Fighting through the decline

  • #SU4T – Why we need to fund transportation.

    creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-ND ) flickr photo shared by avantard Today, April 9 2105, Stand Up 4 Transportation and let congress know that we need to fund our transportation system for the long term. You might have seen something about it on Twitter under the hashtag #SU4T. There are press conferences and rallies all…

  • Get ready for SLA BOSTON!

    In June the SLA Annual Conference is taking over Boston. To get ready I made this playlist.  Listen and weep.

  • Be radical in your actions, not just your words.

    This week I had a long discussion at KALX about how meaningless the term hipster is. Basically the trend setters are out there doing things, expressing themselves, and living their culture. They are too busy making it happen for themselves to call themselves a hipster, in fact they will tell you they aren’t if you call…

  • How can you innovate without research?

      Yesterday I went down to Google HQ to see Secretary Foxx hold a fireside chat with Erich Schmidt to discuss DOT’s new 30-year plan Beyond Traffic.  I’ve never been to an event like this before, and it seemed the audience was industry more than the usual transportation wonks (though we were there).  There was a…

  • All slow pop songs sound the same? On Fair Use and some such.

    Have you heard Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me”? You must have. It’s all over the place. Everybody loves it. (Even if you can’t really dance to it.) Some people pointed out the chorus sounds a lot like another ubiquitous pop song of yesteryear – Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down”. Not sure? check this out:…