Dan S. Johnson
@DanJohnsonCRE
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Office broker @ JLL. I help companies find cool offices in SF. San Francisco citizen. My Twitter is where local tech/RE/politics meet for beers after work.
San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2013
San Francisco has all the ingredients. - Talent. - Capital. - Culture of creation and risk taking. - Tons to do. - Supportive echosystem of innovation. - Diversity. - Natural beauty. All we are missing is a coherent local government. Once we get our shit together, we will
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California has increased spending by 75% in six years. Are your bills 75% cheaper? Are our schools 75% better? No. Because the problem isn’t how much we spend — it’s how we spend it. And I’ll only spend taxpayer dollars on policies that actually make people’s lives better.
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Solid work
Military experts later confirmed that Chuck Norris and Walter Payton together on the same boat was temporarily the world’s fourth-strongest navy.
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Oregon may ban unfunded affordable housing mandates — because data proves they suppress homebuilding. When cities require below-market units without offsetting costs, developers build fewer homes, pushing up prices for everyone. California still uses the same
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Oregon’s New Path to Inclusionary Housing: Fully Funded and Flexible
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Databricks has doubled down on San Francisco, with the tech company expanding its footprint at 1 Sansome St. by 90,000 square feet as a resurgent office market shows its strongest momentum in years.
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Databricks has doubled down on San Francisco, with the tech company expanding its footprint at 1 Sansome St. by 90,000 square feet as a resurgent office market shows its strongest momentum in years.
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This is almost as bad as the law requiring office phone booths to be sprinklered. Installing sprinklers in these booths costs more than the booths themselves…. I have a solution! 💡 If there is a fire, maybe exit the phone booths 🤷♂️ I’m sure the sprinkler companies and the
Wow am very surprised to hear this Next you’ll tell me the pipefitters union was involved somehow in pushing for this ordinance that involves fitting lots of pipes
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The navy already solved: - small reactors - long core life - reliable operation - mass production For some reason we've been leaving this technology under water for over 70 years
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The tech Barrons of today need to learn a lesson from business titans of America’s past. Look at Carnegie: 🏗️ Andrew Carnegie (Carnegie Steel) Context: Carnegie famously wrote The Gospel of Wealth, arguing that the rich have a moral duty to redistribute their fortunes. Key
AI is deeply unpopular. According to Pew, sadly only 17% of Americans think AI will have a positive impact. In China, 83% believe AI will be positive. A token tax & political backlash is coming unless the narrative changes. 🇺🇸👀🧐
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It's actually never been cheaper to rent in Austin, TX. The Rent/Income ratio across the metro has dropped to 18.3% - the lowest on record (going back at least 20 years). Landlords are aggressively cutting rents at a time when incomes in Austin keep rising. The typical rent is
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Just out: California's wealth tax proposal has a NEGATIVE $25B net present value. We project only ~$40B collected (vs. $100B claimed), with ~30% of the tax base already gone and lost income taxes wiping out gains. w/ Ben Jaros, @gregkkearney, John Doran & Matheus Cosso:
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“BART threatens to close 10 stations unless voters approve new taxes while janitors earn $271,000 hiding in closets, 57 employees double their salaries through overtime, and the inspector general gets obstructed for investigating”
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I grew up taking BART. As a working-class kid taking BART from my home in Fremont to U.C. Berkeley for my first computer science classes, or to San Francisco to work at my first coding job, I think...
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If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the education job is already done. That's my honest assessment after working in education for over thirty years. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes it is. But if you can't read the
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When a patient has a fever, you don’t ban the use of thermometers What is LA Mayor Karen Bass doing here?
LA City Charter Commission moves to abolish City Controller's office amid MASSIVE fraud scandals. The move would eliminate the City watchdog and appoint a CFO overseen by Mayor Karen Bass. Seems a wee-bit sketchy... @CaliforniaGlobe link 👇
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s climate policies are delivering higher energy costs, fewer jobs, and even more CO2 emissions. https://t.co/6CqsXR27EM
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As refineries close, California is importing more foreign oil.
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Blue cities are out of control, promising more, spending more, delivering less and pushing off fiscal problems to some future day. Democrats in city halls should stop governing as if the goal is to announce new entitlements, and instead make government work. My take:
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Boston has the schools. SF has the companies. 21 of the Forbes AI 50 founders went to school in Boston—then left for San Francisco. If SF doesn’t learn from this cautionary tale, Austin and Miami will. https://t.co/pmYxLaYXWy
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Harvard and MIT trained 21 of the top 50 AI founders. Every one of them flew west to build in SF.
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Really cool Jahvid Best was a stud at Cal and had a short and electric NFL career cut short by injuries. Now he’s keeping San Francisco safe. Don’t run from him - he ran 4.35 40 yard dash😆
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mayor matt mahan running for governor. among democrats, this is the state's only chance at someone sane. let's pray for a final two where neither man wants communism.
A couple weeks ago, I came home and my wife, Silvia, said something I almost couldn’t believe. She looked at me and she said, “I think our state needs you.” Because she believed I could help our kids. Help San José. And help California. And if you know anything about Silvia —
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Matt Mahan for governor
I’m proud to endorse Matt Mahan for governor of California — and I’ll work hard to help him win. Let’s go, @MattMahanSJ!
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For certain GOAT level athletes I believe they should play for the league minimum so that the team can acquire more star player to maximize chances of winning. More rings equal bigger legacy, more prime time exposure, and a more valuable brand. Shohei Ohtani and Tom Brady have
NBA superstar Stephen Curry is aiming to sign a 10-year, $890 million deal with Nike one of the largest athlete endorsement contracts in history. The deal includes signature shoes, apparel, and global marketing rights, cementing Curry as both a basketball legend and a cultural
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