POD! On YIMBY Pod this week, Martin and I tried to sort fact from fiction in the case of Dobby’s grave, and we speak to London Assembly member Neil Garratt about his fantastic London travel times map, and his work figuring out why building infrastructure is so damn expensive. Listen here, or wherever you get your pods.
ESSAY: In case you missed it, my essay this week was offering some thoughts following the death of Jason Arday. Read it here.
Hello! It’s time for Odds and Ends, your regular round-up of the most interesting links I’ve seen lately, plus some shorter takes.
This time, I’m featuring:
Why we’re going to get lots of new flats near train stations (hopefully)
A new way to think about big, heavy industry
How to have more safe, clinical innovation
Can you help save a library under threat?
Has there just been a ‘ChatGPT moment’ for robotics?
How I predicted Amazon’s latest AI training trick
Why Doomerism is bad
And did Armando Iannucci predict the future 20 years ago?
Now let’s get started!