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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ In Seattle I stayed with my friend [[Chris]] and it was again awesome. We watche
On Saturday, which was really my only free day as on Sunday I had to travel to San Francisco (Sunnyvale), we walked through Seattle Downtown, or rather through Capitol Hill. We means [[Chris]], [[Olof]] and later [[Patrick]]. We went to a very nice bookstore that [[Angelina]] spotted remotely and I had somehow missed on all my previous visits. From there we walked up to [[Volunteer Park]], which I thought has a lovely name. We intended to see the graves of [[Bruce Lee]] and [[Brandon Lee]] but got there too late (meaning after 16!) and the cemetery was somehow completely closed; back in Switzerland they don't really close so that took me by surprise. I suggested climbing the fence but people were not into breaking the law (fair; that was probably the right call), so in the end we just walked around and enjoyed spring and then we went to a bar called [[The Lookout]] where we met with other friends. I met Chris's friend [[Nick]] and his partner, who I thought were cool.
On Sunday on the way to the airport I had an interesting conversation with the [[Lyft]] driver. That happened several times this trip; this kind of spontaneous connection is a seemingly good side effect of the lack of public transport in many US locations, although I'd wish it wasn't so asymmetrical -- meaning mediated by a user/provider relationship, in particular one where I know the person driving me is not well compensated. It turns out that Lyft takes a way larger slice of the pie than I thought -- more than 40%, sometimes more than 50% -- and on top of that the drivers *can't easily tell* how much Lyft charged for a trip, only what they receive. IMHO this makes Lyft ripe for disruption by an ethical competitor (hopefully a distributed cooperative of drivers?)
On Sunday on the way to the airport I had an interesting conversation with the [[Lyft]] driver. That happened several times this trip; this kind of spontaneous connection is a seemingly good side effect of the lack of public transport in many US locations, although I'd wish it wasn't so asymmetrical -- meaning mediated by a user/provider relationship, in particular one where I know the person driving me is not well compensated. It turns out that Lyft takes a way larger slice of the pie than I thought -- more than 40%, sometimes more than 50% -- and on top of that the drivers *can't easily tell* how much Lyft charged for a trip, only what they receive. IMHO this makes Lyft ripe for disruption by an ethical competitor (hopefully a distributed cooperative of drivers, or a federation of local cooperatives? or at least a less greedy corporation), but in practice of course I don't know enough about the domain to be able to spot the difficulties beyond those typical of a [[coordination problem]].
### [[San Francisco]]