Baste bro

Do you give your wife sleeping pills to play Pokémon go???

howling!!!

Spooky bear Friday I lied

The abs are real don’t worry about it

😎😎😎

It’s a killer album!!!

In case you’re not a quirked up gay guy between the ages of 30 and 45 this is the visual reference

I’m gonna start doing this at my job

I also think mentioning large scale carbon capture and “green” air travel as possible scientific breakthroughs that might significantly impact humanity in time to be relevant to climate change conveys a significant ignorance to physics, economics, or both.

I want to touch on a few points that made me bristle in this chapter- I think talking about allowing immigration as solely an economic engine, and not as a moral imperative, is pretty tough to swallow…

I think there’s a hand waviness here that’s unnecessary. The authors cite our lack of information about the science happening. During trump cuts to NIH grants, there were loads of quantitative analyses of economic impacts of the funding, which could’ve been cited and expanded upon here.

For me, this is where Abundance creates its distinction from YIMBY, by expanding its scope from housing and infrastructure into science and research. Ultimately I think the connection is apt. The authors make the case well that bureaucracy and regulation have choked research and housing alike.

Ch 4: invent

I took some time away from this book and I’m back. This chapter covers research and invention in the US, framing around examples of Karikó’s mRNA research which facilitated the COVID vaccine, the NIH, Bell Labs, and DARPA.

He could fix me