Todd W. Schneider recently mined data from the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission to create a chart summarizing yellow taxi, Uber, and Lyft usage. The data only runs up until January 2016, but here’s what he found: “…yellow taxis provided 60,000 fewer trips… Read More
https://500px.com/embed.js My friend Evgeny published a great blog post today called, On Car Ownership And The Future Of Transportation. And in it he made the argument that instead of buying a car and an expensive downtown Toronto parking spot (average price: $40,000 – 60,000), most of… Read More
Airbnb is a platform that connects people who have extra space with people who need space. It’s a peer-to-peer hospitality company. Yeloha, which is a startup I just discovered today, is a peer-to-peer solar company based out of Boston. In the same vein as Airbnb,… Read More
Holding Pattern by Sean Arbuthnot on 500px https://500px.com/embed.js This afternoon I saw on Twitter that Toronto Police are now starting to crackdown on UberX drivers in the city. The investigation is called “Project Snowball” and they have already charged at least 11 people. The fines are… Read More
Welcome to 2015! To start off the year, I thought I would talk about something pretty geeky, but very forward looking: Bitcoin. I wrote about Bitcoin just over a year ago when I was first starting to wrap my head around it, but a lot… Read More
