To be fair, even American urbanists confuse themselves on this point, because they see high prices and assume that means unlimited demand for cities. But high prices reflect the combination of supply and demand, not just demand, which does outpace supply, just not infinitely.

“What is the meaning of life” is a very funny question to a parent.

Having children is a lifestyle choice as much as respecting the law is a lifestyle choice. Society can survive a few not doing it; and it's also technically possible to all agree to make it completely optional, but then civilization won't survive long.

People aren’t really aware of this, and I wasn’t either until recently, but if you read about the debates they were having in the 1960s and 70s they look exactly like the debates we have today about gender and race. I mean, pretty much exactly. It really does look to me like…

He’s being cheeky, but this is exactly the point I was making earlier. The people who have come out ahead in this economy are the job switchers, who psychologically perceive the switching to have been a micro effort on their part that is unrelated to the macro conditions. This…

Sometimes I tweet something and then think, “what am I doing? I don’t even want to talk about this” and then just delete it immediately

This is not unrelated to this thing I keep saying about how people have a sense that everything is so big and so permanent, that institutions just kind of exist and always have existed and always will exist and there’s nothing you can do about it and there’s no point in doing…

Turns out they’re doing fine. Who could have possibly predicted this (except all normal people everywhere).