Malcolm Gladwell

Everything was better.

It's harder now for us.

Yeah, it's really hard mathematically to support that argument writ large for human society.

I'm just curious.

Tell me about housing.

What are you obsessed with right now?

What do you think we're doing wrong?

Yeah, the NIMBYism is pretty wild.

Did you ever read Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell?

you know, conservative economist, but he does have a section on zoning and housing that I think is so prescient for today, but talks a lot about, he was specifically talking about California's like environmental building and zoning rules.

I used to live there.

And it is pretty, it's pretty wild how we want to close the door behind us as opposed to like throw down a bridge.

And it must just happen.

It must be human nature.

Like I don't propose that I'm better than anybody else after I've made a little bit of money or whatever.

So we have to fight that somehow.

Because sure, it's not as aesthetically pretty to have a 20-home townhome next to you.

Yeah, it's true.

I was in DC and all the buildings are stunning in the downtown area.

And you wonder why all of a sudden everything is sleeker and modern and glass and no detail to it as we get older.