Sublime

Zoning is losing its power. New ventures are able to reach a meaningful scale before regulators (and competitors) react. The boundaries between different uses are blurring, with people lodging in apartment buildings, living in hotels, working in restaurants and retail malls, and sleeping or socializing at the office.

Bill Bernbach’s letter of resignation from Grey in 1947, warning about the hidden costs of scale is the best thing I've read this year https://t.co/QNGwf1qF5h

‘The basic behaviour mode of the world system is exponential growth of population and capital, followed by collapse… Under the assumption that population and capital growth should not be deliberately limited but should be left to “seek their own levels”, we have not been able to find a set of policies that avoids the collapse mode of behavior.’