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harpersplay · 3 years

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The 19th Amendment & My Mama by Mahogany L. Browne

I always took it for granted, the right to vote She said And I knew what my mother meant Her voice constricted tightly by the flu A virus & a 30-year-relationship with Newport 100s I ain’t no chain smoker she attempts to silence my concern only a pack a week. That’s good, you know?

My mother survived a husband she didn’t want and an addiction that loved her more than any human needs

I sit to write a poem about the 100 year Anniversary of the 19th Amendment & my first thought returns to the womb & those abortions I did not want at first but alas

The thirst of an almost anything is a gorge always looking to be until the body is filled with more fibroids than possibilities

On the 19th hour of the fourth day in a new decade I will wake restless from some nightmare about a bomb & a man with no backbone on a golf course who clicks closed his Motorola phone like an exclamation point against his misogynistic stance He swings the golf club with each chant Women let me grab Women like me Women vote until I say they don’t

In my nightmare he is an infective agent In the clear of day he is just the same

Every day he breathes is a threat to this country’s marrow For Ida & Susan & Lucretia & Elizabeth Cady

& every day he tweets grief like a cynical cornball comic’s receipts like a red light signaling the end of times

The final night of 2019 & my New Year’s Eve plans involves anything that will numb the pain of a world breaking its own heart

My mother & I have already spoken & her lungs are croaking wet I just want you to know I don’t feel well & I pause to pull up my stockings beneath my crumpled smile On this day I sigh I just wanted to dance & drink & forget about the 61.7% votes

My silk dress falls to my knees with the same swiftness defiant as the white feminist who said “I’m your ally” then voted for the demise of our nation’s most ignored underpaid, imprisoned & impoverished citizens

Every day there is a telephone near I miss my mother In the waiting room of the OB/GYN Uptown bound on the dirt orange train seat of the subway O! How my mother loves the places she can never go Her bones swaddled with arthritis & smoke So she relies on my daily bemoans

The train smells like yesterday, Ma They raise the tolls & fix nothing for the people My landlord refuses to fix my toilet, my bathroom sink, my refrigerator The city is annoying like an old boyfriend, always buzzing about nothing & in the way of me making it on time to the polls This woman didn’t say thank you when I held the door & who does she think she is?

Each time I crack & cap on the everydayness of my day My mother laughs as if she can see the flimsy MTA card The yellow cabs that refuse to stop for her daughter In these moments she can live again A whole bodied woman with a full mouth to speak it plain

I ask my mother what hurts? What hurts? How can I help from here?

3000 miles away Alone in a tower between the sea & the Mexico borders

My mother sighs a little sigh & says Nothing I just wanted to hear your voice

Listen to the poet read the poem here.

#poetry #mahogany l browne #national poetry month

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racheljiyoungshin · 4 years

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Hello from quarantine! I’ve developed a horrible habit now that i’m no longer spending money on the MTA, coffee, and happy hour and that hobby is spontaneously buying any book i want, when i want. My wallet will never be at peace. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I’ve had my eye on this beaut f o r e v e r. Written by Susan Orlean, it delves into the horrific day 34 years ago when the Los Angeles Public Library caught fire, erasing 400,000 books from this earth. A tribute to librarians and libraries everywhere, I’ve heard this book is a *chef’s kiss.* •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Also, dont forget to support your local libraries during this time!! • • • #thelibrarybook #susanorlean #bookstagram #bookish #bibliophile #bookworm #bookhaul #tbr #booklover #booksofinstagram #blog #bookblog #hujicam #bookphotography #read #reading #bookishthings #bookreccomendation #책스타그램 #블로그 #일상 #북스타그램 #채읽기 #thatsdarling #aesthetic https://www.instagram.com/p/CDusIZiA5LY/?igshid=1g71mh33ytc0p

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critwits · 4 years

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Stipan Tadic studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and Columbia University’s MFA Visual Arts program. He currently resides in New York City and works primarily in painting and producing comic books.

