Thomas Topero
@topero.bsky.social
Urban designer & geospatial data scientist; reframing our views & the questions we ask to attain authenticity & develop trust; full-time bicyclist, part-time cyclist
This may be the most salient advice for active “investors” (AKA traders) where the goal is financial growth & return, regardless of industry:
“It's essential to have a diverse set of strategies and then consistently apply them!”
Having at least one strategy per market condition is a good bet!
“It's essential to have a diverse set of strategies and then consistently apply them!”
Having at least one strategy per market condition is a good bet!
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This may be the most salient advice for active “investors” (AKA traders) where the goal is financial growth & return, regardless of industry:
“It's essential to have a diverse set of strategies and then consistently apply them!”
Having at least one strategy per market condition is a good bet!
“It's essential to have a diverse set of strategies and then consistently apply them!”
Having at least one strategy per market condition is a good bet!
In times of economic contraction, it’s typical for governments to squeeze blood from turnips by turning EFFICIENCY up to 11. A natural consequence is to consolidate contracts to fewer, larger organizations, again negatively affecting small/medium, local, women apr minority organizations. Stay alert!
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
In times of economic contraction, it’s typical for governments to squeeze blood from turnips by turning EFFICIENCY up to 11. A natural consequence is to consolidate contracts to fewer, larger organizations, again negatively affecting small/medium, local, women apr minority organizations. Stay alert!
Irony of GDP: to spend billions of $ to prepare to extract billions of resources & then to spend billions more to restore it that require billions more to maintain it forever is much better than to allow the land to retain its natural resources & operate natively (AKA no GDP value)
October 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Irony of GDP: to spend billions of $ to prepare to extract billions of resources & then to spend billions more to restore it that require billions more to maintain it forever is much better than to allow the land to retain its natural resources & operate natively (AKA no GDP value)
#PSL: Personal Seat License. A new expensive acronym to #broncosCountry. Look for a $4-5 figure charge for the privilege to hold the space to buy your season ticket & inflated prices!
youtu.be/aAC_y6lOQKE
youtu.be/aAC_y6lOQKE
How Billionaires Broke The NFL's Most Loyal Fans
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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October 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
#PSL: Personal Seat License. A new expensive acronym to #broncosCountry. Look for a $4-5 figure charge for the privilege to hold the space to buy your season ticket & inflated prices!
youtu.be/aAC_y6lOQKE
youtu.be/aAC_y6lOQKE
I often criticize cities for happening, not actually working. The individuals at the city work hard. But maybe it’s not able to work when a neoliberal bureaucracy is steered by a social liberal mindset. Trying to fulfill the needs of the individual in a system engineered to filter wealth to the few!
October 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I often criticize cities for happening, not actually working. The individuals at the city work hard. But maybe it’s not able to work when a neoliberal bureaucracy is steered by a social liberal mindset. Trying to fulfill the needs of the individual in a system engineered to filter wealth to the few!
When cities do something innovative for challenging populations, it’s imperative that they step up their game on management & enforcement to ensure that the project works for everyone. This is a typical example of the city taking its eye off after install. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
Following RV explosion and fire, Denver neighbors seek closure of micro community Elati Village
Neighbors living next to Denver's Elati Village micro community are asking the facility be shut down or moved "immediately" after an RV parked outside the facility burst into flames during the night o...
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September 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
When cities do something innovative for challenging populations, it’s imperative that they step up their game on management & enforcement to ensure that the project works for everyone. This is a typical example of the city taking its eye off after install. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
I bet we’ll be hearing this “obsolete” word thrown around with the Mile High Stadium as negotiations & asks for funds from “no new taxes” gets heated.
A #stadium that seats 70k + fans, is sold out & hosts every #NFL game type plus more is not obsolete, especially after 25 years! #Broncos
A #stadium that seats 70k + fans, is sold out & hosts every #NFL game type plus more is not obsolete, especially after 25 years! #Broncos
September 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Downtowns are like big banks: they’re too important to fail, will be the first area in a city where $ is pumped, & always the biggest expense of tax dollars, at the expense of the rest of the city, whenever downtown gets a chill, regardless of cancer anywhere else in the city.
September 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Downtowns are like big banks: they’re too important to fail, will be the first area in a city where $ is pumped, & always the biggest expense of tax dollars, at the expense of the rest of the city, whenever downtown gets a chill, regardless of cancer anywhere else in the city.
So many subtle ways cities remind apartment renters they’re 2nd class: all communications for utility work, service interruptions & major work in common (public) spaces get sent to owner of building, not residents, typically via utility bills. Common utilities->at the mercy of your landlord!
September 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
So many subtle ways cities remind apartment renters they’re 2nd class: all communications for utility work, service interruptions & major work in common (public) spaces get sent to owner of building, not residents, typically via utility bills. Common utilities->at the mercy of your landlord!
I imagine this surprises no one! What is more important to me is what they mean with the rhetoric of “transformational opportunity” as it’s been an industrial area since it was developed. The last thing we need is another trophy surrounded by a res of asphalt oceans for billionaires!
September 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I imagine this surprises no one! What is more important to me is what they mean with the rhetoric of “transformational opportunity” as it’s been an industrial area since it was developed. The last thing we need is another trophy surrounded by a res of asphalt oceans for billionaires!
Is labor a commodity? On this Labor Day weekend, we should ask ourselves if our current patterns of laborers vs craftspeople or even entrepreneurs is the trajectory we need to sustain our country for another century? If labor is a commodity, what do we need to do to support them?
August 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Is labor a commodity? On this Labor Day weekend, we should ask ourselves if our current patterns of laborers vs craftspeople or even entrepreneurs is the trajectory we need to sustain our country for another century? If labor is a commodity, what do we need to do to support them?
