Bias towards health | Embrace cognitive dissonance
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Building upon my experiences consulting with a number of organizations and working on new projects, I’ve decided to start Easement.
Easement is an executive search and consulting firm focused on the intersection of housing + health
easementhealth.com
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Dan Doctoroff once had more power to decide what got built in New York City than anyone since Robert Moses. Now living with ALS, a neurodegenerative disease that attacks the motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, he says he has changed dramatically. nyti.ms/3Z6vh7v
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Consumer spending is 70% of GDP - people are the economy! But how did we come to be “consumers”?
A discussion of needs vs desires through the lens of The Century of the Self and Life After Lifestyle
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Excited to announce the launch of LiveNearFriends
I believe there actually is “one weird trick” for a happy life.
It’s living within a short walk from close friends or family.
LiveNearFriends is a tool to help you make that happen.
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livenearfriends.com
Samir Khanna retweeted
YOU are extending the patent of bedaquiline in countries impoverished by racism and colonialism--like Sierra Leone. The bedaquiline patent SHOULD end 20 years after you filed it on July 18th, 2003. But you're extending it, denying people access to affordable lifesaving treatment.
Samir Khanna retweeted
You know who is rightfully terrified of private equity? New residency/fellowship graduates. Right now, independent, physician-owned practices have a massive recruiting advantage. You should be shouting your hatred of private equity from the rooftops.
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Every KPI has downsides
Bad part of "On-Time/On-Budget" for groundup construction is focusing on a number over quality or future Op-Ex
THE stupidest budget cut I ever made on a deal was eliminating hallway corner guards. Saved ~$5000. Easily lost more the first week of move-ins
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New survey results confirm: Most Americans don't want car-oriented suburbs. They want walkable mixed-use neighborhoods and will pay more to live in them.
They will choose an attached home over a detached one if it means a shorter commute and walkable community.
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We need to turn so much in the built environment today into something else: offices into homes, homes into offices, hotels into SROs, office parks into real neighborhoods, curb parking into transit lanes.
But we have developed a conversion problem: nytimes.com/2023/07/01/upsho…
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“If you see companies going through layoffs, it’s going to change your economic perception… But there is a vein of distrust that runs deeper than that and this cynicism bleeds into how everyone interacts with the economy and interprets the collective reality”
"What if we treated illness not as an opportunity to maximize value, but as an opportunity to extend the quality and length of human lives" - @cdmitpih per @johngreen
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America doesn't build big things fast...
...Except in PA, where we just REOPENED I-95 in 12 DAYS & CELEBRATED BY RIDING ALL OF OUR MASCOTS IN ON A FIRE TRUCK. 🇺🇸
PA just wrote the playbook for building things fast in this country. I wrote it down.
notboring.co/p/how-to-fix-a-…
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wrote the newsletter this week about how traffic is depicted in Curb Your Enthusiasm, how transportation is increasingly a place we inhabit, and how we'll eventually stop caring about traffic even as it gets worse
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/i…
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1/ Exciting news! Our new venture, Hamlet, is live in ~30 CA cities. Our mission: Making public documents digestible using a mix of AI & human editing. Think City Council minutes, budgets, real estate data, flu trends & AQI info made simpler. myhamlet.com/ 📚🤖
'In our optimization of healthcare and delivery of svcs, we are all crowding out the intrinsic motivation of these dedicated professionals and patients.'
Appreciate the candor from @vgargMD and solid questions (as always) from @RelentlesHealth
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🎯 @edyong209
"If you don't allow people the privilege to take care of their health, and their family's health, without sacrificing their livelihood things are going to break in spectacular ways. That should've been the lesson from the last three years."
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Could companies be in a position to finance housing acquisitions for homelessness non-profits? Credit to @JoeKiani, @Masimo , and @FriendshipShelt for showing a new way forward in financing housing for the homeless
#housing #health #homelessness #finance
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Paved Paradise 99percentinvisible.org/episo…
As Axios Local expands, I’m curious to understand where it begins to run into new local publications ie., Making a Neighborhood.
@JimVandeHei @alirachelpearl
nytimes.com/2022/03/07/busin…
latimes.com/california/story…
Slick idea, curious if locally oriented news items will be featured / if local newsrooms will participate
axios.com/snapchat-newsrooms…
@subes01 really out here doing the thing. Very excited for this to go live
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