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Susan M B Chen, a first-generation Asian American, paints portraits of her racial community to investigate the psychology of race, and the varying viewpoints her sitters have on ideas of home, immigration, prejudice, identity, family, longing, love and loss. She usually finds her sitters, who are strangers, on various community social media groups on the Internet. She received her BA from Brown University (2015) and MFA in Visual Arts, Painting from Columbia University (2020). In 2019, she was a finalist for the AXA Art Prize. She is temporarily painting in her New York City apartment until safer times allow for her to relocate to a professional art studio.

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James J.A. Mercer is a New York based artist working in painting, drawing and video. He received a bachelor’s degree in Printmaking from RISD and is currently an MFA candidate at Columbia University. In 2014 he was a resident at Clocktower Productions and has exhibited at Pioneer Works and the Drawing Center. His animated videos were featured in the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation in 2018. On the occasion of the pandemic, James has temporarily relocated to working in suburban Massachusetts.

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moderntimeadventure · 10 months

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I know I've never talked about them on here but I promise you that Susan and Frieda are my specialest silliest favoritest blorbos ever they take up 90% of my thoughts brainrot fr fr

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mtaartsdesign · 7 months

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Leaf peepers can delight in Susan Tunick’s “Brighton Clay Re-Leaf Nos. 1-4" (1994) at Prospect Park (B, Q) and Parkside Av (Q) stations in Brooklyn any day of the year. The motif is rendered in multicolored ceramic mosaics that bring bold color and pattern into these two 1919 stations, adorned with wall tiles and decorative borders influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. Tunick's work complements the vintage ceramic ornamentation of the station and is inspired by the shapes and shades of foliage found in nearby Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

📸 1-3: MTA A&D/Rob Wilson, 4: Peter Mauss

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sylviabobby1974-blog · 7 years

