Interesting Links for 25-04-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Diversity appears to have almost no effect on team performance. (Which means there's no reason not to be diverse, of course)

(tags:diversity performance work psychology )

2. Edinburgh Bus Station's owner could throw them out.

(tags:edinburgh buses transport )

3. "My Dinner With Billionaire Marc Andreessen" (an interesting peek behind the curtain

(tags:inequality wealth society )

4. The cycling revolution in Paris continues: Bicycle use now exceeds car use

(tags:Paris bicycles transport )

Comments

[redbird]

4. What startled me is that most trips in Paris are made, not by bike, automobile, or mass transit, but on foot. According to this article, in the past few years the number of trips by bicycle has increased, and the number of trips by car decreased by about the same amount, but those two modes add up to about 16% of travel in the city.

[andrewducker]

Which would indicate that Paris is set up so that people can get to most of the things they need without going very far. (Which is my experience from my last trip there)

[anef]

15 minute city?

[hairyears]

Very much so, within the Périphérique, with modern housing developments designed to replicate the social nucleation of 'Old Paris' squares and random corners that become miniature town and village centres.

[andrewducker]

Jane, who lived there for a year, says that you would definitely have a bakery and a greengrocer within that walking time. And almost certainly a corner shop equivalent.

She lived incredibly centrally, and says that even so on top of that there was a decent supermarket within a 25 minute walk.