Kevin Gammon

Worrying about what other people think of you kills innovation, creation and doing things that really matter. #creativity #entrepreneur #marketing #CMO medium.com/p/a29e36f5cc72…

@rhett_carlson No for 95% of streets. But if, for instance, they closed Clark st. and turned it into a pedestrian and bus rapid transit lane you’d see a boom all the way up and down- and with better transit service and walkability likely no impact to traffic or parking if not an improvement

@kgammon Should the city remove on street parking permanently then?

It feels like every time I’m in Chicago I’m discovering a new commercial High Street A few years ago it was Southport, this time it’s Armitage between Halsted and like Sheffield Small bay retail, local and national Common denominator: on street parking Street parking is not the enemy, take note Uptown Minneapolis

@GoldenGateBus @SFMTA_Muni You need to bring the 4, 18 and 24 back. Midweek traffic in Marin as bad as I’ve ever seen it. And trying connect with Marin Transit just isn’t working

Golden Gate Transit service changes on 4/12/26 are the result of a collaborative effort between nine transit and funding agencies to create a more connected, frequent transit network in the Highway 101 corridor. Read more: ow.ly/wJaA50Yt7Qx

@RetroBayArea North Beach is still very much like this.

San Francisco in the 1980s. Scenes of North Beach in 1982. Whenever I see older folks in neighborhoods like this, it makes me miss my grandparents and all the other people that were a part of my life when I was growing up. I miss the all the shopkeepers who knew your name and the neighbors who always looked out for each other. The stories they shared, their daily routines, and even the smallest gestures once felt ordinary but now seem invaluable. I think about them often, and whenever I catch glimpses of that kind of community, like the one North Beach had back then, it brings all those memories back. In 1982, North Beach maintained its reputation as San Francisco’s bohemian and Italian neighborhood. It was defined by old-school cafés, Beat-era history, and a growing nightlife scene. Broadway was packed with jazz clubs, dive bars, and strip clubs, while Mabuhay Gardens and The Stone were drawing punk and metal crowds. source footage 🎥: KTVU

@chicagobars Totally forgot that was Brother Jimmy’s. Loved that place

I got a hunch the former Lost Never Found that was formerly Casey Moran’s that was formerly Brother Jimmy’s BBQ is about to become Kincade’s Wrigleyville. Source: I am walking by and I can read.

@nickgillespie @HumanProgress @Marian_L_Tupy @chellivia Here's a look at where those "savings" went.

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If you're not following @HumanProgress, you're missing out--not on progress, but the best understanding of how things are getting better and why. Kudos @Marian_L_Tupy @chellivia

Psychology says the 1960s and 70s accidentally produced one of the most emotionally durable generations in modern history — not through better parenting but through benign neglect that forced children to self-regulate, problem-solve, and develop emotional- share.google/4ucVPZsWcdy4fd…

@jdreeves I am so happy you had that experience and the response you’re getting J.D. is so deserved. And NY is such a special place.

took my wife to NYC last week for her bday and got stuck there for a couple of extra days because of the snow. we rarely get time away from our kids but we saw 2 standup shows, a broadway show, a movie and went to 2 museums. we smoked cigs walking down the street on the upper west side in the middle of the night. we ate expensive meals and tasted some of the best food we've ever had. I'm still just buzzing from it all. I love her.

@fortelabs Nailed it

We are witnessing the rise of an entirely new echelon of productivity porn fueled by AI What we had before was modest and reasonable in comparison – maybe you’d waste an afternoon or two reorganizing your files or polishing your dashboard Now you deploy vast swarms of intelligent beings to construct civilization-scale monuments to your procrastination I really thought AI would offer an escape from the psychological traps that people get stuck in seeking to do meaningful, productive work Now I see it’s making those traps a thousand miles deep, tunneling straight into the infinite depths of productivity hell You can now throw industrial quantities of compute, power, energy, and attention at a problem rather than having to make even the simplest decision You can explore hundreds of parallel pathways instead of ever taking the risk of stepping down one. You can simulate worlds within worlds so you never have to pay attention to this one The potential for wasting time has multiplied so exponentially, it can now far exceed what was always the ceiling: the amount of time you personally have available Now you can waste the time of unlimited swarms of agents, all pouring their best effort into the most mundane aspect of your existence, trading bits of info back and forth in endless loops that you can convince yourself are adding value Welcome to the productivity singularity

By now you’ve seen clips of Jack Doherty getting banned from PGA Tour events. But if you are over 45, you probably don’t know how bad it really is. Jack has made millions doing this. He walks around harassing people and hides behind a giant bodyguard. And millions watch. And envy. Imagine the dude who yelled jackass? He gave up his Waste Management ticket so he could impress a kid YouTuber for 1 second of “fame”. This slop and slop like it is consumed in the billions of hours daily. Teens are watching and seeing a kid like them become a millionaire by being a horrid person. We live in Idiocracy. And we haven’t even seen the results yet, these kids haven’t grown up. Already there is proof that IQ is dropping fast in our young people. You can see why. Kudos to the PGA Tour for handling it swiftly. Banned for life right there.

@realEstateTrent Move that circle up so that the bottom of it is where the top is, and then you’ve got it right

Hands down one of the best areas to live in the world

@ProducerCities Isn’t this just an example and indicator of what’s happening in the entire country? Quick Pew Research Center pull: Middle class households accounted for about 62% of total U.S. household income in 1970, but by 2022 that share had fallen to around 43%.

Chicago’s Middle Class Is Disappearing: “The middle class is declining because the top 10% is swelling” in the city, says demographer Rob Paral, “& the bottom 20% is swelling. In a place like North Center, the median income is going through the roof” chicagomag.com/city-life/chic…

@mathieuhelie @humantransit Oh and the killing of a million people every year, that’s pretty awful too.

@humantransit Cars are fantastic, it’s the traffic and parking that’s awful.

If cars were things that we only used if and when they give us pleasure, we would have few transportation problems, and excellent public transit. The problem is lack of options.

@appenz Not to belabor it- bigger point is that if you were to design from scratch a modern, efficient, affordable way to transport a lot of people safely it wouldn’t be a fleet of a gazillion 4 passenger cars.

@appenz Yeah if it’s a meeting I get that. And Waymo is way better than driving yourself (especially if it’s paid for)- at least you can get something done or read.

One hour Waymo ride from San Francisco to Menlo Park via highway 280. It’s over, cars are self-driving. Everything else is just about rolling this out to the rest of the world.

@appenz Why not take Caltrain for the bulk of the trip and Waymo for the last part to get to your destination? (I assume that’s the part that take the extra time given that Caltrain doesn’t have the variability that traffic causes). And I would think a whole lot cheaper

@kgammon Caltrain is not bad, but it takes about 30 minutes longer for me in average. I often can’t afford that.

@RyanGreeneDNVR The divisional loss to the Jaguars in 97 was worse I think.

Broncos fans will usually bring up 2012, but 2005 is the REAL lost championship year for me. AFC CG IN DENVER vs. a Wild Card Steelers team right after beating Brady and the Pats the week before, I'm getting so mad just thinking about it

Transit is 20-70 times safer than driving and walking and biking is actually good for you.