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March 31, 2017...2:53 p.m. After midnight last night, I was sitting at a bus stop off of Market Street, near the Bank of America, not too far away. It is in front of the Westfield Mall. I was approached by what appeared to be 4 under 18 black teens; they were very violent. One of the black teens lit a cigarette lighter and threatened me with it (the flame). One of her male friends threatened me with another white one. Then she lit a paper and lit the paper and threw it at me. I was awestruck. I was astounded that in this day and age, any human being could do something, commit such a heinous act against another human being. I looked her right in the eyes too. She kept calling me a bitch and then without provocation, she punched me, and she did so repeatedly, again without provocation. I sensed that they tried to terrorize me into running/walking away into a darker street on either side of them. I didn’t. She came at me again when I moved away from the bus bench towards the tree/sign next to it. She kept coming at me, with another black male. She then proceeded to lit the back of my hair on fire, twice. Then one of the black teenagers took my peach-striped tote bag directly from me, and threw the rest of the contents out on the street directly in front of the bus stop in front of us. She lit my blanket on fire. I didn’t even try to confront them for several reasons; I didn’t even raise my hands to hit her back. I was just...struck by the evil. It’s been on my mind all morning. In this day and age... She proceeded to come at me, and I fell to the floor and she kicked me. I got back up and shit hit me again. I then had a couple of impressions that this shit was leaving on me: rodney king beatings by the cops back in 1991, 1992? (bicycle cops in Sacramento included, blonde. I called her Barbie, once; she used the NSA. Rumor had it that she was directly involved with the incident with Rodney King and that she fled the scene of the crime; the rumor was going around in 2013-14 I think; *beyond police brutality. Another thing that came to mind was the truck driver that got beat, white male, by several black men. I believe these thugs set it up that way. One of the males literally tore off one of my silver earrings. The other one came off afterwards. She kept hitting me, and she obviously did something to my forehead. I took a look in the mirror this morning. Looks like a satanic sign, an upside down arrow. They eventually walked away. When I got back to Glide for breakfast, perps using the NSA there, including staff and all volunteers, mocked me and called me a BEANER, just like the thugs did. The staff at this place, The Tenderloin Technology lab, 150 Golden Gate, 3rd Floor, 94102, did the same. She’s actually wearing a dress to mock me, round color, short, something that I used to wear when I lived in a board and care eary in the 2000s in San Diego possibly Char Lou Manor, 2456 E St, 92102, off of 25th and broadway. SAN DIEGO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH. She’s a heavyset woman, with dark rimmed glass and big tits. She’s taking pride in that right now as she and hers are adamant about making a statement for Women’s Month, this month.She is, unfortunately, wearing stripes down the side, signifying anti semite PALESTINIANS, like the stripes that CHRIS GUILLEBEAU wears on the cover of the book that I found at the children’s section of 330 park blvd, Central library, 92101. I turned in those books to my boss(es, the federal govt), a few years ago, online, including a book on Charles Bronson. The etching on my forehead is pronounced. Everyone can see it. Word got around. I hadnt even gotten online. Good community and they are not involved. I also heard SUSAN, the case manager at SHARPE outpatient day program off of el cajon blvd, in city heights say “we got the bitch” she’s one perp; I did 4 years in their outpatient day program. One of them stated that the teens were involved in Jessie, our brother who had Tourette’s Syndrome, murder in SAN DIMAS, ca. They also threatened to beat me again if I said anything. They may not be minors, by the way. The Tenderloin Technology lab is definitely involved. Hennis Lewis, who is SHARPE and lives in SKYLINE hills, NINA SKY whore, off the 11 mta bus line, believes in WICCA. She has her own table set/mantle. Evil dark people. What they’ve done...to others. People of color. I’ve had shit on my mind all day. I figured the etching on my forehead is some kind of threat by their cult. They may have had other victims, dead ones included, to whom they have done the same. ...because of who I am: Hate Crimes, and because of what I believe in. My brain power included. Please share: SHAKIRA and GLIDE and all aforementioned definitely involved. Meryl Streep and their cunts included. They need to be shot: they all pose a clear and present danger to the USA. Ban them from the WHITE HOUSE TOO. Cesar Chavez rocks! You bitches suck dick. Good for nothing WHORES!!! FYI!!!--> More power to Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American Civil Rights Activist, to Mexicans, y que viva la mujer LATINA VERDADERA. FUCK J LO skank too. I saw your shit online. FYI!! --> It’s about time? AND YOUR MURDERERS AND BABY RAPISTS ARE WHERE NOW? you did NOT get the MEMO again ladies! THIS IS MARTIAL LAW: YOU *ARE THE ENEMY, PUTAS!!! FYI!!!--> I’m with the National Guard, WHORES/ISIS whores. Gen. Sylvia Lydia MORELOS

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aion-rsa · 4 years

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Mimic Reboot Television Series Set with Paul W.S. Anderson to Direct

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Mimic may not be one of the more widely-discussed titles in the ‘90s movies conversation these days, but the 1997 horror film—an early blockbuster attempt from a certain upstart director named Guillermo del Toro—is about to reenter said conversation on the back of a developing reboot television series.

Miramax Television is bringing the Mimic property back to the forefront with a small screen serial reboot, according to Deadline. The would-be series has been put under the creative auspices of action movie maker Paul W.S. Anderson, who is to direct the pilot and serve as executive producer, joined in the latter capacity by frequent partner Jeremy Bolt. However, the day-to-day duties will be handled by appointed showrunner and writer Jim Danger Gray (Hannibal, Orange is the New Black), who will also serve as an executive producer. There’s no word yet if del Toro will have any involvement.

The 1997 movie, Mimic, was an adaptation of Donald A. Wolheim’s 1942 short story of the same name, with Guillermo del Toro directing off a screenplay he co-wrote with Matthew Robbins (a collaboration that would be replicated with 2015’s Crimson Peak). The film centers on entomologist Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino), who utilized a genetic-engineered method to eradicated disease-carrying subway cockroaches in Manhattan with a hybrid insect called the Judas breed, which bears an enzyme that manipulates the roaches’ metabolism to starve them into extinction. However, Tyler’s early success leads to the unforeseen circumstance of a rapid evolution for her size-grown species and its titular ability to mimic prey—which now happens to be humans. Thus, Tyler, ventures underground to correct her mistake, joined by her ex, a CDC bigwig (Jeremy Northam), his assistant (Josh Brolin), an MTA officer (Charles S. Dutton) and a subway shoe-shiner looking for his missing ward (Giancarlo Giannini).

