One more shared micromobility operator has reported positive EBIT. 🚀 Veo

Joining Judge Glock and Conor Dougherty in making the (to me, obvious) point that solving our housing crisis requires both building up *and* building out. Thing is - suburbs don't have to be lifeless and exclusively car-dependent! You really can get the best of both worlds

Charlie Munger has a famous quote: "Show me the incentives, and I'll show you the outcome." Both political parties have made homeownership a key priority while decrying the rise of build to rent communities funded by Wall Street. One big driver is that the tax code is nearly

New bike lanes are good, but paint on the street and some floppy plastic sticks are NOT protection. Without hard barriers of some kind in place, these will draw few new riders.

Lyft entering Europe techcrunch.com/2025/04/16/lyf… via @techcrunch and Rebecca Bellan

Big personal news: I walked away from my cushy writing job at Every 📧 to launch my own startup today. The Leverage is my big swing. Starting a company while parenting a newborn feels a little insane, but I couldn't keep this idea inside me anymore. It has to exist. Tech

My Veo colleague Alex Keating shares in Streetsblog USA the impact of tariffs on micromobility + how we can work together with cities to adapt 🛴🚲

👀 Tomorrow Startup Grind I’m diving into the truth about AI & startup journalism w Alex Konrad (Upstarts Media), Kylie Robison (WIRED), and Charles Rollet (TechCrunch). It’s quite literally going to be a front-row seat to writing AI history while the ink is still drying...

Something that would've been unthinkable just a few years ago: tonight, Santa Monica City Council voted 6-1 to *support* #SB79, Scott Wiener's bill to upzone around & legalize new housing in areas near transit stations!

masterful gambit, zaz

It is really weird that we have collectively chosen to memory hole this fact.

I didn’t realize that a basic reason affordable housing costs so much is that the actual cost carries such a low weight in winning the bid

I think whether you hate Abundance or love it, you’ll find this article very clarifying theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

What's happening now is we have until the session adjourns tonight to get the votes. Take a deep breath and TAG NON-VOTERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA!

Please Lola Smallwood-Cuevas vote yes to help us build a sustainable future in LA

SB 79 PASSES OUT OF THE CALIFORNIA SENATE! 🎉🥑

But when will they order pilots and copilots to make small talk before a commercial flight….

Now living in Los Angeles I realize now that a major media issue for understanding anything that takes place in LA is that LA is really, really, really fucking big.

The Human Driving Era: - 30% to 60% of urban land is used for roads and parking spaces - Average daily commute about 1 hour - Cars are parked about 95% of the time - 15% of cities are reserved for parking - 30% of traffic is people finding parking - Families spend $10k/year for