Ewan Duncan
@ewanwho.bsky.social
Design, CX, analytics, Seattle/Sports, sailing/Sea, snowboarding/Snow
When in Seattle?
🤔 Tube strike forcing you to rethink the commute?
🚴 Don't put yourself through the painfully slow bus or the painfully overpacked train - make the most of the September sun and ride into work!
You never know, you might actually enjoy it... 👀
🚴 Don't put yourself through the painfully slow bus or the painfully overpacked train - make the most of the September sun and ride into work!
You never know, you might actually enjoy it... 👀
September 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
When in Seattle?
Reposted by Ewan Duncan
Let's take a look at the hilliest neighborhood in Paris—home to Montmartre—and see how their topographical constraints have impacted population density.
September 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Let's take a look at the hilliest neighborhood in Paris—home to Montmartre—and see how their topographical constraints have impacted population density.
Reposted by Ewan Duncan
Washington needs 250,000 new homes just to balance supply and demand and stop housing costs from increasing.
September 7, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Washington needs 250,000 new homes just to balance supply and demand and stop housing costs from increasing.
Maybe applies to the one way three lane urban speedways through downtown Seattle?
A simple way to improve American downtowns: Make one-way arterials bidirectional.
Doing so will improve safety, boost retail sales, and attract pedestrians.
Me, in Bloomberg 🧵
Doing so will improve safety, boost retail sales, and attract pedestrians.
Me, in Bloomberg 🧵
One-Way Streets Are the Wrong Way to Tame Downtown Traffic
In the 1950s, US traffic planners thought unidirectional arterials were better for moving cars through urban areas. Now many cities are having second thoughts.
www.bloomberg.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Maybe applies to the one way three lane urban speedways through downtown Seattle?
Reposted by Ewan Duncan
New newsletter: Pilates is surging, yoga's on fire, gyms are packed, and Americans are working out more than ever. Why?
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-great-...
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-great-...
The Great American Fitness Boom
Pilates is surging. Gyms are packed. Americans are working out more than ever. A graph-by-graph guide to the fitness revolution sweeping the country
www.derekthompson.org
August 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
New newsletter: Pilates is surging, yoga's on fire, gyms are packed, and Americans are working out more than ever. Why?
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-great-...
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-great-...
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From Mary Meeker’s slide deck this week: Number of days it took “foundational technology products” to reach 1 million users:
* Ford Model T: 2,500 days
* iPhone: 74 days
* ChatGPT: five days
www.bondcap.com/reports/tai
* Ford Model T: 2,500 days
* iPhone: 74 days
* ChatGPT: five days
www.bondcap.com/reports/tai
June 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
From Mary Meeker’s slide deck this week: Number of days it took “foundational technology products” to reach 1 million users:
* Ford Model T: 2,500 days
* iPhone: 74 days
* ChatGPT: five days
www.bondcap.com/reports/tai
* Ford Model T: 2,500 days
* iPhone: 74 days
* ChatGPT: five days
www.bondcap.com/reports/tai
Look at how many corporate jobs moved from Seattle to Bellevue and beyond over the same time period…
Some rough news on the Jumpstart tax for Seattle.
New revenue report shows that Jumpstart payroll expense tax revenues in Seattle were $47 million less than forecast last year, demonstrating the volatility of a tax that comes overwhelmingly from about 10 companies.
www.seattle.gov/documents/De...
www.seattle.gov/documents/De...
March 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Look at how many corporate jobs moved from Seattle to Bellevue and beyond over the same time period…
I believe the Bezos quote is something like "your margin is my oppty" - vertical integration, single payer model, self-insured, ...
The facts are, the ACA saved millions with pre-existing conditions and set standards for care.
But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix.
The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.
But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix.
The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.
January 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I believe the Bezos quote is something like "your margin is my oppty" - vertical integration, single payer model, self-insured, ...
I love this idea. I'd add the (recently redeveloped for cars) waterfront too
turn seattle's olmsted boulevards into tree streets w/ bus and bike access only, then zone for 4-6 story midrise buildings for a quarter mile on either side
January 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I love this idea. I'd add the (recently redeveloped for cars) waterfront too
This is great! A quest for doing nothing, or least practicing not being busy all the time (or on screens, as I type this :)
I always forget to post Gift Links! Thanks, Hussain.
Thanks for this, Chris. Cant wait for the book.
Gift link here for everybody:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
Gift link here for everybody:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
January 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is great! A quest for doing nothing, or least practicing not being busy all the time (or on screens, as I type this :)
Democracy dies in the daylight!
this makes my head hurt
December 28, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Democracy dies in the daylight!
Yes - Edinburgh is close to my heart! Densify, go vertical, more green!
<the single stair whisperer has entered the chat>
Looking at apartment neighborhoods in Los Angeles (left) and Edinburgh (right) shows us how allowing taller buildings (four stories vs two) makes it possible to have much more green space.
December 10, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Yes - Edinburgh is close to my heart! Densify, go vertical, more green!
Should do this in all streets!
that's right
This just in:
The City of Kenmore (population 24,000, north end of Lake Washington) just started 24/7 camera enforcement of speed limits in school zones.
No fines have been issued yet, just warnings.
The rate of people speeding has dropped from 50% to 5%.
The City of Kenmore (population 24,000, north end of Lake Washington) just started 24/7 camera enforcement of speed limits in school zones.
No fines have been issued yet, just warnings.
The rate of people speeding has dropped from 50% to 5%.
December 9, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Should do this in all streets!
This is how we will get serious about climate change - when insurance becomes unaffordable for a majority...
December 6, 2024 at 7:16 PM
This is how we will get serious about climate change - when insurance becomes unaffordable for a majority...
Time to figure out how to build better - denser, affordable housing; accessible transit; and support easier business growth...
Every Democrat who’s still understandably clueless as to how they could possibly lose to such a thoroughly unfit, horrible human being like Donald Trump would be well advised to read this paragraph from @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev.👇
November 27, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Time to figure out how to build better - denser, affordable housing; accessible transit; and support easier business growth...