However, the film, which hit theaters on August 22, 1997, was a dud at the box office with a $25.48 million gross from its domestic-only release, rendering it a major financial loss against a $30 million budget. Moreover, under the umbrella of Miramax, it was a tumultuous early big studio experience for the eventual The Shape of Water Oscar winner del Toro—allegedly marred by constant interference by the Weinsteins—that nearly drove him out of the business, and occurred during the Miramax employment tenure of star Sorvino that eventually led to her accusations. Yet, the television arm of the now-restructured (Weinstein-less) studio is reportedly making the Mimic television project a high priority and a bellwether attempt to mine the Miramax library for television projects. As Marc Helwig, Head of Worldwide Television lauds of the project:

“Miramax TV couldn’t be more thrilled to be in business with Paul Anderson, Jeremy Bolt and Jim Danger Gray on Mimic,” Helwig said of the new series, which will be shopped to buyers soon. “Paul is one of the leading filmmakers of his generation in the world of science fiction, and we are excited to bring a bold new take on this classic title to life in television that will make your skin crawl, scare the hell out of you and speak loudly to these strange times we all find ourselves in. I couldn’t think of a better writer to bring this world to life than Jim Danger Gray, whose work I’ve admired for a long time.”

Of course, the Mimic television project has veteran guidance with Paul W.S. Anderson at the helm, bringing vast genre-pertinent experience as the writer/director of the 2002-2016 video-game-adapting Resident Evil movie franchise (all of which starred his wife, Milla Jovovich), along with Pompeii, Three Musketeers, crossover Alien vs. Predator, cult space sci-fi outing Event Horizon, sci-fi actioner Soldier and the still-celebrated 1995 original Mortal Kombat movie. As Anderson chimes in on this television adaptation effort.

“The world of insects has been a long-term fascination of mine. So much strength and organization from such tiny creatures that have existed long before humankind and will survive long after our demise. It’s an exciting world that I’m thrilled to jump into, especially with such great partners as Jim and Miramax.”

It will certainly be interesting to see how Mimic manifests in the realm of television. For now, though, the project is just getting off the ground, with no network or streamer secured as of yet. In the meantime, those who are unfamiliar with the original film can check out the trailer just below.

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cpw-nyc · 5 years

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Fun Maps: See the Population of Manhattan Hour by Hour

Susan Xu 05/15/2018 Arts & Culture, New York, News

Manhattan is a constantly active hub, but a new data visualization map by @citrusvanilla paints a portrait of exactly how many people flow in and out of the borough, hour-by-hour and block-by-block, over the course of a typical Spring week.

The visualization, called the Manhattan Population Explorer, uses data from the U.S. Census in conjunction with estimates of subway inflows and outflows - collected from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s turnstile database and Steven Romalewski’s MTA subway data - to showcase just how dynamic population movement is.

After all, Manhattan is New York City’s most densely populated borough, and it also has the highest ratio of daytime-to-nighttime population (nearly 2 to 1) of anywhere in the United States.

https://untappedcities.com/2018/05/15/fun-maps-see-the-population-of-manhattan-hour-by-hour/

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toomanysinks · 5 years

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How far are you willing to go for growth?

There is a deep dilemma facing startup founders that I think just isn’t brought to light often enough. On one hand, almost all (and I do mean almost all) founders are reasonably ethical people. They can be over-optimistic, they can over-promise, they can be inexperienced around management, but at their core, they want to improve the world, build something new, and yes, make (a lot) of money while doing it.

