Miami is more like Dubai than New York. It’s about building the nicest and tallest, it’s about the luxury, the beach life, the new money, hype, momentum, tech scene, climate-impact and now the floods.
While we’re on a road trip to Canada, to meet some goods of the AI scene, not the Geoffrey Hinton-type but more grassroots, and also taking time off enjoying Canadian “spring” landscape, there is a flood going on in our home, Miami, that from what I’ve heard it’s very bad. It happened last year and some are complaining why the cities didn’t anticipate this, and some say, the whole summer would be like this. And the other summers.
Some say too many builders has caused the land to slide down, and some insurance companies have bailed out. We have a waterfront house, and for us not only the insurance and taxes has doubled, but we haven’t seen anything meaningful from the local government to fix things; I’m sure this would be a different case in Dubai.
Our mayor is busy taking pictures all day with old folks, innovating is below sea level zero.
We need innovation, we need startups come fix this and the local government also be executives rather than celebrities taking selfies. We need these executives run things efficiently and embrace innovation. For the sake of all of us. Let’s make it clear I’m talking about Miami Beach.
We live in a paradise; we respect the land, the water, the sun. We need to preserve this from sinking.
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