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2026 1

  1. There is something for everyone to do

2024 3

  1. De-congestion pricing: Why New York failed where London succeeded
  2. 'Adulting': My story for The Moth in London
  3. Posts are no longer paywalled

2023 48

  1. Time for something new
  2. Revel without a cause
  3. Bird's new CEO is under no illusions
  4. The war on war on cars
  5. Lime says it was profitable in the first half of 2023 🛴 🚲 📈
  6. One weird trick to get a free ride in London
  7. Surge pricing has lost all meaning
  8. Lyft needs more than good results to catch Uber
  9. Who will buy Citi Bike from Lyft?
  10. Good news July: Bike-share highs, fare cuts in Denver, swimming in the Seine
  11. Blame it on the Ulez
  12. A short history of tactical urbanism
  13. Traffic cones vs. self-driving cars
  14. Good news omnibus: June 2023
  15. Urban dwellers are sick of cars
  16. You can still call a cab
  17. How to find all your Uber ratings
  18. Five stars or bust
  19. One big question for micromobility
  20. Other stuff: Green light 🚦 for congestion pricing, Uber flights, Airbnb's "physical social network"
  21. What was "shared" in the sharing economy?
  22. Lyft's rough ride
  23. Uber's third way
  24. My year as a Substack Pro
  25. Gig workers regain some dignity in Washington State
  26. Paris's vote to ban e-scooters is a referendum on Silicon Valley
  27. Other stuff: Lyft founders step down, sick leave for gig workers, 'Train Daddy' returns
  28. Uber Eats cleans virtual house
  29. Other stuff: Silicon Valley Bank, Sam Bankman-Fried co's DoorDash bill
  30. Citymapper appreciation thread 📍🌎 🚃
  31. Uber wins bigly in court
  32. Via acquires Citymapper 🚐 📍 🗺️ 💫
  33. Other stuff: Pay raise for Uber drivers and garbage cities
  34. I loved Monzo, until I got robbed in Berlin
  35. Other stuff: Lime is profitable, Lyft is a mess, NYC seeks next nightlife mayor
  36. Uber Reserve is better for you, and for Uber's bottom line
  37. Other stuff: Uber earns, Lyft falters, mixtape romance
  38. Uber's VAT bill finally comes due
  39. Catch twenty two-factor
  40. Other stuff: Tier layoffs, gig gambling, Elon’s inner circle
  41. An asshole stole my backpack in Berlin
  42. Uber made surge pricing so mainstream, even the Fed is talking about it
  43. Other stuff: Paris to vote on scooter ban, the FTC strikes back, Cardi B rails on $6 lettuce
  44. Which of these e-scooters is parked correctly?
  45. Why London doesn't have trains on Christmas
  46. Other stuff: Uber drivers strike, Bird completes merger with Bird, inflation threatens the baguette 🥖
  47. What's in store for 2023?
  48. Watch: What is Micromobility's Path to Profit?

