Jake Schmidt (@TheJakeSchmidt) profile picture

Just some guy. Housing policy, bikes, mass transit, New York City, local politics, finance, software engineering, not necessarily in that order.

New York, NY
Joined June 2012
The wonders of adequate housing stock: as the drummer for My Bloody Valentine, you can be homeless while recording Loveless and yet sleep in a house every night.
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Replying to @AlanMCole
Sure, but I didn't assume you meant "the virus has been eradicated", but that the society-disrupting novel pandemic phase was done. But it seems even milder than that - you meant that the actions we needed to take in response to the pandemic were ~done, which seems accurate.
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It's pretty bad that so many public and quasi-public entities still have these kinds of signs up, almost 5 years after they were even potentially true.
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Hey, I've seen this one!
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I don't know if I would have posted results if that 100% bucket weren't perfect, but luckily I didn't have to learn that about myself today
second order knowledge is basically knowing what you do know vs what you don't know - it's how well calibrated you are confidence.success-equation.… is a really cool site that tries to measure if you're generally overconfident, under confident, or correctly calibrated in your beliefs!
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Yesterday I re-read my favorite short story about financial planning
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Do you think some of the regulatory hydra's heads find the other heads embarrassing?
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If the entrance isn’t visible from the street you have to install a sign that is *eight feet wide* describing the location of the entrance. What?
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Once you understand the housing shortage, you see the corrosion everywhere. (from Fleishman is in Trouble)
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