A few winters ago 35-year-old Massachusetts cyclist Tim Johnson, one of the country’s top cyclocross pros, was holed up in the Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu, training on the area’s labyrinthine network of canyon roads. He was staying at the house of Ben Bostrom, 38, a champion motorcycle racer…

Have I become a “Buddha” ? Its been a week since I got back from a 10 day Vipassana meditation camp. I wrote up my experience in a short blog post soon after coming back, but since then, numerous people have asked me: What was it like ? What was the hardest part…the silence ?What are your learnings…

And now you have to go catch one Published in Transit · 4 min read · Aug 29, 2017 -- We started Transit to provide our users with the ultimate urban transport experience. Beginning with public transit

Ash NYC's Williamsburg studio is located in just the kind of industrial redbrick warehouse the firm might like to turn into a hotel. Behind the gritty, graffiti-scrawled exterior is a 3,000-square-foot open-plan office that’s all stark and airy, with whitewashed walls and floors, rows of neat…

AJ+ 5 min read· Aug 17, 2017 -- By Dolly Li There’s a funny bit of insider knowledge hidden in the Chinese takeout menu above. Take a minute to find it. If you haven’t figured it out yet, here it is: It’s a “Chinese Menu” embedded inside … a Chinese menu. What’s going on here? Turns out most of the…

If you can walk a half mile with a child from your home and arrive safely at an actual destination, you’re doing well. Atlanta needs work. Darin Givens 3 min read· Jul 27, 2017 -- Zoom image will be displayed Zoom image will be displayed By October 2017, my wife and child and I will have lived in a…

Look at photographs from the early 1900s and you’ll see people using multiple forms of transportation — horse, car, bike or walking — on the same street. There are open air cafes and street vendors. Fast-forward 50 years and cars had overtaken streets, forcing pedestrians and bikers to the sides.…

Craig Cannon 12 min read· Feb 19, 2016 -- Heads up! Below is a long post about bike stuff. If you like this sort of thing you can subscribe to my newsletter about bike trips. I land in Tokyo and catch a bus to the city center. Pulling my bike box out from the bus, a station attendant gives me a look…

By connecting drivers to spaces at the start of a trip, tech can help fight the curse of cruising. Willa Ng 5 min read· Sep 21, 2016 -- City traffic experts have been studying how much drivers circle for parking since at least 1927. That year an engineer named Hawley Simpson reported that 19 to 34…

Pinterest Engineering 4 min read· Aug 18, 2017 -- Zach Westlake | Pinterest engineer, Core Experience While there’s been a lot of buzz around Kotlin lately, you may still be asking yourself why you should actually use it. What does Kotlin do that Java doesn’t? It’s good to maintain a healthy sense…

Last year, 78 midsize cities applied to the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) inaugural Smart City Challenge to develop projects for an "integrated, first-of-its-kind smart transportation system that would use data, applications, and technology to help people and goods move more quickly, cheaply,…

Gobot analyzes MTA’s service advisories in realtime Citymapper 5 min read· Aug 10, 2017 -- The New York City Subway is in distress. But you already know that: August 2017 New Yorker Cover Every New York City Subway Line Is Getting Worse. Here's Why. Jake Naughton for The New York Times Subway delays…

A whole generation of young workers are being priced out of renting (let alone, buying) in major cities. Parking deserves part of the blame, suggests a recent study. Since the 1940s, many US cities introduced minimum parking rules: for every new unit of housing, developers must also build a certain…

Station F is the world’s biggest startup campus. Thousands of entrepreneurs are currently moving into the new building here in Paris. But if you’re still wondering what it actually looks like, we visi

Reducing carbon emissions from home heating and cooling with geothermal energy Kathy Hannun 4 min read· Jul 6, 2017 -- For the past few years, my team and I have been on a mission to make it easier and more affordable to heat and cool homes with the clean, free, abundant, and renewable energy source…

Driverless vehicles are no longer the innovation of the future. They're the innovation of now. Just this month, New York and Georgia joined Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia and Washington D.C. to put autonomous…

My favorite part of keynotes is always the opening. That is the moment when the CEO comes on stage, not to introduce new products or features, but rather to create the frame within which new products and features will be introduced. This is why last week’s Microsoft keynote was so interesting: CEO…

