adrianparsons

Great writeup! I work with NYC open data but did not know about this dataset!

> Garages make up one-fifth of NYC buildings

I'm quite surprised by this.

Yes! He organized a barebones conference out of the Meetup office in New York. The premise was that all attendees would do a 10 minute talk on any subject (I think it was called 10conf?). Mikeal spoke about his pour-over coffee setup while using it to make coffee for everyone.

I really enjoyed time I spent with him and appreciated his kindness and leadership in the community. My thoughts are with his family and loved ones.

This was an aside at the end of the article, but what an interesting strategy:

I bought the stock for the same reason I buy stock in every hotel, airline, bank, and similar I use: in the unlikely event a not-particularly-high-stakes poker player has a routine customer service complaint, Investor Relations is available as an escalation strategy, over e.g. hotel staff who might be long-since inured to listening to complaints from people who lost money in a casino.

It sounds like this is already the case, somewhat. The article says:

> Ambetter was obligated by state law to provide one outside of its network if Ravi couldn’t find one in a “timely manner” — which, in Arizona, meant within 60 days.

(They didn't)

I laugh when I see these because I've witnessed the process that leads to them. It goes something like:

  1. Relatively confusing UX is designed and built.
  2. User testing or executive review concludes the UX is relatively confusing.
  3. Product Manager says "We'll build a slideshow/interactive tutorial!" to solve the problem.

The process and end result is completely understandable. It's hard to rehash a design when you've already built it and gotten buy-in.

I want to spend as little time as possible with most tools (especially enterprise tools), and so often these interrupt my work.

State and local laws matter a lot. I moved to a tenant-friendly state (NY) from a tenant-unfriendly state (Texas). NY has much stronger protections for renters. Better eviction laws, access to housing court, and actual enforcement of housing laws.