If we always insist that the desires of cars & their owners are accommodated on every area of common space, we’ll never get to safety, comfort or enjoyment for everyone. Want to raise the value of your house? Make the common around it for people, not cars.
August 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If we always insist that the desires of cars & their owners are accommodated on every area of common space, we’ll never get to safety, comfort or enjoyment for everyone. Want to raise the value of your house? Make the common around it for people, not cars.
Reframe: democrats are Social Liberals, republicans are Neoliberals! Two sides of the same coin but see the coin differently. The only opportunity for anything different is along the slim edge—where 99% of us actually want our government to exist!
August 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Reframe: democrats are Social Liberals, republicans are Neoliberals! Two sides of the same coin but see the coin differently. The only opportunity for anything different is along the slim edge—where 99% of us actually want our government to exist!
When we let either extreme dominate, the majority of people suffer. Housing: Social Liberals focus on total control to the point of little built; conservatives don’t want ANY rules so they can profit to the detriment of residents & the city. Rent control fails in both extremes!
July 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
When we let either extreme dominate, the majority of people suffer. Housing: Social Liberals focus on total control to the point of little built; conservatives don’t want ANY rules so they can profit to the detriment of residents & the city. Rent control fails in both extremes!
At the Apple Store, an English-only speaking employee started to assist a Spanish-only speaking customer. A minute later, a bilingual employee started helping me. I suggested they swap, but I was told they don’t expect their bilingual staff to help Spanish speaking customers because of technology.
July 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
At the Apple Store, an English-only speaking employee started to assist a Spanish-only speaking customer. A minute later, a bilingual employee started helping me. I suggested they swap, but I was told they don’t expect their bilingual staff to help Spanish speaking customers because of technology.
Whenever we hear the phrase “business friendly,” be it from “business” lobbyists, corporate heads or politicians, we need to think “corporate friendly” vs local business friendly. Ask yourself, are they promoting regulations & changes that would authentically help the entrepreneur or local business!
July 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Whenever we hear the phrase “business friendly,” be it from “business” lobbyists, corporate heads or politicians, we need to think “corporate friendly” vs local business friendly. Ask yourself, are they promoting regulations & changes that would authentically help the entrepreneur or local business!
How are accountants not like lawyers whose language is math and numbers, but results in similar obfuscation, selective transparency & slide of hand to present the desired complicated & convoluted story to prevent non-accountants from digging in & understanding how to #FollowTheMoney?!
July 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
How are accountants not like lawyers whose language is math and numbers, but results in similar obfuscation, selective transparency & slide of hand to present the desired complicated & convoluted story to prevent non-accountants from digging in & understanding how to #FollowTheMoney?!
Seems Siri needs a geography lesson. Unless Epcot was duplicated in California!
July 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Seems Siri needs a geography lesson. Unless Epcot was duplicated in California!
Most people would never relate the cities of Los Angeles & Denver together geographically. Yet in both cases, the downtown & cultural centers are strongly in one corner of the limits. They both have narrow connections to economic powerhouses detached from the core area: Los Angeles Harbor & DEN/DIA.
July 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Most people would never relate the cities of Los Angeles & Denver together geographically. Yet in both cases, the downtown & cultural centers are strongly in one corner of the limits. They both have narrow connections to economic powerhouses detached from the core area: Los Angeles Harbor & DEN/DIA.
What is the importance in maintaining the cliffs that are built into the social support system in the U.S.? Is it possible to have a slope instead, or at least step down for different levels of support? Is there anything ideological from any side that requires a cliff be maintained?
July 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
What is the importance in maintaining the cliffs that are built into the social support system in the U.S.? Is it possible to have a slope instead, or at least step down for different levels of support? Is there anything ideological from any side that requires a cliff be maintained?
A lens of a bureaucrat: what is the thing, question or task I can do to check off a box for my activity?
People engaged in bureaucratic thinking tend to be task oriented within a process framework, focused on getting a check-off outcome, rather than trying to understand the nature of the issue.
People engaged in bureaucratic thinking tend to be task oriented within a process framework, focused on getting a check-off outcome, rather than trying to understand the nature of the issue.
June 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A lens of a bureaucrat: what is the thing, question or task I can do to check off a box for my activity?
People engaged in bureaucratic thinking tend to be task oriented within a process framework, focused on getting a check-off outcome, rather than trying to understand the nature of the issue.
People engaged in bureaucratic thinking tend to be task oriented within a process framework, focused on getting a check-off outcome, rather than trying to understand the nature of the issue.
Cities that rely on citizen “complaints” to report every issue that isn’t aggregated as a large task for machines or crews is requiring residents to be Karen’s or Kevin’s at some point to get the most basic work done! That sucks!
June 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Cities that rely on citizen “complaints” to report every issue that isn’t aggregated as a large task for machines or crews is requiring residents to be Karen’s or Kevin’s at some point to get the most basic work done! That sucks!
With the U.S. $ the currency of oil, oil the currency of political power, is it presumed that if we don’t continue to use & control oil that we will undermine our power & that of the U.S. dollar? That supports a Republic thirst for oil and the subsequent power it provides!
May 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
With the U.S. $ the currency of oil, oil the currency of political power, is it presumed that if we don’t continue to use & control oil that we will undermine our power & that of the U.S. dollar? That supports a Republic thirst for oil and the subsequent power it provides!
Could it really be this simple: employment as a jobber is zero sum whereas employment as an entrepreneur is limitless?
May 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Could it really be this simple: employment as a jobber is zero sum whereas employment as an entrepreneur is limitless?