Does the article ever say what the setting we should change are, or is just saying that Yale has a leadership platform that it exercised for musicians during the pandemic?
I'm rehearing with a group of highly amateur musicians, and getting some easily configurable improvement on this would be something we would definitely do, but I missed what the changed settings should be. Thx
Seems like an important topic to discuss.
Serious question, how do should I understand the concluding sentence/word,
"But walk through parts of San Francisco today, and you get a different sense altogether: not an uncanny effectiveness, but a panicked swirl of homeless capital."
What is meant by "homeless capital"? does it mean SF is the capital city for homeless like Washington DC, or does capital go to opposite of venture capital, like in banking/finance/Wall St?
I take it to mean capital (in the banking/finance sense). So "homeless capital" might suggest that there is more invesment money available than there are good places to invest it.
Both; there is so much venture capital sloshing about that is in search of a "home", an investment with a positive return. This results in all sorts of weird things getting funded - but only weird things. It's much better to lose money on Juicero than it is to lose money on opening a restaurant. And of course it also alludes to the homeless humans sleeping outside the empty buildings.
The last 2 paragraphs mention venture capital and VC dollars. I think the "homeless capital" refers to funds that are not being invested and have not found a "home" in new long-term businesses.
Possibly the phrase 'homeless capital' could mean human capital that is experiencing homelessness? The way the clause is constructed is pretty unclear. It could just mean there are a lot of homeless people, and is failing at being poetic.
The author personifies capital earlier in the piece when he writes “noncommittal capitalism.” The way he structures the last sentence does seem to point towards the idea that the capital in SF is homeless.
". I felt like I was hearing from Pelé that the key to becoming a great soccer player is wearing shoes."
It was just a movie, but in a movie about Pele, one of the memorable scenes was he was playing with the neighborhood poor kids, against the rich kids in a tournament. His team didn't have shoes or uniforms. And they didn't want to be made fun of . They rather crookedly got shoes, but weren't use to them, and they didn't fit.
By half time, they were losing badly. Pele took off his shoes, scored amazing goals and the team came back to within one goal.
Kinda random, but what should I believe about shoes being obvious.
GAC currently has a nice display booth at the NADA show, National Automobile Dealers at Moscone Center in San Francisco, showing about 6 cars. Which is probably some sort of a confirmation of what the article says about them coming to US dealers soon.
