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How I nailed one month of New Year Resolutions, lost ten pounds, prioritized my life and calmed the F down. Science & Strategies for Using Coach.me Published inBetter Humans · 9 min read· Feb 8, 2016

Preamble:This post is a synthesis of some of the things I've learned while serving as an analyst at USV. Were these ideas and observations wholly my own, the title of this post would be "How I succeed

The closest subway station to Bob Friedrich’s home in eastern Queens is 10 miles away, so he drives to work in Manhattan at least three times a week. Mr. Friedrich, an accountant, is one of thousands

Nick Bowden 3 min read· Jan 1, 2018 -- The new year provides an opportunity to look forward and imagine what’s possible — and likely — over the next 12 months. The broader govtech / urbantech industry took some steps forward in 2017, but what can we expect to see in 2018? Here are a few predictions:…

2 min read· Jan 1, 2018 -- Below are some of the technology products that made 2017 better for me (see my 2016 list). To help contextualize some of the products on here, I spent roughly six months of

DealBook From Bezos to Walton, Big Investors Back Fund for ‘Flyover’ Start-Ups The AOL co-founder Steve Case, front, and the author J.D. Vance quietly recruited some of the country’s wealthiest people

Eric Jorgenson 5 min read· Dec 5, 2015 -- Note: The 11 Best Books for the Business Strategy Master has been republished on my new website, ejorgenson.com. Come visit and subscribe to read all my new blog posts. As the curator and compiler of The Evergreen Library, I’ve spent many hundreds…

In industrializing 19th-century cities like London and New York, horses played a key (and evolving) role in both transportation and pollution. By the 1860s, horsecars (horse-drawn streetcars on rails) had gained traction against more limited horse-drawn carriages. Horsecars offered a smoother ride…

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This week, we learned that tech guru and mega philanthropist Bill Gates purchased 25,000 acres of land in Arizona with the intent to build a…

Mike Ushakov 8 min read· Nov 19, 2017 -- After my favourite writer Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, I read one of his interviews. “I would, for a four-week period, ruthlessly clear my diary and go on what we somewhat mysteriously called a “Crash”. During the Crash, I would…

This article is by James Everingham. He's currently the Head of Engineering for Calibra at Facebook, but at the time he was the Head of Engineering at Instagram. I didn’t intend to go into computer science, and I definitely didn’t expect to become a manager. Instead, I started out thinking I’d be a…

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New York to Replace MetroCard With Modern Way to Pay Transit Fares A new system for passengers to pay fares will replace the MetroCard, 30 years after it replaced tokens for subways and buses.Credit..

It goes much deeper than “build more housing” Justin Krause 8 min read· Oct 27, 2017 -- The affordability crisis is suffocating San Francisco. Without a six figure salary, rent control, a trust fund, or a willingness to embrace poverty, you’re out of luck if you want to live here. The people who…

NEW YORK (AP) — Pinterest often gets lumped in with social media apps like Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook, but people don’t use it to meet new people or to keep in touch with old classmates. It’s designed more to let you get in touch with your own interests, tastes and hobbies. “There other people…

The evolution of connected technology and its impact on our society is truly amazing. From smartphones and tablets to thermostats and home appliances connected devices have begun to generate a seemingly endless stream of real-time data and information. This evolution, however, has barely just begun.…

New York has the world's highest subway construction costs—something that local media, including Curbed, has covered extensively. But scant attention has been paid to operating costs, meaning the cost of running and maintaining the subway system rather than expanding it. New York City Transit’s…

2017-08-29 Here's a dumb extremely accurate rule I'm postulating* for software engineering projects: *you need at least 3 examples before you solve the right problem*. This is what I've noticed: Don't factor out shared code between two classes. Wait until you have at least three. The two first…

Welcome to Flatland, Kansas City PBS’ Nonprofit Newsroom, and your new home for CityScene KC content. Retired journalist and CityScene KC founder Kevin Collison generously donated the site’s content archive to Flatland. Learn more about Collison's contribution and explore more CityScene KC articles…

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Sarah McNally was born to be a bookseller. Her parents are Canadian literary legends, having founded the Winnipeg-based independent bookstore and cultural hub, McNally Robinson, in 1981. Now, with a number of other locations, McNally Robinson calls Sarah’s New York City venture a sister-store,…

Home Urbanist News Politics New Species of City Discovered: The University City Op-Ed: These six cities have an Austin-y upside that is theirs to lose. Lexington, Kentucky (Photo by Britt Selvitelle)

Three weeks ago, I returned from a 10-day Goenka Vipassana meditation retreat at Dhamma Dara in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. Goenka (1924–2013) was a Burmese-Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation. His teaching was notable for emphasizing that the Buddha’s path to liberation was non-sectarian,…

As the subway train rolled into the Jay Street–MetroTech station in Brooklyn, my stomach churned at the thought of what lay ahead. I wondered to myself why I was so nervous: Having navigated the New York subway system in my power wheelchair for the past five years, this scenario wasn’t anything new.…

If there’s one thing Google’s got at its disposal, it’s a global army of avid map users. Now the company is leveraging that power to make its Maps feature more useful for people with mobility challenges—a group that often gets overlooked in the world of transit and urban innovation. Google Maps…

The Bay Area is experiencing a housing shortage that threatens to transform our entire region, undermining our economic competitiveness, our diversity and our environment. The factors that have contributed to our current situation are wide-ranging and well- known, including local concerns about…

Stevenage, the first of England’s post-war New Towns, was widely proclaimed in the 1960s as a shining example of how the provision of high-quality, joined-up cycle infrastructure would encourage many people to cycle – not just keen cyclists. The town, 30 miles north of London, had wide, smooth…

Sunlight Foundation 4 min read· Aug 31, 2017 -- Zoom image will be displayed Open data has become a crucial part of emergency response to natural disasters. This week, Hurricane Harvey is demonstrating how robust open data systems can help any city cope with and recover from disaster. The City of…

Complex adaptive systems are hard to understand. Messy and complicated, they cannot be broken down into smaller bits. It would be easier to ignore them, or simply leave them as mysteries. But given that we are living in one such system, it might be more useful to buckle down and sort it out. That…

Alta 6 min read· Sep 11, 2017 -- Maybe you’d like to take the bus to work, but the walk to the bus stop is too long. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a way to get to the bus stop faster than walking, but without having to deal with the hassles of park-and-ride? Behold! — the humble bicycle. The…

Mapbox 4 min read· Sep 15, 2017 -- By: Peter Liu How would you describe your morning commute? If you’re like most people, it starts with a ballpark estimate of how long it usually takes. Or maybe several estimates, depending on when you leave for work, how bad traffic is, or whether you’re walking,…

Welcome to Curbed’s first-ever Transportation Week! From how to improve public transportation in cities, ranking the best car-free neighborhoods across the country, and a friendly competition between NYC, San Francisco, and Los Angeles to determine which has the best public transit, this week is all…

Opinion Credit...Jun Cen See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. The suburbanization of America marches on. That movement includes millennials, who, as it turns out, are not a monolithic generation of suburb-hating city dwellers. Most of that generation…

Emily Castor Warren 8 min read· Sep 18, 2017 -- When you think about Los Angeles, a lot of things come to mind. Hollywood. Beaches. La La Land. But somewhere, close to the top of that list, has to be cars. In LA, they’re everywhere. In fact, 24% of LA’s land area is made up of asphalt, streets, and…

Illustration: Anna Parini What is this midlife crisis among the 30-year-olds I know? Millennial women — at least those who reside in professional bubbles — seem to have it all. They are better educated, more prosperous, less encumbered by cultural expectations than any previous generation of women.…