Yet, if you really want to grow fast — so fast that you can go from piddling startup to $1.7 billion valued banking unicorn in less than four years — then there are only so many ways to do that ethically. Or even legally, given that the laws around industries like banking aren’t designed for high growth, but rather sedentary expansion.

Here’s a lesson that I think founders internalize very, very early: growth solves all problems. And it is absolutely, 100% true. Growth absolutely solves all problems. Want to make your next fundraise a cinch? If you grow 5x or 7x year-over-year, watch as dozens of venture firms squabble to get access to that cap table. Want to hire faster and attract better talent? Growing at top speed is an easy way to lock in those people.

And if you think the board acts as a guardrail, you have never seen the giddy excitement of a VC who is seeing their yacht / Napa vineyard / Atherton estate being financed before their very eyes. Boards don’t ask tough questions in periods of high growth, they double down: “do everything to keep this rocket ship shooting for the stratosphere.”

In these situations, it is nearly impossible to balance growth and ethics. You can’t just say, “turn on the money laundering thing again and we will accept 5x instead of 7x” or whatever. The whole organism of the startup has been geared for growth. Hell, even the people not working for the company (but want to) are geared for growth. Every salary bump, equity distribution, performance evaluation, feedback, KPI, and firing is predicated on growth.

Sometimes you get away with it, and sometimes you don’t. Uber got away with it, Zenefits did not.

So where does Revolut sit, which I’ve been foreshadowing here? By now, you might have come across the three-part story arc of Revolut, a digital banking service based in London. In part one, Revolut is a fintech darling founded in July 2015 that has since raised $336 million in venture capital within four years at a $1.7 billion valuation according to Crunchbase.

Insane growth, huge market, real product. It’s the best first act for a startup one can possibly hope for.

Then the bad news started hitting hard this week. In act two, we get this Wired exposé by Emiliano Mellino that discusses the atrocious working conditions of the company along with deeply questionable employee interview tactics:

She did a 30-minute job interview over Google Hangouts with the London-based head of business development, Andrius Biceika, and was immediately told she had passed to the next round, which would involve a small test. “The surprise came when I received the task and it asked me to get the company as many clients as possible, with each one depositing €10 into the app,” says Laura.

And using fear to goad performance:

Last spring, CEO Nikolay Storonsky sent an announcement to all staff through the company’s Slack messaging service, saying that any members of staff “with performance rating [sic] ‘significantly below expectations’ will be fired without any negotiation after the review”.

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Around this time, CEO Nikolay Storonsky gave an interview to Business Insider where he said Revolut’s philosophy was to “get shit done”, a slogan that is emblazoned on the company’s London office walls in bright neon lights. In an echo to what was going on in these calls, Storonsky would go on to say in the interview that the company attracted people that want to grow and “growing is always through pain”.

Well, there is more growth to come, because act three is going to bring a very painful episode for the company. My colleague Jon Russell noted that Revolut’s CFO has resigned in the wake of a Daily Telegraph investigation showing that Revolut had switched off the anti-money-laundering safeguards at the company, because, well, it got in the way of growth.

Let’s be clear: we all love a rapidly-growing startup. We all want to invest or join a winner. But what are we willing to forego to get it? Are we willing to push ethical boundaries? Are we willing to use dark patterns to force those numbers higher? Are we willing to break the law and potentially go to prison? Our love of growth often knows no bounds.

In context, I’m sure Revolut’s decision came easily, but of course, for disinterested observers, the idea that you would switch off the AML system at a banking startup just looks like complete stupidity. Yet, I am not sure I am ready to blame the employees of Revolut (or its leaders frankly) before I place the blame on a culture that demands extreme growth, and dislikes it when the consequences come to bear. You can’t get extreme growth without something breaking. We need to decide which value is more important for us.

Extra Crunch ethics series

Not sure we are going to be able to answer all the questions posed by Revolut, but Extra Crunch will be hosting a series of dialogues around tech ethics in the coming weeks that will try to parse some of the tough challenges that come from technology and startups these days. Stay tuned.

