December 2009
3 posts
Brief thoughts: "the recent graduate"
The problem of the recent graduate is as follows: People pay for the perception of value. In the world of mission statements, workplans, and tasklists, this means discrete use cases, requiring discrete skills. In the world of high academia (Berkeley), they don’t teach you skills. It ain’t trade school. But your graduate status serves as a proxy for the ability to do — or rather,...
“What Politico — and other campaign-obsessed outlets — fear are the...”
– Ezra Klein - Seven stories Politico fears
The big takeaway for me has been something I’ve been grasping at: what parts of the political science literature are used by practitioners?
It seems to me like in most other fields it’s relatively straight forward (e.g., econ relevant to...
CycleTracks for iPhone - San Francisco County... →
And I thought all that talk in City & Regional Planning about “process blah blah blah” was crap. Well, wow, this is the kind of thing that makes the SF rent premium worth it:
“CycleTracks uses your iPhone’s GPS support to record your bicycle trips, display maps of your rides, and help transportation planners make San Francisco a better place to bike. At the end of...