Mar 27My Favorite Books of 2022Previous Lists: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 In Praise of Shadows, by Juniricho Tanazaki Morgenthau: Power, Privilege and the Rise of an American Dynasty, by Andrew Meier The Laws of Trading: A Trader’s Guide to Better Decision Making in Every Day Life, by Augustin Lebron A Swim in the Pond in…1 min read1 min read
Jan 3, 2022My Favorite Books of 2021Previous Lists: 2020, 2019, 2018 Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Wrong, by Michela Wrong I spent a good deal of my 20s in East Africa. One of my many interests in the region was the seeming phoenix-like rise from the strong…Books5 min readBooks5 min read
Published inUrbanFootprint·Mar 17, 2021Planning Drone Delivery of Vaccines and Medicines to Rural AreasUsing the UrbanFootprint Urban Intelligence Platform to Map Last-Mile Delivery — Written in collaboration with Duke CTI Practicum (Fall 2020 Cohort) Executive Summary Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is expected to transform transportation in the coming decades. While the industry is still in its infancy, one of the most compelling short-term use cases is last-mile drone delivery of essential medicines and vaccines to rural…Urban Air Mobility8 min readUrban Air Mobility8 min read
Mar 16, 2021Planning Drone Delivery of Vaccines and Medicines to Rural AreasUsing the UrbanFootprint Urban Intelligence Platform to Map Last-Mile Delivery — Written in collaboration with Duke CTI Practicum (Fall 2020 Cohort) Executive Summary Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is expected to transform transportation in the coming decades. While the industry is still in its infancy, one of the most compelling short-term use cases is last-mile drone delivery of essential medicines and vaccines to rural…Urban Air Mobility9 min readUrban Air Mobility9 min read
Dec 21, 2020My Favorite Books of 2020A Mind at Play: How Claud Shannon Invented the Information Age, Jimmi Soni and Rob Goodman The story of the man and his fundamental 1948 mathematical insight that the technical problem of delivering a message can be separated from what a message means. Thus the Boolean bit was born. …4 min read4 min read
Feb 3, 2020Come for the Vision, Stay for the CraftThis week marks the end of nearly three transformative and magical years at the helm of CityBase’s product team. The lessons I learned at CityBase are rich and varied, but the one I’ve been thinking about the most is this: come for the vision, stay for the craft. Vision is…Govtech3 min readGovtech3 min read
Dec 21, 2019My Favorite Books of 2019Some of the best books shatter and rebuild your understanding of a topic, others are simply breathtakingly beautiful. Here is last year’s list. Travel The Beginners Guide to Japan, Pico Iyer In spare, Zen-like prose, Iyer reveals the soul of Japan and how strikingly different it is from the West. I’m…Books3 min readBooks3 min read
Feb 26, 2019Why I’m Running the Tahoe 200A couple months ago I signed up for the Tahoe 200, a 205.5 mile foot race with 40,200 feet elevation gain with a 100 hour cut off time taking place in September 2019. The course follows the Tahoe Rim Trail, with a handful of deviations into the surrounding wilderness. My…Tahoe3 min readTahoe3 min read
Dec 24, 2018My Favorite Books of 2018Some are new. Some are old. All are recommended. Endurance Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, Alex Hutchinson At any particular moment, what are seen as the limits of the human body aren’t really limits at all. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing You haven’t suffered…2 min read2 min read
Oct 14, 2015The Data Revolution Has a Software ProblemMeasuring the UN Sustainable Development Goals Requires Modern, Flexible Web and Mobile Applications In Dodoma, Tanzania’s administrative capital, a group of visibly frustrated economists and statisticians discussed their work inside a sweltering room. They were from the nearby Singida Region, and they were on the front lines of what UN…Open Data4 min readOpen Data4 min read
