I have been trying to find a single thread that captures my excitement about @helium and haven’t managed so I figured I’d write it myself.

Here goes:
1/ today, if you want to connect a device to the internet wirelessly you have a few limited choices: cellular, wifi etc. 2) But cellular is expensive ($40/yr) and a big battery hog, and wifi requires configuration and is short distance.

It means that a lot of things that might be connected - bike trackers, pet collars, local weather sensors - end up ‘dumb’.

1) I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday about @numerai and why I'm excited for what @richardcraib & team are building. I haven't seen my thinking explained well elsewhere, especially Erasure, so thought that I'd do a basic tweet storm explaining why I think it's important. 2) At it's core, Erasure is a way to crowdsource information in a way that fixes a market failure. If I email you out of the blue telling you that I've discovered unicorns in Peru and have a strategy for capitalizing on Peruvian unicorn tourism, you will probably thing I'm crazy.

Just did an interview with the @DomPost re: the need for *higher* resident parking costs at @WgtnCC. The key points were: resident parking is some of the cheapest real estate in the city. It costs $1.20 a week to rent 10sm2, or about 1/20 of what it'd cost for a private park. /1 Our low cost of resident parking is a mispricing of our roads. I'm all for people having cars if they want them - especially families - but it has to be balanced with the changing nature of transport. For the folks who want to keep using it, cool, but you should pay for it. /2

Why should you be paying attention to #micromobility? Because it represents a fundamental rethink of transport as we've known it.

I presented at the @motnz yesterday about this very topic. It tied a lot of what we've discussed on the podcast, so thought I'd share here. 1/n I start with asking when the first year canned dog meat was produced. When do you think it was? More importantly, what caused it?

I get asked a lot about the waste from #micromobility - e-scooters, and those big piles of Chinese shared bikes. They definitely wear out faster and have short lifecycles. Lime's average 45-60 days. Look at all that waste!! Here's why that's the wrong way think about it. The average Chinese bikeshare bike weighed 15-20kgs. There were 25 million of them deployed over the last few years and are mostly scrapped by now. But here's the thing. In aggregate, those 25m were made from steel that weighed about half a million tons (25m*20kg=500k tons).

1/ I finished a work trip in China and stuck around to travel for the last few weeks. Was blown away by the Chinese bikesharing systems. I used them everywhere. A few observations (for everyone, but especially for @michalnaka ;)): 2/ Bikehare is massive in China. Most people I know who haven’t been to China have dismissed it and joke about the graveyards. We ignore at our peril. There are so many bikes - the graveyard pics were a tiny % of the ~23m that have been deployed. They're on every corner.