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👋, I’m Josh.

This website serves as scratch pad for my ideas and words.

I value coherence, meaningfulness, compassion, and kindness.

Overall, I care a lot about “cities”, the built urban form, transportation networks, and how issues of ethics play out in these domains. 😬

America is full of this: subsidized and ugly

I desire to nudge the ecosytem towards producing more of this:

illegal but beautiful

Pretty much all forms of human flourishing go up, and many forms of human suffering become less, when the landscape looks more like the former, above.

Additionally, consider not just a block or a store-front, but what would be directly opposite that block:

crossing the street

The cost per square meter and value per square meter of these two competing visions are quite different.

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