Jen van der Meer
@jenvandermeer
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#BusinessModels at Reason Street| Associate Professor @ParsonsDesign
New York, NY
Joined March 2008
at least this place is helpful to confirm other NYC folks felt an earthquake
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Indeed, @pranavmulgund! After these times of financial speculation and populism (supported by the victims of inequality) there COULD come a golden age. BUT, only if leaders such as FDR make massive changes for a win-win game between business and society🙏
AI panic is everywhere. 72% of US workers fear AI reducing jobs. The narrative is fear-heavy and media-friendly, but the real answer is simpler. @CarlotaPrzPerez already gave us the blueprint for how technological revolutions reshape the economy. 🧵
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It's amazing how eerily similar today is to 2007. This blog in the @nytimes of an interview by @BradStone with me then, describes how I saw the situation then. The crash was brewing then. Not far from how I see it now.
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I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly. A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here. U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced
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Crying and throwing up after learning that New York City already manages 6 public markets/grocers
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Organizing for an affordable NYC
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this is what mamdani's free bus proposal will result in
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NYC’s transit system is one of the most incredible logistical marvels in the world, and moves millions of people daily.
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The last of the floating jails, the strange painful histories of NYC, this barge returning to the state that made it.
Just a few months after announcing the removal of the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, we’ve selected Louisiana Scrap Metal Recycling to dismantle the barge, making way for the future Hunts Point Marine Terminal! For more, visit: https://t.co/Jjv9xY3W4x
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Pretty striking that we’re “giving up” hundreds of thousands of parking spaces to make room for larger and more-dangerous cars while refusing to do a fraction of that to improve safety for kids and families. (9.3% of NYC’s 3 million parking spaces is more than a quarter million
Can't find parking? Blame larger cars. "Expanding the average car length from 5 meters (16.4 feet) to 5.5 meters (18 feet) decreases street parking spots by 9.3%... The growing share of larger vehicles has caused many on-street parking spots to effectively disappear."
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Casually noting I benefitted from G&T programs and in support of removing them everyone should read The Drama of the Gifted Child.
Here comes one of the worst types of local news cycles, people casually mentioning if they were in a gifted & talented program as a kid
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NYC #civictech could decry Eric Adams' last-hour renewal of the opaque Big Apple Connect program, in a giveaway to Altice USA and Spectrum. Story by Zachary Groz for @nysfocus, who is staying on the #govtech beat in NYC and nine-figure spending favors: https://t.co/2QOmaG4YRh
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The renewal locks New York City into well over $100 million in costs for the controversial program.
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More Dutch urban infrastructure spreading to NYC.
Some news: This winter the @ooneepod team is launching NYC's first Dutch-Style🚲 parking hub in Brooklyn's Sunset Park. The facility will provide free parking for 100+ bikes + scooters, and will include safe charging, and appt based repairs + service. More deets in 🧵👇🏾
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We demand another dramatic reading: Wealthy New York Developers Meet to Plot Mamdani’s Defeat https://t.co/qThtrdeFWi via @NYTimes
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Some of New York’s biggest business leaders convened on Tuesday morning for an urgent gathering in support of former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, saying the “time to act is now.”
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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Corruption may still plague NYC, but Tammany Hall is now a Petco
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NYers: Why do we think this is so? Is there less pushback for RTO mandates here? Is it the finance/consulting/media culture of 80-100 hours weeks and up or out hierarchies? Is it the fine amenities that NYC offices have to offer?
Really striking to what degree NY has become an outlier in recovering from the remote-work shift, especially given that it is the city that was hit first and hardest by the pandemic that prompted the shift.
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