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10 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
1. 100%. And not just these places. Becoming a tech hub is at least a generational process. Think of Boston's transformation. It began right WW2 with MIT and ARD. @margaretomara lays out the process for Silicon Valley...
2. Pittsburgh. It's efforts began way before I moved there in 1987 ... And now 40 years later we see "the effect."
3. The Research Triangle, Seattle ... I could go on. And you can't just wish and hope to become a tech hub. You need massive investment & massive freedom at a major research university or universities ...
4. But most of all as @margaretomara notes it takes TIME. A lot of time. And a lot of persistence. History is littered with boosterish claims of becoming the "Next Silicon Valley." It takes time, persistence and the right kind of investment.

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10 Dec
1. Austin is hot. I know it because @iamstevenpedigo moved there and he's barometer. But Austin is anything but a new emerging tech hub. It has been a leading tech hub since I started doing research on tech hubs & innovation clusters in the late 1980s. Some data points.
2. When I started writing what became Rise of the Creative Class in the late 1990s. Get what place was a top destination for @CarnegieMellon comp sci & engineering grads - Austin. I features prominently in that book published in 2002, nearly two decades ago.
3. Check out these data from the book, as published in an excerpt in @monthly. Austin is up there with San Francisco on virtually every tech hub, innovation & creative class metric (wish I could find a better version of that article & its tables): thefreelibrary.com/The+rise+of+th…
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7 Dec
1. A quick little riff on remote work in light of all the news speculation about finance/ VC moving to Miami etc etc etc.
2. First, I think that the BIG geographic impact of the pandemic will be more on the geography of where we work than where we live.
3. I think remote work has several different implications ...
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1. This is what keeps me up a night. But we have a chance to heal.
2. Biden is a decent man. And he will strive to unite us.
3. Some on the left may not like this but. he needs to appoint moderate Republicans to his cabinet. And he needs to build a vital center.
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1. Here's quick summary of the main takeaways from our brand new analysis with @CharlottadcM on the Geography of COVID-19 in Sweden: swopec.hhs.se/cesisp/abs/ces…
2. @CharlottadcM was able to get very fine-grained and unique data on the geographic spread & variation of COVID-19 across Swedish cities (municipalities) and neighborhoods (34 of them in Sweden's 3 largest cities).
3. Sweden makes a useful case study because it did not implement a lockdown or have regional variations in public health policies that might impact the geographic spread of COVID-19 in some locations versus others.
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1. Very important new paper via @MarkMuro1 on the connection between density & COVID-19.
cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/…
2. The paper by an LSE team looks at the outbreak & spread of COVID-19 across 1197 US counties which comprise 82% of US counties.
3. It uses several measures of density, including simple density and population-weighted density, and adds an instrumental variable based on geological conditions.
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1. On these end of city takes that seem to endlessly proliferate: several things strike me. I’ll just state them out here.
2. The first is how they always center around just to cities New York City and San Francisco, even as places like LA or Miami or Houston have been very hard hit by COVID-19.
3. The second is how particularly American they are. There is virtually no conversation or sense that Toronto is at dearth’s door.
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