Here are a couple of articles that are worth reading — from housing to health, these stories use data to explore challenges we face and demonstrate how policy solutions along with civic engagement can make a real difference in people’s lives. nytimes.com/2020/02/13/bus…

This is a lousy idea from Sen Sanders. Many if not most startup options are never exercised and expire worthless. Their value is highly uncertain. If they are taxed on vesting, employees will have to pay cash taxes without knowing their value, and no one will want them.

Genius city, facing down a possible pandemic-driven recession, passes special interest initiative that city economist says will reduce the GDP by $23 billion dollars.

Prop E’s passage is perhaps the worst institutional political failure I’ve seen in my 23 years in SF. Prop E is a dumpster fire. It‘ll reduce $ for affordable housing/transit, cost SF’s general fund billions, push out start-ups/nonprofits & fuel office sprawl (w increased VMT).

All over the world, the authorities are closing down parks and trails—but that's unsustainable, counterproductive and probably even harmful. Instead, we should adapt to the pandemic and retool them for social-distancing. My new piece on why and how. theatlantic.com/health/archive…

This might take the cake for most scraping-to-call-something-reporting tech news of 2020: a whole article explaining that you can delete a slide in PowerPoint by right-clicking and selecting "delete slide".

Schedule some time soon to listen to this week’s show; a tour of Kubernetes’ scheduling, with David Oppenheimer (davidopp). David worked on Borg and Omega, and explains how those systems influenced #Kubernetes. 📃 kubernetespodcast.com/episode/114-sc… 🔊 kubernetespodcast.com/subscribe

The next SF District Attorney election is in 2023. If we don’t want more innocent to die, we probably need to get organized around a recall of Chesa Boudin. This will keep happening: S.F. parolee accused of killing 2 pedestrians was free despite arrests sfchronicle.com/crime/article/…

SF D.A. Chesa Boudin's radical policies are killing innocent San Franciscans. It's time for him to go. If you agree, please share my blog post. davidsacks.medium.com/the-killer-d-a…

Thank you Nellie Bowles and the The New York Times for putting a spotlight on our City and telling the world the Miami story! nytimes.com/2021/01/29/tec…

University of Berkeley has banned outdoor exercise, including solitary outdoor exercise, in response to a COVID outbreak. I had read the article to make sure this was not a parody. sfgate.com/education/arti…

As SF schools remain closed, the School Board: (a) renamed 44 schools with an embarrassingly bad process; (b) ended merit-based admissions at Lowell HS w no process; (c) rejected a very qualified gay man for a parent committee w numerous vacancies. 😳 sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…

The anti-nuclear movement is up there as one of the most destructive of all-time. The triumph of emotion over rationality, and we haven’t even started to truly pay the price. From: newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…

Microsoft to plot with European lobbyists to destroy the basic internet freedom to link, further tilt the playing field against smaller publishers, smother future startup business models in the crib, and make Rupert Murdoch more powerful, all to inconvenience Google a bit.

Brilliant article (well, it's by zeynep tufekci so you wouldn't expect anything less). It's amazing how much better we could have done with better communication. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

OMG, yes, yes, yes, yes! cbsnews.com/news/daylight-…

Nuzzel made Twitter usable. Extremely well. Twitter should have acquired them ages ago. Twitter being Twitter, they didn't. Now they are acquiring Nuzzel's parent Co & improving Nuzzel by...shutting it down! Oh, Twitter 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ blog.nuzzel.com/nuzzel-is-goin…

12-hour timelapse of American Airlines, Delta, and United plane traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history forced a nationwide ground stop of the three airlines.

Very nice analysis by neurosurgeon Dr. Jon Slotkin of how Waymo's autonomous vehicles have much better safety properties than human drivers, and what would happen if everyone in the U.S. drove as safely as a Waymo. "The national math: If every US vehicle performed like Waymo, we’d