traughber

This is awesome.

I roast coffee at home and have been experimenting a lot with ratios and techniques for brewing. I've come to realize that my favorite technique is cold brewing. For home coffee brewing, I think it's underrated. I make a batch on the weekend, and for the rest of the week I have coffee ready to drink whenever I want it. The concentrate can last a long time without any big changes in the flavor profile, and I can make coffee of varying strengths (by adjusting the water dilution). I highly recommend cold brewing at home if you like coffee and have yet to try it.

This is fantastic. Great breakdown of the different city types.

The area around Mint Plaza in SF, specifically at and around Blue Bottle, does this well. This was achieved by closing off that street to vehicle traffic, and allowing only people on foot and bikes in that area.

Actually, I think areas with more density are actually better for achieving what the author describes.

I live in SF and have both a personal commuter bike, and a BABS membership. When I factor in the convenience of not having to do any maintenance on the BABS bike, don't have to worry about fixing any flat tires, don't have to worry about theft (a big problem in SF), and can quickly dock a bike where I'm going, $88 a year feels like a very good deal. The only thing preventing me from going 100% BABS is the network of stations in SF is very sparse and located mostly downtown (see: https://twitter.com/ptraughber/status/388368763281625089).

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This is nuts.

I remember reading this back in 2008 when Randy Pausch shared this on his site as he was fighting cancer: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/Web/People/pausch/news/index.ht...

What about a bunch of partitioned rooms with soundproof glass walls?

This is click bait.

We still have four months left!

As a fan of cooking without fire, I like this.

Based on what I saw from researching this piece, many of the drivers in the accidents are professional truck drivers, who typically have a lot more experience and more stringent driver's education requirements. It seems that in a lot of these collisions they simply don't see the cyclist (note that many are during right turns, when a cyclist would fit in the blind spot of a truck). This happens to me constantly, both on my bike and driving a car (not being able to easily see a person on bike approaching from the back right part of my car). I think protected bike lanes would help mitigate that risk in that situation, as an example. And yes, it'd be nice if we didn't require so many streets and vehicles in our dense cities. Vehicles require a lot of space and it'd be a great public benefit if we could use that space for people and figure out a different, efficient way of move people and goods around a city.

People driving cars and people riding bikes are sometimes careless, take shortcuts, and break the rules. We do a lot to deter that behavior (citations, education, public awareness campaigns) but there is always going to be some degree of that no matter how hard we try to avoid it.

What we can do, however, is better design our streets so that this behavior from both people in cars, or bikes, or pedestrians doesn't end in serious injury or death as often as it does today.

I've added some results from studies on bike lanes and paths (see bottom of the post). Please pass along any feedback you have.