1/ At we love infrastructure & the people who, generation after generation, roll up their sleeves to build & maintain it.
Today I’m thrilled to launch the first podcast from , Beneath the Surface, all about (what else?) infrastructure.
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2/ For the past few months we’ve been poking around the globe at various projects — and talking to the people who’ve built them, from a new city in Zambia, to houses in a legal grey area in South Tottenham, to , well, everywhere, and beyond.
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3/ Each episode sets out to ask — though not always answer — a specific question: How did Tokyo build the world’s most efficient transit system? Were COVID-era shipping delays a cause or symptom of fragile supply chains? What might an energy abundant future actually look like?
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4/ The first episode is particularly personal for me. It’s all about charter cities — and whether or not it’s possible and desirable to craft cities from “scratch."
It features what I believe to be the most promising project of its kind: .
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5/ Thank you to the wonderful team:
& the people whom we interviewed:
🎧: Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the
Spotify:
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6/ Though at times this series will be critical — I love technology but do not believe it to be above critique — I ultimately, to quote my friend , try to take the side of people who build.
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7/ I hope you’ll join us as we tackle these questions, and that we all start to ask better questions about how to build the infrastructure—and ultimately, the _future_ we want. 🏗️🌆🚆⛵️🚗🚋
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Is there an RSS feed for those of us not using spotify or apple?