wanoir

Thank you for all the fish

Building from scratch is much easier / when you can demolish everything that pre-exists.

I don’t think this is realistic in already-developed areas where home values may already be very high.

Not aware of the Gary story! Would be curious to see how that’s going and if there’s local support / resistance.

One thing that can’t be scaled is “prime location”

There will be locations that are more desirable than others, and even if you keep building houses where there’s space, the need to congregate in particular areas (such as for work) will result in particular locations being more desirable.

And, it’s hard to increase the density of an area once the housing supply is already built out.

So instead, that supply stays fixed, demand increases, and the price increases in turn.

This actually made me think then that an accelerator for scalability could be: public transit into population centers that ensure areas with abundant space (and cheaper housing supply) can still easily access the areas that would otherwise be hugely expensive to live near

I believe this was done near DC where the public transit buildout helped foster further housing development in those emerging areas. Not sure if other HCOL areas, e.g. CA Bay Area, have similar things going on for East Bay mobility / other cross-county transport

Might be missing some details, but it feels more like remembering the past than writing a journalistic report

It has a personal memoir style that I like

This also kinda makes me think back to how most of the influential thinkers we know didn’t make their impact in the structures we know today. Makes me wonder if most of the prestige and “remnants” of those eras are actually just competitive pressure cookers that may not provide the environment anymore for the achievements they once enabled.

Once something catches on, jumping on the bandwagon gives people a sense of community.

But, the nature of what makes something viral, like how the article mentions pandemic, seems agnostic to what actually becomes viral. Why did labubus go viral and not something else[1]? It’s luck and timing, and we can try to reverse-engineer it, but it’s just being prepared & luck. We’re seeing a survivor bias and thinking the survivor is special inherently.

So what enabled Pop Mart to be prepared?

[1]Actually, there’s also sneaker hype, meme stocks, etc.

I especially despise sitting down right after lunch to get back to work.

I must take a walk first.

Taking a walk right after eating helps stabilize blood sugar and digestion.

Highly recommend.

Ooof. But hey, tastes could change!

I’m really curious how the brand reputations will carryover in the EV era…

All the reputations that car brands have are from their legacy of existing products. Who’s to say if they will continue in the same way for their new manufacturing processes, supply chain, branding, performance, positioning, etc. for their new EV offerings

It’s a new world!

I almost wonder if they should just start over with new brands.

Fascinating! But does this only apply if the company is incorporated in that particular state? If there is any state that doesn’t adopt the new law structure, then companies will just re-incorporate to that other state.

Of course, not every company may find it worthwhile to do that. So on the whole, it will probably mean companies that aren’t that involved in political spending will become even less involved. But, the largest spenders may find it worthwhile to re-incorporate so they can continue to do it.

It’s behind a paywall so I can’t read it :(

But glad to see more discourse around the desire for more connection and presence

Would be cool to see different column layouts too!