Scott Wessman
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Scott Wessman
@scottew
building payments tech at Etogy, previously @visa and @globalpayinc, former lawyer, runner, father of 4

Corkscrew, a new Bicentennial-themed roller coaster, opens at Cedar Point, Ohio.


Presented without comment..


New AGF blog: Tokyo is the world's most affordable megacity--and they're still permitting homes at many times the pace of NYC, London, Paris Yet land prices are still very high! A 1-acre suburban home in Chiyoda would cost over $100M before you nail the first board Tokyo shows structures can be affordable if you stack enough of them on pricey land. It also shows that YIMBYism will not crash land markets or impoverish land-rich homeowners in attractive areas Tokyo also heightens the contradictions of the profit-focused version of the Homevoter Hypothesis: In the highest-demand neighborhoods of the US, the homevoters prioritizing "Boomer suburb vibes" are not just hurting renters, they're costing *themselves* billions of dollars of land value



Xi Jinping when he was 32 years old at San Francisco

--model miles-brundage-5-14-26 --reasoning low

NEWS -- President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources tell me @PCCharalambous @alex_mallin abcnews.com/US/trump-poise…


Very cool new GMO: the Philippines just approved a high-iron variety of rice that could provide 30-50% of the recommended daily allowance of iron. About a quarter of people around the world are anemic, mostly in developing countries isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotech…

The Jazz have already reached out to the Wizards inquiring about a potential trade up from No. 2 to No. 1 for AJ Dybantsa, per @MarcJSpears (andscape.com/features/utah-…). Dybantsa would be able to stay home in Utah, if a pick swap actually occurred.











