Luke Szumski

New Dad. Twisted Grounds, Schenk's. Previously product @gopuff & @Angi. UofR Football

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

everyone who bought those knockoff Lebron jerseys on the boardwalk knew the future

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

Trying to schedule a calcium scan after reading about how important it is.

Primary care doctor (Jefferson Health System) first available annual physical is Sept 24, saying I need to meet them before potentially referring me.

Call around to other options like Cardiology Consultants of Philly, say I need to be referred to them from a doc as well.

Am I crazy that this should not be the case? I just want to pay for a scan. (And should I buy a mobile CAC heart scanner to drive around Philly to fix it)

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

We bought a mobile CAC heart scanner in Silicon Valley - we offer to companies at fair value that subsidizes us to provide to low income patients for free. 11 of 95 people scanned at company yesterday needed follow up / intervention. Get your scan today! 🤍❤️ @American_Heart

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

@MarcusMilione If Amazon's strategy is similar to AWS, then won't they commoditize compute just like cloud? Commodity boom-bust cycle that stops them ever getting back to old profits

+ new entrants Meta and SpaceX in it for the long haul compressing margin further.

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

Ever since I downloaded BoxdSeats, it’s been reassuring knowing that on my deathbed I’ll get to look back and think:

“Wow we really had it all, didn’t we?”

*not a paid ad

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

@valiovalentino The AI applications they are pushing for their apartments and homes products will not meaningfully improve margin. CoStar customers will balk at prices increases when renewal comes up?

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

Just finished No Country for Old Men. Awesome, couldn’t recommend it enough. I had only read The Road of his before this (and probably while it took me so long to try another). Big mistake. Added Blood Meridian to the queue.

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

@JohnnyWalsh__ Why do you think that is? No shortage of families in Spring Garden.

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

@harrisonfinberg How much rental inventory exists by you that checks the boxes for a family? Looking by me (Fairmount) there’s very little that is 3b / 2bath

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

We need to make this Fairmount Ave. Will be Spring Garden St in ~5 years

[City of Philadelphia @PhiladelphiaGov]

The Market Street Old City Improvement Project has been completed between 2nd and 6th!

🌳Street trees and planters
🚲Raised bike lanes
🚌Bus bump-outs
🚦Traffic signals, and more.

We hope residents, businesses, and visitors in Old City enjoy this new streetscape!

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

@JohnnyWalsh__ Make it permanent

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Every time I fly to New York, I'm struck by how many trees there are in the densely-populated areas around the city. (Coming from the West Coast, one arrives over the Garden State, and the suitability of the sobriquet is quite apparent from the air.) It feels like this degree of tree cover in highly populated areas is atypical (the environs of places like Paris, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Tokyo, etc., look very different), so I asked the LLM to investigate.

It found GHSL 2020 population and ESA WorldCover 2021 10m land-cover data, and concluded that New York is in fact quite unusual.

As far as I can tell, it's because of some combination of:

* A very favorable climate. (Trees grow quickly without irrigation.)
* Marginal farmland. (Readily outcompeted by the Midwest in the 19th century.)
* Together yielding reforestation before the advent of suburbs.
* And a preference for development patterns that include trees. (Japan's climate is very hospitable, but one sees far fewer trees in the populated areas around the major cities -- forest and habitation are more disjoint.)

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

@rfkenmore Big fan on Thomas Bates. Affordable and made in America

https://t.co/oAMn0xogMX

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

@moseskagan @chrisderose The wolf hall trilogy was awesome (started off of your rec a couple years ago). I could not get into sea of poppies. Starting "A Spy Among Friends" rn

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

@2112Power @E_Bruxxx What’s prevented the market from solving this? I get a ton of lines of credit offers / finance reach outs (for a small retail business)

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

Praying this gets across the finish line. Has been a pit for years now, a weird psychological but also actual physical barrier to Francisville growing

[Jack O’Brien @JackPhillyRE]

110 units and a new design are proposed for the Francisville Triangle. After being vacant for decades a multi-family building is going to CDR for the south portion of the property, which is seeing 29 rowhomes on the northern portion. Thoughts on the plans?

Scoop below/in the bio

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

Philly City Council being limited in its ability to rent-seek from Waymo is a good thing

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This is now the 8th Philly themed children’s book we have received (not complaining)

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

Underrated aspect of Philly’s lack of a startup scene. A company going public provides the seed for the early employees to go start the next batch of startups. Seeing the extreme example with people talking about SpaceX going public soon. When was our last >$5 billion area IPO?

[Luke Szumski @LukeSzumski]

Jaylen Brown every time he drives to the basket

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@alanthefisher @nextphlmayor What was the alternative? Honest question cause I’m not too in the weeds on this. It seems that they don’t control taxation, enrollment down 10% last 10 years, and city council won’t do them any favors with funding.