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I’m here for it The tech scene in this city keeps getting better and better
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Finland made great progress towards eliminating homelessness by giving people houses which they could feel was home. Alas, right-wing government has cut some of the spending and is driving homelessness back up.
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New York would be a wonderful city to walk everywhere if people were not openly smoking weed on the streets.Their words
new york would be a wonderful city to walk everywhere, if everyone and their mother wasn't openly smoking weed on the streets
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The chart of housing affordability is almost a direct inverse of how many new homes are built It's that simple Build more houses!
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To be a true pirate implies a broader disavowal. The pirate renounces the long-distance authorities of nations and empires.
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From one piece Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Housing subsidies cannot scale to the size of the problem, and the YIMBYs are right to say so.Their words
While there are certainly some benefits to these programs, YIMBYs are right to doubt that housing subsidies alone are a scalable solution to affordability challenges.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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To real estate professionals, slowing growth or declines in rent are often signals to stop building new housing.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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As is the case with most businesses, suppliers in the housing industry generally set prices based on market conditions and what buyers or tenants are willing to pay, rather than on production costs.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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Making housing widely affordable today through the removal of development regulations would require allowing extremely low quality housing.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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STOPS is designed for quick-and-dirty calculations and is known to choke on New York.
16 June
From one piece Europe's housing shortages are even worse than America's 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Without densification restrictions, housing shortages will only ever be serious in cities where land is really intensely scarce, as in Hong Kong.
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Europe's housing shortages are worse than America's, and Europeans do not discuss zoning as their cause at all.Their words
In fact, European housing shortages are generally worse than America’s.
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I suspect the same is often true in the rest of Europe: NIMBYism is the ultimate reason why the French and German states don’t solve their housing shortages through unbanning densification, but since the claims of the NIMBYs have been preemptively conceded by everyone, NIMBYism has basically remained latent.
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And soon we have a precedent that every new pope feels he has the authority to knock down every pawn upon the chessboard if he feels like it. Once that is the norm, even a fairly nice pope still inherits the idea that the pope is going to overthrow and replace governments. And this creates a unique instability within Italy that no other part of Europe is subject to
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This post is about whether data centers waste the land they’re on relative to what they compete with, and my claim is that they mostly don’t compete with things we need more of (housing) and mostly compete with things we need less of (farmland).
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And what makes a society illegible to the tax collector also makes it illegible to the traditional archaeologist.
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Identify a version of you that is responsible for self destructive behavior and give them a name
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Team of RivalsTheir words
Abraham Lincoln surrounded himself with his opponents, gradually turning them into admirers and influential advisors. Lincoln’s approach to leadership offers lessons for anyone looking to tap into the wisdom of others, with or without formal authority.
6 January
From one piece A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think the majority of society problems are all downstream of housing affordability.
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The right response to housing costs is to build millions more homes as fast as possible.Their words
Every economic issue is complex, but this one seems pretty straight forward: we should build more homes. Millions of them, as fast as we can.
25 December 2025
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Between 2015 and 2025 US manufacturing wages rose 40%, while the cost of purchasing a home rose 93%.
9 December 2025
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PLC's or um uh or or companies on the NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange are incentivized to behave like psychopaths because they're optimized around short-term transactional value, not long-term relationship building.
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It turns out that simply getting people into temporary shelter—often derided by the homelessness-industrial complex as a band-aid—significantly reduces both social and individual harms of unsheltered homelessness.
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Giving local staff authority over more-qualified remote workers reduces a company's competitivenessTheir words
there's a power imbalance: the local worker is in charge and doesn't have to listen. This reduces company competitiveness.
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From one piece From the vault: Why housing shortages cause homelessness 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Where housing costs are moderate, friends and family have bigger homes. When they are higher, friends and family don’t have space to share, and this is often what puts a vulnerable person onto the streets.
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The American cities with the highest housing prices have the worst homelessness problems.
27 December 2024
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The Power of HabitTheir words
My first book, which spent three years on New York Times bestseller lists, takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist — and how they can be changed.
7 October 2024
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And it doesn’t always take a job at The New York Times or a huge pre-established platform to become one of the voices speaking up, helping to turn that tide.
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New York's subway cost premium is overstaffing, oversized stations and procurement, not high wages.Their words
Well, we’ve divided the New York cost premium into three tranches: labor (mostly overstaffing, not high wages), station and system design, and procurement and soft costs.
29 May 2024
From one piece Shortages and Spillovers: How People Misunderstand the Housing Crisis 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, when housing demand can’t be met in a given place, it doesn’t evaporate. It spills over. It goes somewhere.
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In fact — and this is a point that is, in my opinion, underappreciated by the pro-housing side — building a bunch of housing in Santa Monica would probably not lower rents in Santa Monica. It would bring more people to Santa Monica, creating lower rents elsewhere in Greater Los Angeles as the spillovers from Santa Monica lessened.
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But understand that it’s ultimately a moral and political argument, not an empirical question of the ideal population or the exact level of housing demand in Santa Monica.
