The second goal Aston Villa scored against Tottenham is a textbook case of actions that don't appear in the statistics when analysing a game. Boubacar Kamara receives the ball on the edge of the Tottenham box, but it's the run of Marco Asensio that drags Yves Bissouma away and opens the space for Kamara to score. It's an intelligent piece of footballing action, but it won't show up on Asensio's stats at the end of the game. That action was a good summary of Asensio's influence on the game: su...

In the previous Philosophy Monday, I introduced knowledge as an objective basis for values. Today I want to expand on what I mean by knowledge. I had previously in this series written a post about knowledge that in retrospect I realize I should have called "knowing" instead (if I eventually pull these posts together into a book, I will fix that). That post was much more about what it means to know something. In the context of values though I am much more concerned with knowledge as a set exte...

Rather than defining ourselves by what we’re against, what if we focused on what truly brings us together? At ALANA, our journey has always been about celebrating the values that connect us as a community. That’s why we created our free membership NFT, which encapsulates ALANA’s “10 Principles of a Good Community.” The inspiration for these principles came during a thoughtful conversation with Dani, a fellow DAO member, where we reflected on how Dieter Rams’ “10 Principles of Good Design” dis...

Who wouldn’t want to sound fluent in a second or third language? Like many learners, I picked up a lot of slang from dramas, but I also learned plenty from my Japanese friends (tomodachi). Of course, I sometimes use it in the wrong context—haha! Being married into a Japanese family has also helped since I get to hear a lot of their casual speech (tameguchi). However, one funny thing is that I sometimes end up sounding boyish with the slang I use. When I get it wrong, people around me laugh, m...

Welcome to 29 Seconds of Farcaster, a quick recap of what you missed on Farcaster over the weekend, delivered to your inbox, every Monday. Brought to you in collaboration between @bradq and the GM Farcaster Network. What did you miss this weekend?29 Seconds of Farcaster ... what did you miss this weekend? no /gmfarcaster today, /castout show today & normal show tomorrow @moe dropped a great mini app to view Starter Packs feeds in app @v cast a primer on Rewards, most notably it scores your to...

Stop building product companies, start building culture companies Brenda Hashtag wanted me to ask if your prices are based on your talents or their budget? Opening a club called nunyabusiness I didn’t like Sinners as much as everyone else Whole whole lot of new music coming out reminds me that I need to find a way for my music to enter the conversation

Every once in awhile, New York City reminds us why it's so powerful to smash ourselves together with so many people, and what happens when we all get outside and intersect

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The City of Toronto requires amenity spaces to be provided in new housing developments of a certain size. Here, for example, is the relevant excerpt from the recommended zoning by-law amendment that is expected to allow small-scale apartments along all major streets:The triggers are 20 and 30 dwelling units, which represents a housing scale that Toronto doesn't build a lot of. I mean there's a reason it's called the missing middle. That is, of course, the point of the major streets study. It'...