Tim McCormick

That the richest man in the world agrees with this is insane. America was a worse place in 2000 than today. Higher crime, lower income, lower life expectancy. There were 673 murders in NYC in 2000. There were 303 murders in NYC in 2025.

See, it just doesn't bother me that the dominant class in, say, Boston, doesn't want the city to become the size of Shenzhen. Call that "anti-growth" or whatever. But if "more Boston" is what's needed, then why can't new Bostons be built elsewhere? Why instead this politics (where libertarians and socialists seem to increasingly agree) demanding high-value places become Borg Cubed and Gigantic?

The residual formula says (for a single parcel): land value = housing price - construction costs - taxes - profit. How does it make sense to talk about "increasing the supply of land"? The formula says only housing prices matter. But accounting is not economics. 2/

Before COVID-19, every US city had at least one dumpy, Bohemian coffee shop that was in an old house full of rooms like this. For the price (~$1) of the worst cup of coffee you've ever had, you and your friends could just hang out there all night, vibing out.

Before COVID-19, every US city had at least one dumpy, Bohemian coffee shop that was in an old house full of rooms like this. For the price (~$1) of the worst cup of coffee you've ever had, you and your friends could just hang out there all night, vibing out.

im still trying to figure out what the mythical “third space for teens” is that was apparently 100% free, abundantly entertaining, provided food/snacks and wasn’t educational. people keep talking about this place like it existed but never can give an example of what it was 😭

Singling out data centers over water use is bizarre. California’s data centers *combined* use ~2,300 acre-feet of water per year, that’s ~.006% of all CA water use and <1% of the water use by all golf courses in the state.