Seán Keyes

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[Seán Keyes @Keyes]

Not good

[Seán Keyes @Keyes]

Funny how these architectural passion projects end up demolished within a generation…

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Such a shame Herman Hertzberger’s SoZa offices are set to be demolished in The Hague.

Only 36 years old, it would be an enormous waste of materials, labour and embodied carbon.

Also… just take a look at that plan!

[Harry Rushworth @Hrushworth]

Support this in principle but:

- The cost per mile is obscene and should not be funded as planned (totals £1.6bn+)
- There should be two stations in Thamesmead (eg replacing the head house)
- Proposals should be strategic - where’s the later onward extension

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

I've written our finance special report this year (one of the few bylined pieces in The Economist!) It's on what I see as the decaying status of US Treasuries, the world's only real safe asset, and the worrying long-term problems for global finance as that role is eroded.

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

This plan is incompatible with freedom- a global class of planners telling us how long to work, how much we can grow, what we can eat. It is also completely wrong. All advances for climate (including the huge drop in battery and solar and wind costs) have come (and will come) from more innovation, more competition, firms that grow and invent and innovate and produce energy solutions that replace fossil fuels. If you enforce degrowth in the West you will kill for ever the climate agenda.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

It may not look like your city, but Houston’s inner loop is a properly dense urban core.

The interesting part is that unlike any “real city” in the US, all of the new density has been built in the last 20 years and is actually affordable.

[Seán Keyes @Keyes]

Amazing

[Stuart Buck @stuartbuck1]

@TECleveland @cremieuxrecueil Despite some bogus grants, a lot of government is like this cartoon. I bet this "small team" would find a line item for "screwworm sterilization" and delete it, not knowing that they just devastated American farming: https://t.co/OAnAkxDSEK

[Seán Keyes @Keyes]

Any objections?

[Trevor Acorn 🔰🌹🇺🇸🌎 @trevoracorn]

Whatever we want to call this style, it’s a style we’re going to see a lot of in the coming decade.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx

[Seán Keyes @Keyes]

@Simon__Grimm @WorksInProgMag Great signing!

[Rob Cross @RobCross247]

A big improvement on South Anne Street in Dublin City since 2020. Well done @DubCityCouncil
#Dublin

[Seán Keyes @Keyes]

@mcmnorris That is untrue. My own work is focused on building state capacity for manage complex projects. Sam’s worth is about state capacity for fostering innovation. Seán’s other work on housing is about aligning the interests of local stakeholders and those who need housing.

[Seán Keyes @Keyes]

Too much chaos in a city plan — bad, messy, inefficient. Too much order — cold, inert, lifeless. There is a sweet spot.

[Dume @gietzschean]

Proper urban planning is an underrated form of beauty.

[Seán Keyes @Keyes]

@Aidan_Regan Hey Aidan — I agree there’s a lotttt going on in the relevant time period in all these countries. But I think the increased by complexity of regs is bad news for new housing of all times, whether market or socially provided

[Seán Keyes @Keyes]

3 years ago, I wrote about Nvidia's then-astonishing $1trn valuation. I made a model that justified that valuation. Three years later, it's worth $5.4trn. I had assumed 49% annual growth in sales; in fact they grew 210% https://t.co/ERe1F1tmyO

[Jorge Galindo @JorgeGalindo]

The (extremely clear and well articulated) whole report by @F_McCullough is 100% worth your time - and thanks to @TeresaRaigada for flagging it!

https://t.co/vAuBHvQR1v

[Seán Keyes @Keyes]

A fine meeting this morning with The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. The Swedes are interested in Irelands outward-facing growth model. And Ireland has much to learn from Europe’s most entrepreneurial country. @SODaunfeldt @svenaringsliv

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

Remarkable statement by the person most responsible for closing all nuclear plants. German greens should really face a reckoning for their grand anti-nuclear crusade, which had two main achievements: citizens struggle with high energy costs and the planet is dirtier and warmer.

[Seán Keyes @Keyes]

I'm in the IT today talking about the nuclear ban.

https://t.co/Syp8KCqyJE

[Seán Keyes @Keyes]

"Europeans are the finest builders of cities in the world. No other place comes close. European cities combine efficiency and liveability with atmosphere and beauty......."

https://t.co/CNI3HK6KD5

[Raphael Barberi📷 @itsrapha83]

How to build a city

San Sebastián edition