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In the tug of war between the suburbs and the city, the suburbs are once again on top, growing faster than cities for the first time since 2010, according to new population estimates released Thursday

Zoom image will be displayed Heather Knight, Roboticist Heather Knight 5 min read· May 27, 2017 -- My colleague and I got to take a TESLA Autopilot test drive on highways, curvy California roads, and by the ocean. In case you don’t live in Palo Alto (where the Whole Foods parking lot is full of…

Uber’s UberPool service, which attempts to gather multiple people on a single vehicle going the same way, is undergoing some tinkering that will make it even more like fixed route transit. Andrew J. Hawkins at Verge has the story: [UberPool riders] are being prompted to walk to the closest corner or…

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Citymapper 5 min read· May 8, 2017 -- Reinventing the bus for the smart city era This has been a long time coming. We’re proud to unveil our biggest kept secret: Project Grasshopper (previously known as Project Caterpillar, (previously known as Project “yo, we should buy a bus. totally.”)). We’re…

“We would send group texts, ‘I just went to the bank — don’t try it,’” Germick said. He and his colleagues were heartened in August when Bill Clarke, Mission Beach’s manager, announced he had hired a

Mapbox Follow Apr 13, 2017 · 2 min read The new Mapbox Navigation SDK for iOS makes it easy to add a complete turn-by-turn navigation experience to your iOS application. The navigation SDK builds upon

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At first — or even second — glance at Snap’s S-1 it’s easy to see why many are drawing a comparison to Twitter. Like Twitter, Snap is losing a lot of money; like Twitter, Snap’s growth rate is slowing; and, like Twitter, Snap is actually losing leverage. To see what I mean by the last point,…

“I didn’t become a software engineer to be trying to make ends meet,” said a Twitter employee in his early 40s who earns a base salary of $160,000. It is, he added, a “pretty bad” income for raising a family in the Bay Area. The biggest cost is his $3,000 rent – which he said was “ultra cheap” for…

Sarah Spagnolo 8 min read· Feb 7, 2017 -- Three lessons for brands as hundreds of brick-and-mortar shops close in 2017 When a retailer closes stores, where do the shoppers go and how do shopping patterns shift? How much does a closed store impact the local economy, and a closed retailer impact…

One morning last December, cones and small signs popped up along Broadway, the main drag in working-class Everett, Massachusetts. The modest change, replacing a mile of curbside parking with a temporary bus lane, had big implications. After a week, city officials said riders were saving so much time…

In a world of ever-reducing space, a skyscraper is an efficient way to create homes and offices without too large a footprint. It is interesting, then, that so many skyscrapers are full of hot air. In the race for the biggest buildings, architects have fallen back on antennae and pointed spires –…

Liberty Memorial, Circa November 1999–May 2000 “Everything’s up to date in Kansas City. . . They went an’ built a skyscraper seven stories high, about as high as a building orta grow.” So sings the awe-struck Will Parker in Rogers and Hammerstein’s 1943 musical Oklahoma. If farm-boy Will’s critical…

Mapbox Follow Feb 7, 2017 · 8 min read We’ve improved text layout on our maps, with a special focus on right-to-left and ideographic scripts, like Arabic and Chinese. With readability as the first pri

Two weeks ago I published The Startup Idea Matrix to help founders with the brainstorming part of the startup journey. I thought I’d take some time to write about what comes after you find an idea that inspires you — specifically, how to build momentum for your idea. Over the past 7 years as founder…

Sam Gerstenzang 2 min read· Feb 15, 2017 -- I have no idea who is in the Billboard Hot 100. I’m not sure I could name a single song. I listen in a tiny Spotify-curated world, equally driven by the artists and albums I fell in love with five years ago, the taste of my playlist-sharing friends, and…

If you don’t already know Twitter’s mobile website is on a new web stack which includes React and Redux 🎉. After hearing the news I thought it would be fun to dig into their Redux store, and see how in the hell they organize all them tweets in their state tree. NOTE: All observations are from me…

Brian Donohue 7 min read· Feb 14, 2017 -- The Instapaper service experienced an extended outage between Wednesday, February 9 at 12:30PM PT through Thursday, February 10 at 7:30pm PT. We brought the Instapaper service back up with limited access to archives as a short-term solution while we worked…