Why fundamental self-interest causes US infrastructure to fall flat on its face

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Written by Arman Tabatabai

Yesterday, DJ Gribbin, a fellow at Brookings and a senior US government infrastructure official, published an op-ed in which he attributes the US’ infrastructure struggles largely to 1) a misunderstanding of federal fund availability, 2) the fragmentation and variability of local infrastructure needs, and 3) misaligned incentives for local politicians and contractors.

Local politicians push heavily for the federal government to cover a portion of their bill, advertising the money as free to their constituents. In reality, investing federal funds is a zero-sum game that requires either more taxation, higher debt, or pulling money from elsewhere. What results are the competitive bid and bureaucratic review processes we discussed earlier this week that ultimately lead to gamesmanship and misinformation.

The federal-local coordination has grown more difficult as projects have become more localized with region-specific needs and benefits, compared to national projects of old like the highway system. Now, executing local developments depends on coordination between federal, state, and local governments, leading to the political pissing contests we all know and love.

In Gribbin’s mind, the biggest flaw in the US’ approach to infrastructure – also raised in our conversation with infrastructure expert Phil Plotch — is the misaligned incentive system that encourages bad behavior from all parties.

The complexity of approval and funding processes causes local politicians to either delay projects as they lobby for federal funding or to “overpromise and underdeliver” on costs and benefits to push a project through.

Similarly, competitive RFP bidding used to reduce cost estimates encourages contractors to similarly overpromise, leading to plan revisions, construction issues, and delays that seem to be inevitable for every major project. Clearly more needs to be done to align the incentives of each of these players.

Software and infrastructure

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New York City rail operators grew frustrated this week with the contractors hired to install a new safety system. Fumbled management and failed execution on what was thought to be a simple tech integration have caused multi-year delays, potentially pushing completion past the deadline set by the Federal Railroad Administration for railroads across the country to upgrade their safety systems.

Only about one-tenth of the mandated rails had successfully upgraded their system as of last year as local agencies continue to struggle with designing software and hardware platforms compatible with other trains that may use their lines. That pattern is also found in New York. From the Wall Street Journal article:

The projects have suffered a series of setbacks because of understaffing by the contractors as well as software and hardware failures. Those failures include the recall of antennas that were installed on more than 1,000 rail cars and that were later found to be defective.

“It was a novice error and we did not believe we had hired novices,” MTA board member Susan Metzger said.

The New York project mimics issues plaguing projects throughout the US, where contractors use the “overpromise, underdeliver” strategy to win competitive bids. Add in software incompetence, and you get the mess that New York is facing now.

DC commutes suck more than in NYC and SF, even before Amazon materializes

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Written by Arman Tabatabai

According to a new data set from Bloomberg, the cost of commuting into Washington D.C. is higher than any other metro in the US. Though density is clearly a factor here, workers in the greater D.C. area face the longest commute time in the country at nearly 80 minutes on average. Bloomberg then derived a “score” for the opportunity cost of commutes based on average annual incomes and average total annual commuting hours per worker, weighted based for other externalities such as how early or late average departures were.

D.C. is in the midst of seriously expanding its Metrorail system but, unsurprisingly, the project has gone far from smoothly. Bloomberg’s findings stress the need for an improved transit system in the region but based on precedent and progress to date it’s unclear if and when the full expansion will be complete and at what ungodly cost.

We’re planning on diving deeper into D.C.’s Metrorail expansion project as we read The Great Society Subway by Zachary Schrag, which just arrived at Extra Crunch HQ this week.

Obsessions

We have a bit of a theme around emerging markets, macroeconomics, and the next set of users to join the internet.

More discussion of megaprojects, infrastructure, and “why can’t we build things”

Thanks

To every member of Extra Crunch: thank you. You allow us to get off the ad-laden media churn conveyor belt and spend quality time on amazing ideas, people, and companies. If I can ever be of assistance, hit reply, or send an email to [email protected].

This newsletter is written with the assistance of Arman Tabatabai from New York

source https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/01/how-far-are-you-willing-to-go-for-growth/

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