Matt Staub

From last night's bike ride, a couple of guys who are definitely being tread on. The guy being tread on parked in the federal building employee parking lot, and the guy whose house didn't burn down next to the one that did.

I'm not an AI hater like many are, but I feel strongly that it only belongs at the bookends of knowledge work. At the beginning, to build a template and cure the blank page. At the end, to find errors, check your work, and surface blind spots. But never give away the middle. That's your value.

I've now tracked bike rides on over 25% of the streets in the massive, sprawling KCMO city limits. 811 miles worth of streets. Takeaway: this city is way too big, and I haven't even scratched the surface in the northland. The next 25% are going to be way less interesting.

My hope for the AI coding era is that the markets I've supported the most that weren't competitive enough to be lucrative for big companies, like public transportation and non-profits, will be freed from the absolutely terrible software they've been forced to live with for years.

Sometimes I take my Nebraska roots for granted.

I know discussing finances is gauche in American culture (arguably another way the working class gets marginalized), but I'm curious about benchmarking as I get older. If you have a retirement plan, are you planning to spend more, less, or about the same in retirement as you do today?

Reminds me of when I tried a little rhetorical trick with my dad, who was regaling me of our ancestry. I said that it felt like we're not that far removed from being immigrants ourselves, and that was pretty cool. It did not land well.

If you can close it for 2 years you don't need it in the first place 🙄 #kcmo www.kshb.com/news/local-n...

Non-confrontational, no-nonsense, reflective of values and priorities of the community, and totally doable. KC when? @mayorq.bsky.social

What does it say about our neighborhoods and connections that we have events where people drive to a parking lot and walk from car to car to trick or treat?

As far as I can see on my scan, this is the only soccer pitch in Temwa Chawinga's village. The 18 yard box is an estimate.

Right now society at large is paying most of the bill for people who drive giant pick-up trucks and SUVs, my humble proposal is that we should stop doing that and ask them to pay it themselves.

An amazing gig at @kclibrary.bsky.social for an experienced marketing pro who wants to work with a team across a variety of channels. Starts at $93K info.npconnect.org/jobs/info/ma...

What kind of society values the "freedom" for a few people to modify vehicles to make them unnecessarily loud over the freedom of an entire community to enjoy a lovely fall evening with their windows open?

I feel like Elon was wildly unpopular that last time he was in government. The GOP is just on a constant self-own cycle.

I will never understand the army of commenters in every post about new housing in the urban core simultaneously complaining about "too many apartments" and that rents are too high. 🤯

"You pay every time you board a bus, and that makes you think about whether you want to ride it. If you paid every time you used a parking space, you'd also think about whether you want to drive. Free parking doesn’t mean free markets; it often means freeloading." —the late Donald Shoup

Not a fan of the adulty archetypes of my youth now being old and dying people. Remember, he was a princi-PAL, not a princi-PULL.

The idea that this was going to be an entertainment district set in an old industrial area with repurposed buildings was what made it exciting and truly evocative of the history of the site. Now it's just gonna be more empty land.

Man, even when I agree with the reasons, internet pile-ons are just gross and disproportionate. I get that people want to feel morally superior, but they sure do it in the most inhumane ways possible.

Maybe if the Longs don't understand what they've done to culture of their club, they can surely understand what they've done to the value of their asset.

Hot take: @kcstreetcar.org is too KC nice, waits too often for passengers not quite at the stop, and dwells way too long to let people meander off the car. Passengers are trained to be slow. Even if you got left at the platform a few times, speeding up dwell times would benefit you and everyone.

The Chancellor has clearly never been to the Canadian suburbs. That's All-American!

The intense irony when people advocate for heaps of free parking and fight bike lanes in an appeal to the everyperson. Another way cars ruin cities: they drain them of wealth.

Amazing that well-resourced parents will attend to every detail to give their kid the slightest advantage, but will point to "personal responsibility" and "moral character" to explain the struggles of those who didn't have the same resources or circumstances growing up.

If you're breathlessly worried about street parking, you might want to do something about these selfish folks who turn 4 spots into 2.

Here's another great chapter in @kclibrary.bsky.social's Making a Great City Series. Going deep on fundamentals urbanists understand: great cities are engines of prosperity, and making them great takes intention and effort. kclibrary.org/events/place...

Selfishly, the worst part of the way the @kansascitycurrent.bsky.social has conducted itself is that it has completely robbed me of the joy of attending matches. I just kinda wanna stay away from those vibes right now. And if it had gone down before season ticket renewal...

One of the most insidious examples of late stage capitalism is the sharing of Amazon Wishlists to support charity. Yes, let us hold together our society by funneling money to the placeless retailer whose business model requires taking over our public streets.

There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.

You know that thing when you're typing in a URL and you accidentally hit enter one character before autocomplete finishes it for you? This is a rough AI summary for Mr. Sheeran.

Automatic fine when?

We'll spend $300M to deck over a block of freeway because the noise is so bad. And it is! But the noise is bad everywhere. We're not courageous enough to enforce noise ordinances and outlaw exhaust mods? Everyone would benefit.

Serious question for businesses that whine to the media anytime our totally standard, best practice parking policy is actually enforced: why are you located in the most walkable neighborhoods in the city if parking is so important to you? There are endless options in our metro for unlimited parking.