🤖 Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists - How Paris surpassed Amsterdam and Copenhagen as the most child-friendly city for cycling, thanks to bold infrastructure and speed-control policies.

the heart of Paris’s transformation is its expanding network of protected bike lanes. These lanes are physically separated from cars—a critical feature for safety, especially for children. Paris now has protected cycling routes stretching across nearly half (48%) of its road network.

“There is so much road in American roads. They widen and narrow like rivers, now six lanes, now twelve, now, but surely not?, fourteen, with various slip roads, merging lanes, separate roads running parallel behind a wall. Road, road, road, stretching out ahead of you towards the mountains.” Henry Oliver

I’d prefer we spread the excellent everywhere instead of just centering it in one place.

“Creating a real-time digital representation of an enterprise build on harmonized data & a system of intelligence (SoI) that is governed and autodidactic will create software-like marginal economics for companies that apply this to their business.” // Contender for Best Enterprise Cant of FY2016.

Satisfying on the greasy poll

This week on Software Defined Interviews, talk with Russell Davies about…all sorts of things, very content-y, advertising, being interesting. Just, you know, lots of delightful “and stuff” that results from someone who “mucks about on the internet.” (I need to get better at writing podcast descriptions.) It was fun! Here is the traditional podcast version which you can listen to. below: You should subscribe to the podcast, you know.

Does anyone read predictions pieces? In late 2025, I predict that only people who read prediction pieces are people who write prediction pieces.