Toronto's East Bayfront has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. Remember when we used to complain that it was under-utilized? Here's what it looked like circa 2005 (photo via Waterfront Toronto):And here's what it looks like today:The waterfront has, in my opinion, become one of the nicest neighbourhoods in the city. I'm bullish on this part of Toronto. But it's not done yet. One key piece of infrastructure that was just completed is the landfilling of a part of the Parliament Sl...

The Paradox of Predictions: Why Founders Should Bet on Probability. Why absolute prediction is impossible, how your brain does it anyway, and how to use probabilistic thinking to build better startups.

I should have done this eons ago. After years of self-filtering, fighting flags, deboosts, weaponized moderation, straight-up censorship, and animosity in some way for my nudes on every platform, I’ve finally carved out a private space on Patreon: the Inner Sanctum. Everything I’ve held back is going there now: my full archive of nude artwork which includes glitch remixes, nude paintings, AI-work trained on my own paintings and soon to be body, the erotic stories I’ve been too nervous to writ...

Vitalik Buterin donated 16,384 ETH to support open-source, secure, and verifiable software and hardware focused on privacy.

I caught California’s gubernatorial climate forum this week and came away with a familiar feeling: we know the stakes, we know the tools, and yet our ambition still feels smaller than the moment demands. The candidates spoke thoughtfully about clean energy, affordability, water, wildfire, and environmental justice. All necessary. All important. But California’s climate challenge isn’t just about doing more of the same. It’s about remembering who we are. California has never won by being cauti...

We're building bridges, again, in issue #281 of your weekly poetry shot

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As a general rule, building a new building is easier than trying to do surgery on an existing one, because you never know exactly what you're going to find when you start the latter. But there are instances where surgery is necessary. According to Bloomberg, developers in London are becoming increasingly interested in the airspace above existing buildings, and it supposedly started because of some policy changes:In 2020, then housing minister Robert Jenrick introduced reforms that relaxed rul...

So I got recommended a book by speed reading and memory coach for CEOs, David Kirkpatrick (who I had on my podcast this week — you can see the interview here).