would 10/10 read a biography of this Italian Jewish army officer who served under Napoleon and then became a hanger on in various courts of the Punjab

extremely smart of USFS to issue a pre-storm baldy closure, IMO www.latimes.com/california/s...

I know everybody is on bluesky during the super bowl so bumping this job posting! consider applying

We're looking for a director for the BRAND NEW integrated payment center of excellence here at CalSTA to lead payments work for agencies around the state going forward. consider applying, job closes on 2/25. calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

downtown watch www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

10/10 chart, Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the future will be stranger than you could possible imagine, Bruin Bowl Malatang edition

rabo de toro / potatoes murcia / cabbage salad (not pictured)

looks like Oceanwide is going to exit bankruptcy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

wild how different this is compared to my 2016 visit to shenzhen, which was... very chaotic (in a good way) sammatey.substack.com/p/the-solarp...

ISO: Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore recs for food, architecture, buildings, and parks to visit

really love this point in Tim Wu’s age of extraction and hope we understand two things as policymakers 1) cities greatest strength is the ability to change 2) can online platforms do the same?

chanterelle/ morel / shiitake risotto

touched grass

let us have faith that right makes might

coq au vin with pig trotter, homemade bacon, schmaltz toast, mash and chicory salad

US Canadian relations at a nadir right now but also we're about to jointly send a US-Canadian mission of 4 astronauts on a slingshot around the moon which will be farther from earth than literally any human has gone before which is uh, cool en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis...

two wild milestones: 1) The PRD Metro area added an _entire Chicago L_ worth of Metro lines in 2025 alone 2) India will surpass the US in terms of mileage of metro lines note both of these items basically took 10-15 years to take place www.thetransportpolitic.com/2026/01/20/t...

red beans and rice with homemade tasso and andouille

fun history of the Beijing subway (and also a good realization that without the Great Recession it probably won’t have become the worlds largest today) substack.com/home/post/p-...

fascinating obituary of Singapore’s foremost urban planner www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ar...

California January backyard >>> everywhere else

celebrating this new era of Chinese-Canadian relations by reading about Dorise Nielsen, the first communist elected to the Canadian parliament who later spent the 60s and 70s living in the PRC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorise_...

my kingdom for the Honda Super-N EV

some personal news* * (“new” bike day)

ISO: a good book on the independence of India and partition

going to really commit to this this year but here's 2026 book thread 1) Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu / James Robinson. Given my pro pro-democratic institutions bias, this was good. the title's a bit misleading but a very compelling book and avoid a lot of traps that similar books fall into

*click* www.dezeen.com/2026/01/14/k...

1922 Utopian Socialist farmer or current day man about to serve you a matcha latte

My grandfather lived in a world without Korean Fried Chicken, I eat it frequently. modernity rocks

who says you can't grow coffee in CA sprudge.com/a-california...

I feel like the infrastructure changes that Mexico is undertaking under AMLO and now Sheinbaum are super underreported on, and this piece did a great job on showing how the political economy of mexico is changing and building lasting support for her www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...

let us have faith that right makes might

dallas truly the american city most incapable of seeing beauty archinect.com/news/article...

today’s haul

as of last night i’ve now gone a whole calendar year without consuming any nicotine. considering quitting Posting for 2026, but that might be harder. i only picked up smoking as an adult, but i was Born To Post.

New Year: New Job? I'm hiring two Transit Data Scientists to work on SB125 and other transit programs with me at CalSTA calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

closing it out with pumpernickel, smoked herring, dill dressing Lamb leg with trotters and cabbage, demi-glace, roubechon mash, tandoori carrots with vadovan butter, and homegrown raddicio / romaine

Southern California: a great state

The LA river living up to the name

a little early christmas present for all, which is the team at HSR has officially launched the RFQ for a co-development agreement hsr.ca.gov/2025/12/23/n...

the "public architecture" genre is really making a comeback in the 2020s www.dezeen.com/2025/12/23/h...

downtown obscura for Christmas

smoked sun dried tomato ndjuja hopefully I don’t kill anyone

I'm looking to fill two short-term positions (they are funded to the end of June 2026. Web Governance and Data Administrators. We are a Salesforce-platform team, located in Los Angeles. All the details are on my LinkedIn Page: www.linkedin.com/in/ginnybrid...

really wild how tightly intertwined shenzhen metro and Vanke (chinas formerly biggest property developer) are www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

CPUC looking for good energy data planners in LA, SAC, and SF calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

another exciting launch of contactless payment w/ Cal- ITP, this time in Ventura www.kclu.org/2025-12-10/m...

extremely good and cool job with @airresources.bsky.social running the Transportation division, come work on lowering the #1 source of GHGs in the state calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

Who amongst us didn’t pull out American fact finder to settle a bar bet