Ross Arnott

Dad. Sports. Tech. Dunfermline Athletic Fan. Co-Founder Movement Recognition and Coaching. @asensei #ConnectedCoaching #rowing

[Ross Arnott @rossarnott]

@notanilp Great idea, and awesome to see it originating from Scotland!

[Ross Arnott @rossarnott]

@iannuttall Tried using your tool on a shopify site and it isn’t picking up any of our /a/blog/ pages.

They’re in a separate sitemap in robots.txt, I’ve verified ianbot gets 200 responses for both sitemap+articles.

Run: 1e5d9af2904fc3402c6d326f7528ac5f

Any idea what I’m missing?

[Ross Arnott @rossarnott]

@dallaglio8 Sincere condolences.

[Ross Arnott @rossarnott]

Coming to America! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Ross Arnott @rossarnott]

@thepatwalls Aàà64 I

[Rianne Downey @riannedowney_]

Happy New Year! Caledonia, you’re everything I’ve ever had.

It was an honour to bring in the bells and sing one of the most beautiful love letters to Scotland on the telly last night ♥️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

The SNP loves per capita statistics. @alexmassie helpfully does the maths for them (on wait times of 2+ years in the NHS, Scotland vs England).

[VisitScotland @VisitScotland]

You're on a boat tour in #Scotland and you see THIS 😍💙 What a treat!

📍 Islay, @wildaboutargyll 🎥 IG/islay_sea_adventures

[Team GB @TeamGB]

BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPIONS!! 🤩

Tom Dean, James Guy, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott defend their title!! 🥇

#Paris2024

[Team GB @TeamGB]

*Still* not done yet.

#Paris2024

[Ross Arnott @rossarnott]

@davidflatman I don't send my kids to private school and I think taxing is a daft policy. Will result in more pressure and less budget (per pupil) for state schools and probably quite a few other unintended issues. Allow people to choose how their children are educated and don't tax education.

[Genesis Scottish Open @ScottishOpen]

🏆 ROBERT MACINTYRE WINS THE GENESIS SCOTTISH OPEN! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Michael McEwan @MMcEwanSport]

❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Greatest Scottish Sports Person Of All Time.

[Ross Arnott @rossarnott]

@AdamCMarsh @John_Stepek 💯 agree with @AdamCMarsh regulation for such a wide range of conditions would be a huge challenge. I expect we'll see more constrained use of AI in more niche applications first where it's easier to validate.
Then widespread adoption would also be a major challenge.

[Ross Arnott @rossarnott]

@LiamKillingstad @jbonhotal Good plan, makes sense. I'm a bit older but hoping there's a bit of life left in the legs yet! So will check out all options.

[Ross Arnott @rossarnott]

@LiamKillingstad @jbonhotal Yes, full rupture unfortunately. 😓

[Ross Arnott @rossarnott]

@LiamKillingstad @jbonhotal Non-surgical is the default here (UK) and the advice was to go that way. Got a consultation soon to confirm. Really interested in what can help accelerate the healing.

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

What every voter should know about housing policy

1. Rents reflect the balance of supply of apartments and demand for those apartments in a given area. That’s it; there’s no magic. If you want lower rents, you can hope for a recession that destroys jobs and, therefore, demand. Or you can add supply.

2. There is no amount of money that any big city government could feasibly spend that would add materially to supply. This is because, depending on the location, new apartments cost $250,000-1,000,000 to develop… building even a few hundred of those starts to stress any city budget, and many big cities need tens or hundreds of thousands.

3. On the other hand, investors (including pension funds and endowments, insurance companies, rich families, etc.) can collectively **easily** provide enough capital to build as much housing as we need **so long as they are confident they can get a reasonable return**.

To get those investors to fund the creation of the housing our society so desperately needs, we must do two things:

1. Dramatically reduce the time & complexity associated with securing governmental permission to develop housing.

This means reviewing and simplifying the overlapping regulations that constrain housing production: zoning codes, building codes, parking, ADA, etc. But it also means changing the cultures within the relevant governmental agencies from “default no” to “how can we help you?”.

2. Provide certainty around on-going regulation of apartment operations.

The way investors get a return from building rentals is as follows: They hire managers to lease the apartments, collect the rents, pay operating expenses and any mortgage payments, and then send the investors the cashflow that remains.

But governments all over the country have been restricting the manner in which apartment buildings can be operated in all kinds of ways.

For example: Cities have been making it harder to screen tenants, while also making it much harder to evict tenants who don’t pay. You can see why both of those measures are politically popular. After all, who doesn’t want people to get second chances? And who wants anyone to get evicted? But, as a manager, the combination of those two regulations makes it much harder to predict, with any certainty, that the rent will get paid… and that makes it very difficult to get investors to provide capital to create more housing.

Another example: Rent control. Again, I understand why renters love rent control and why politicians want to give it to them. But, if, as has been the case in NY, LA and San Francisco, city governments hold annual rent increases below the rate of growth in the operating expenses of the buildings, the cashflow payable to the investors shrinks… making them much less likely to invest capital in building more apartments.

In conclusion: For ~every other good or service in the economy, we allow the market to function, and the result is that we have a surplus of choice at all price points (think of food or clothes or cars), which is spectacular for the consumer. If we want a surplus of choice at all price points in housing, we need to get comfortable with the idea of allowing the market to provide it.

And that means allowing investors to build rental apartments *and* allowing them to operate those apartments in a manner consistent with making a reasonable profit.

[Ross Arnott @rossarnott]

@AmandaMGoetz This is the way!