What a painful story. It was clearly something that was hard to write but that you had to write.

C’est magnifique!

It sounds like the real disaster was the 1979 change allowing medallions to be leased. The solidified opposition to increasing the number of medallions as they were now financial assets. The demand for taxis soared while the supply stagnated. Then Uber and Lyft came in and the whole thing fell apart.

The political implications are fascinating.

We share an AppleID because we WANT to share contacts, calendar, notifications, music, notes, messages and movies. Since we aren’t dating other people or running illegal businesses on the side, what is the problem? How would family sharing make this easier?

Maybe Silicon Valley has broken enough stuff with all its fast moves. Automobiles are heavily regulated, and for good reason. You can’t operate one on a public street without a driver’s license. It has to have various safety features and emissions controls. There’s a whole court system and branch of law dealing with…

Being ready to intervene is a much harder job than driving. You have to pay as much attention as you would if you were driving, but you don’t get to execute control and get none of the feedback. At least when you are driving, you are engaged. You are always doing something, not serving as an audience.

Life is too short for bad coffee. Sometimes you just have to put up with crap, a bad job, a bad car, or a bad apartment, but bad coffee is something you can do something about rather easily.

Welcome to Shithole America. It’s Trump’s version of the New Deal and Great Society.

Actually, those vents with the little nubbin to move them around work horribly. I can never figure out which way the air is flowing by feel because my hand is in the way. That means tweak the vent. Remove hand. Wait for air. Tweak vent. Remove hand. Wait.

The 2016 Honda Civic speedometer isn’t even visible from the driver’s seat. You have to lean way over one way or another to see it. It’s probably easier just glancing to the right rather than having to ask the passenger how fast the car is going.

Stewart Brand, of ‘Whole Earth Catalog’ fame, told a story about infrastructure and planning in his book ‘How Buildings Learn’. The dining hall at New College at Oxford has an amazing set of solid wooden beams supporting its ceiling. In the 19th century, the beams were starting to go, and they had no idea of how to…

You know what they say, “good enough for the private sector”.

Back in the 1980s my girlfriend made her move from programming to management wearing a Claude Montana orange lab coat. She also had a chartreuse one from another designer. Yes, I know programmers don’t need to wear lab coats, at least not yet, and managers even less so, but it worked. She was head of her department in…

Alternatively, they could invest $120M in a machine for squeezing juice concentrate out of a flexible bag. There is way too much capital flopping around and not enough wide spread income.

Exactly!

Actually, it’s set it too low and people will invest less. We had much higher investment rates when income taxes, overall, were much higher.

I’ll put in a good word for the Sleep Pillow app, $3 on iTunes and also available on Google Play. It has some great relaxing sounds and lets you build your own mix.

I’ll put in a good word for the Sleep Pillow app, $3 on iTunes and also available on Google Play. It has some great…

In the 1960s, one of my neighbors had a taxi medallion, so he parked his work car, a yellow cab, on the street near our co-op. Back then, in NYC, most taxi drivers drove their own cabs and made a decent living at it. (This was a Jackson Heights co-op where apartments go for about $250K these days.)

It’s the right book for our decade.