Before starting to write at Mirror, I published at Medium, mostly about transportation and my previous company, Scoot. Some highlights are here:
There Are 300 Million Electric Bikes and only 10 Million Electric Cars (2021) - Because we are building the wrong kind of electric car.
How to Cut Ride Hailing Use by 50% (2019) - Proof that shared, electric motorscooters are the perfect substitute for traffic-inducing and dangerous ride hailing services.
San Francisco’s Huge Parking Opportunity (2019 with Laurence Wilse-Samson) - We show how much space SF wastes on car parking and what you could do with it.
Micromobility Doesn’t Have to be Disposable (2019) - After adding locks to our stand-on scooters, they stop getting stolen and trashed, a revelation to the industry.
New Delhi Will Leapfrog New York in Mobility (2018) - After visiting Delhi for Scoot, realizing that the future of e-mobility is in the global south.
What we learned from our first month of operating Scoot Kicks (2018) - After winning the San Francisco scooter permit, we reveal just how many scooters are getting stolen.
Shared Electric Vehicles are the Subways of the 21st Century (2018) - On Network Age transportation systems vs. Industrial Revolution transportation systems.
Shared Scooters, From the People Who Invented Shared Scooters (2018) - Scoot introduces stand-on e-scooters to our popular e-motorscooter and e-bike fleets.
The Snuggle (2017) - A riff on The Hard Thing About Hard Things after the birth of my son.
In the Cities of the Future, the People Will Drive Themselves (2016) - Why self-driving cars won’t take over cities. Not a popular opinion in Silicon Valley, but not yet wrong.
Why Apple Won’t Make a Car (2015) - Why whatever Apple is working on won’t be a car in the conventional sense. Still have my fingers crossed.
Conspicuous, but not Consuming (2009, with Stephen Linaweaver and Brad Bate) - We wonder if consumption of virtual goods could offset material consumption. Pre-NFTs :).