Ananya Ghose

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can be opportunities to bring back people-centered urban spaces on land where the once thriving, walkable, connected, urban residential neighborhoods of Buttermilk Bottoms and parts of Summerhill existed.
Atlanta's War on Density
These two redevelopment projects
Atlanta's War on Density
Conversational affordances often require saying something at least a little bit intimate about yourself, so even the faintest fear of rejection on either side can prevent conversations from taking off
Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
We overestimate the awkwardness of deep talk and so we stick to the boring, affordance-less shallows.
Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
It's easy to assume that givers are virtuous and takers are villainous, but that’s giver propaganda.
Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
Kant insisted that this reading misrepresented his position. While the dogmatic idealist denies the reality of space and time, Kant takes space and time to be forms of intuition. Forms of intuition are, for Kant, the subjective conditions of the possibility of all of our sense perception. It is only because space and time are a priori forms that determine the content of our sensations that Kant thinks we can perceive anything at all.
German Idealism | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Thus, Kant was taken to hold that space and time are “not actual” and that the understanding “makes” the objects of our cognition
German Idealism | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
received unsympathetic and generally uncomprehending reviews, conflating Kant’s “transcendental” idealism with Berkeley’s “dogmatic” idealism
German Idealism | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The complexities facing Mr. Joko are supercharged versions of those facing other leaders of developing countries. In the colonial era, places like Jakarta, then known as Batavia, were treated as little more than way stations for natural resources dispatched back to the seats of empire. Colonial complexes sprinkled with jacaranda and bougainvillea were surrounded by shantytowns. After the birth of independent nations, u
Indonesia Plans on Building Nusantara, a New Capital City - The New York Times
But the most interesting thing about Japan's leading commercial real estate companies is that some of them are not real estate companies at all. The country's transportation companies are also among its leading commercial real estate operators, and some have a strong presence in online commerce and cashless payments.
Future of Real Estate? Look to Japan
a growing amount of pedestrian traffic directed by online media, not traditional physical discovery. As a result, upper floors are becoming more valuable, and — with the right digital strategy— even more valuable than street-level retail.
Future of Real Estate? Look to Japan
Beyond their unique design and uses, what is most interesting about these concepts is their focus on the customer's job to be done — allowing people to receive precisely what they need when they need it and pay only for clear and direct value.
Future of Real Estate? Look to Japan
Some of Japan's capsule hotels have rates based on specific uses, such as a short nap, a shower, a night's sleep, or a full day. The country is also home to thousands of "Net Cafes" that charge by the minute and provide seating, wifi, and sometimes even showers.
Future of Real Estate? Look to Japan
Despite operating in a much smaller market, these residential construction companies tend to be considerably larger than their US counterparts. Most Japanese houses are built — figuratively and literally — on the assumption that they should last for no more than 30 years.
Future of Real Estate? Look to Japan
A person’s soul is nothing more than the things and people that she loves, the people who love her, and the impact that she has on the world, and we’ve encoded it on the blockchain, here it is. It would be a bummer to lose the private key to your soul.
The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine
It’s a peculiar way of looking at the world, a series of puzzles, a set of structures that people have imposed on economic reality. Often those structures are arcane and off-putting, and it’s satisfying to understand what they’re up to. Everything in finance is accreted on top of a lot of other things in finance. Everything is weird and counterintuitive, and you often have to have a sense of financial history and market practice to understand why anyone is doing any of the things they’re doing.
The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine
he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press.
Curius / Onboarding