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The biggest barrier of all, of course, is that the majority of neighborhoods are not allowed to add any housing at all.
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Empirical data drawn from many different regions clearly shows that, on a metropolitan scale, rents tend to rise when vacancy rates are low and stabilize when vacancy rates are high.
8 May 2024
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That makes it essential to ensure that all synthetic DNA orders are screened to determine whether they contain hazardous sequences, which should be shipped only to legitimate researchers whose work has been approved by a biosafety authority.
2 April 2024
From one piece What Makes Housing So Expensive? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Discussions of housing policy often focus on issues of zoning, regulation, and other supply restrictions which manifest as increased land prices, but for most American housing, the largest cost comes from building the physical structure itself.
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What is different about construction is the level of coordination that takes place: whereas in a car everything is carefully designed to tightly integrate together, in housing construction the work can be done (and often is) with surprisingly little coordination between the various trades.
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It’s only in dense urban areas that the cost of land begins to dominate the cost of new housing, driven by regulatory and zoning restrictions that limit how much housing can be built in a given area.
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Bulk building materials are already mass-produced in factories, and are among the cheapest materials civilization is capable of producing.
22 March 2024
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So, in addition to the Launch on Warning concept, there’s this other insane concept called Sole Presidential Authority. And you might think, in a democracy that’s impossible, right? You can’t just start a war. Well, you can just start a nuclear war if you are the commander in chief, the President of the United States. In fact, you’re the only one who can do that.
17 January 2024
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Similarly, most recent discussions of how to promote fertility discuss how we might promote housing, inequality, schooling, day-care, etc., but few consider directly paying parents big amounts to have kids. As indirect approaches require us to guess what are the actual main obstacles to fertility, they are more likely to fail.
26 December 2023
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Olga Dies DreamingTheir words
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez - Olga grows up in the Puerto Rican community in New York and becomes enormously successful as a wedding planner, but cannot manage her own relationships
16 August 2023
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There is no capital-S Science that can stand as an authority; there is only reasoning done systematically.Their words
There is no capital-S Science—a new authority to substitute for God or King.
5 August 2023
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You cannot make America build subways ten times cheaper while only ever talking to Americans.Their words
You can’t change the United States from a country that builds subways for $2 billion/km in New York and $1 billion/km elsewhere to a country that does so for $200 million/km if all you ever do is talk to other Americans.
2 August 2023
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You Can Negotiate AnythingTheir words
Everything is negotiable. Challenge authority. You have the power in any situation. This is how to realize it and use it. A must-read classic from 1980 from a master negotiator. My notes here aren’t enough because the little book is filled with so many memorable stories — examples of great day-to-day moments of negotiation that will stick in your head for when you need them. (I especially loved…
29 June 2023
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Survival can be guaranteed without a universal basic income, by making housing, food and above all energy dirt cheap.Their words
You can make survival guaranteed without UBI. What you have to do, is make housing and food dirt cheap. Right? And that’s the good world. And actually, let’s go into what we should really be making dirt cheap, which is energy.
6 June 2023
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Biofuels have probably raised greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowered them, once the land they take is counted.Their words
But I think it’s important to tell the whole story, so I have a new piece in the New York Times pointing out that biofuels are also a catastrophe for the climate and the environment.
A Climate Killer Disguised as a Climate Solutionmichaelgrunwald.substack.com
19 May 2023
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Building more housing in a city raises its local prices, because density is what people are moving there for.Their words, before
So empirically, as you move along the density spectrum from the empty North Dakota plain to Manhattan, housing prices go up.
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Although it wasn't a mistake to ask people to change my mind, I've mostly updated against believing the theory.
12 January 2023
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In fact, the worst cost blowouts are for the politically most certain projects; Second Avenue Subway enjoyed unanimous support in New York politics.
High Costs are not About Precaritypedestrianobservations.com
8 September 2022
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Secrets of AdulthoodTheir words
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before distills her key insights into simple truths for living with greater satisfaction, clarity, and happiness.
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Charming, beautiful and astronomically expensive because like in most of the western world it's illegal to build anything.
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The more restrictions on land use, the higher rents you see.
28 January 2022
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But whereas other Roman institutions didn’t survive the collapse of Roman political authority, the Church as an institution very much did.
25 January 2022
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And so all of the people who have achieved positions of power and authority in the world based on prior generations of technology are inherently threatened by new technology because new technology will upend the power and status structures and then a new set of people will, you know, come to the foreground and and take the power.
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Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip GustonTheir words
This is a brilliant piece of social history. It's a daughter's expression of love for her father, even though it was a complicated love. I think it's a very memorable portrait of a particular painter. She relates his work to his life, to his fathering, and regrets the toll taken on him by the rather damaging macho culture of the male artists of the New York School, who seemed to have felt obliged to drink at least a bottle of whiskey and smoke five packets of Camel no-filter cigarettes every day. It's amazing that he lived as long as he did, given that he died in his mid-sixties.
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EducatedTheir words
Educated is an amazing story, and I get why it’s spent so much time on the top of the New York Times bestseller list.
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