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Book Review – Superconnect: Networks and Weak Links

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments book reviews, greg lockwood, malcolm gladwell, network effects, networking, networks, outliers, platform revolution, richard koch, social networks, superconnect book, superconnecting, superconnector, talking to strangers, weak links, weakest link, you are the weakest link

Richard Koch & Greg Lockwood’s 2010 book “Superconnect” is sort of a Malcolm Gladwell-esque, quick read I came across.

Urban Planning Cities & Urban Planning Tech

Tech Launched A Big Push To Fix Cities. What Happened?

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, affordable housing shortage, airbnb, backyard, ben huh, cavnue, cheezburger, Ford, GM, google, greg lindsay, heavy timber framing, i can haz cheezburger, manufactured housing, manufacturing, memelord, memes, modular housing, nithin vejendla, platform economy, quiet pivot, Richard Florida, samara, sidewalk infrastructure partners, sidewalk labs, silicon valley, social construct, startup, sustainable cities, tech, tech startup, waste, y cities, y combinator, Y-Combinator, yc

Sidewalk Labs (Google), AirBnB, and Y Combinator all launched ambitious initiatives to build the technologically advanced, equitable, sustainable cities of tomorrow. What happened?

Urban Planning Mobility

Book Review – Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car

February 4, 2021February 3, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, anthony townsend, ArgoAI, artificial intelligence, Autonomous, autonomous vehicles, AV, AV tech, AVs, BRT, car culture, cars, connected cities, connected vehicles, cruise automation, distribution, driving, Ford, fulfillment, fulfillment centers, GM, infrastructure, infrastructure deficit, infrastructure spending, integrated, jeff bezos, jeff bezos skull keg party, lidar, machine learning, microsprawl, public transit, self-driving, self-driving car, self-driving cars, smart cities, smart city, tech bro, tech bros, transit, trucks

Can autonomous cars save us? Well, no, but they can provide some vital innovation to our society. Provided we play our cards right, that is. Anthony Townsend’s book gives us the lowdown.

Finance Urban Planning Finance

Short Circuits: What’s Going On With GameStop Stock

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bed bath beyond, big short, COVID19, derivatives, finance, gamestop, GME, hedge funds, john maynard keynes, macy's, NASDAQ, NYSE, options, reddit, retail apocalypse, retail investors, ridiculous, S&P500, short, short interest, short squeeze, short-selling, speculation, steam, stock market, stock trading, stonks, Tesla

GameStop stock blew up. Should you care? No, not really. But you shouldn’t buy it.

Finance Book Reviews Urban Planning Finance

Book Review: The Firm – The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business (2014)

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments american express, anil kumar, AT&T, bain, Business School, citibank, consulting, duff mcdonald, finance, harvard business school, IBM, intel, james mckinsey, james oscar mckinsey, management consulting, mckinsey, mckinsey & company, merrill lynch, mitt romney, pete buttigieg, raj rajaratnam, rajat gupta, south bend

MCKINSEY. EVERY B-SCHOOL BRO KNOWS THE NAME. Many more Americans learned the name after facing the presidential prospects of a

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Why Is Detroit Giving Industrial Slumlords Like Moroun A Free Pass?

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ambassador bridge, BSEED, building department, building inspections, building inspector, corktown, dan gilbert, Detroit, detroit international bridge company, DIBC, economic development, enforcement, gordie howe, gordie howe international bridge, green dot stables, logistics, manuel moroun, matty moroun, Mike Ilitch, moroun, northern border transit, rosa parks blvd., southwest detroit, trucking, UST properties, UST Properties of Michigan, ust properties of michigan llc, Vacancy, warren, west side industrial

The owners of the Ambassador Bridge, their trucking empire, and a plethora of shell corporations own many acres of prime real estate close to Detroit’s downtown. Why have they avoided regulatory scrutiny?

Urban Planning

New Year, New Goals

January 8, 2021January 11, 2021 Luo Yang 0 Comments getting stuff done, new year's 2020, new year's 2021, new year's resolutions, productivity, project management, work, work-from-home

Readers, I hope this post finds you well! Typically, the start of a new year brings renewed enthusiasm for planning

Business & Economics Book Reviews Urban Planning Data & Analytics

Book Review: Leading with AI and Analytics

January 5, 2021January 2, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments AI, AI & analytics, AIA, analytics, artificial intelligence, b-school, business analytics, business intelligence, Business School, Data Science, Data Science IQ, data scientist, decision tree, decision trees, DSIQ, eric anderson, florian zettelmeyer, gradient boosting, kellogg, kellogg school, kellogg school of management, machine learning, management theory, MBA, multiple regression, neural network, northwestern, northwestern university, OLAP, OLTP, predictive analytics, qualitative, quantitative, R, random forest, regression, SQL, statistics, XGBoost, zettelmeyer

Nat reviews a new book, Leading with AI and Analytics: Build Your Data Science IQ to Drive Business Value, by Eric Anderson and Florian Zettelmeyer of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School.

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