2022 87

  1. The good news omnibus edition
  2. ⚡️Breaking⚡️: Bird Canada to bail out Bird Global in reverse-takeover
  3. Pat Garofalo on secret dealmaking and corporate subsidies
  4. Subscriber thread: What is Micromobility's Path to Profit?
  5. Angry Bird
  6. DoorDash, Instacart lose vote to deliver alcohol in Colorado
  7. How the gig economy fared at the ballot box
  8. Now reading: Road to Nowhere
  9. DoorDash's bright spot is Dashers
  10. Tech sector layoffs come for DoorDash
  11. Walt Hickey on telling stories with data and life after Twitter
  12. Another instant delivery crash
  13. Can the sharing economy survive this?
  14. Bird brain
  15. Garbage scooters
  16. The big favor that inflation did for Uber
  17. Former top Uber lobbyist says drivers should be presumed employees
  18. Instant delivery curse
  19. Bird's Europe flu, e-scooter rebates, axes of evil
  20. The gig economy is a bust in the public markets
  21. "Be a bike angel, not a bike devil": an interview with Citi Bike's Laura Fox
  22. Early Bird investors are underwater
  23. Bird founder Travis VanderZanden is selling his Miami mansion
  24. Bird's management team flies the coop
  25. Open thread: American transit nightmares
  26. American transit nightmare
  27. Garbage cities + SF meetup this eve
  28. Open thread: What do you think of congestion pricing?
  29. NYC congestion pricing needs its Jane Jacobs
  30. Travis Kalanick is back, trusts no one
  31. Eliot Brown on Adam Neumann and the Cult of We
  32. Bike-pooling and self-cleaning car floors
  33. Bird made better scooters. Now it needs people to actually ride them.
  34. Uber celebrates flight attendant who delivers for Eats on layovers
  35. Julia Ticona on the dignity of the successful digital hustle
  36. Marc Andreessen goes with the Flow
  37. Open thread 📚: Left to Our Own Devices by Julia Ticona
  38. James Parrott tells the inside story of the first-ever pay floor for Uber drivers
  39. The gig economy is the tip of the iceberg
  40. Marc Andreessen is the ultimate NIMBY
  41. Uber enters its Amazon era
  42. Uber is cash flow positive and Bolt… bolts
  43. The food delivery fee compromise
  44. San Francisco's $20,000 trash cans
  45. Uber's Josh Gold on congestion pricing and how to fix New York City's garbage problem
  46. Denver is having a micromobility moment
  47. The perks of cancelling Amazon Prime
  48. The Uber files are old news
  49. Marshall Steinbaum on the path forward in antitrust
  50. Are food delivery apps raising prices in restaurants?
  51. Are e-cargo bikes the future of last-mile delivery?
  52. The antitrust case against Uber is here
  53. Stop congratulating companies for making abortion a corporate 'perk'
  54. "The future of transport looks very unequal"
  55. UberPool is back in U.S. cities
  56. How to make scooters profitable
  57. What went wrong with Jokr
  58. Lyft resets its driverless ambitions
  59. Stephanie Hare on the 'wicked problem' of technology ethics
  60. Oliver Bruce on all things micromobility
  61. Amsterdam battles the dark store
  62. Instant delivery crash
  63. No more free rides
  64. Getaround plans a SPAC
  65. Does food delivery compete with dining out?
  66. Open thread: Can Uber be profitable?
  67. Uber wants to show you the money
  68. Sunday longreads
  69. Lyft has drivers, Uber has earners
  70. The weird economics of London cycle parking
  71. Housekeeping, again
  72. Inside Helbiz's 🔥 hell 🔥 biz
  73. Everyone is some kind of profitable
  74. What ethnography can teach the gig economy
  75. Why Just Eat soured on Grubhub
  76. What to do about accidental surge?
  77. The antitrust case against the gig economy
  78. Is it time to buy an e-scooter?
  79. Via goes for the middle mile
  80. Some housekeeping
  81. Paint your own crosswalk
  82. Define your terms
  83. Uber drivers get a pay floor in Washington state
  84. Open thread: What would you like to see in Oversharing?
  85. The taxis strike back
  86. Urban adventures
  87. Welcome back to Oversharing

2020 14

  1. Food fight
  2. Grubhub was a rational player in an irrational market
  3. Covid-19 is helping cities kill the car
  4. The month the entire world signed up for delivery
  5. What Uber should do now
  6. Gig work in the time of coronavirus
  7. The Lord & Taylor building was WeWork's skyscraper
  8. What even is a tech company anymore
  9. The real unicorn is a profitable ride-hail company
  10. SoftBank's kids aren't playing nice
  11. WeWork kicks the keg
  12. Uber tests letting drivers set their own prices
  13. SoftBank's just not that into you
  14. The Travis years

2019 40

  1. Where do scooters go for the winter?
  2. Breaking up is hard to do
  3. How to steal a billion
  4. We need more money, asap
  5. Blame it on the IPO
  6. Woe is We
  7. We need a break
  8. Softbank loses its appetite for a WeWork IPO
  9. The end of an era for the gig economy
  10. The pound of flesh was Anthony Levandowski's
  11. WeWork is all about Adam
  12. WeWork's IPO filing is out
  13. Scooters aren't that great for the environment after all
  14. DoorDash hits a tipping point
  15. Food is the new content
  16. Bird begs to differ
  17. Where would WeWork be without Softbank?
  18. Tip your delivery worker in cash
  19. Grubhub is sick of hearing about DoorDash
  20. California could crush the gig economy
  21. Oversharing is moving to London!
  22. No one is innocent in New York's taxi market
  23. Uber isn't in Kansas anymore
  24. Uber drivers strike ahead of Uber IPO
  25. Some Uber drivers still don't know what they actually earn driving for Uber
  26. Everything I learned reading Uber’s massive IPO filing
  27. Bird raises prices to trim scooter losses
  28. Uber alums are calling the shots in Silicon Valley
  29. Drivers protest Uber and Lyft ahead of their IPOs
  30. Ride-hail startup Juno seeks a buyer
  31. Bird wants to franchise scooters
  32. Lyft warns it may never make any money
  33. Shared scooters don't last long
  34. What Uber didn't share in its latest quarterly report
  35. DoorDash is the dark horse in the food delivery race
  36. Lyft sues to avoid paying drivers a living wage
  37. The breakup letter Uber investors wrote to Travis Kalanick
  38. Federal workers are 'making ends meet' on Uber
  39. Make congestion pricing great again
  40. WeWork will unleash every human’s superpowers

2018 46

  1. Why would a company do a direct listing?
  2. Everyone is getting ready for the prom
  3. Uber drivers will get minimum wage protection for the very first time
  4. Uber hit the brakes on Uber-for-rental cars
  5. Oversharing is off for Thanksgiving!
  6. The techpocalypse is coming to New York City
  7. WeWork took away the punch bowl
  8. Scooter unit economics are worse than they seemed
  9. Saudi money has flooded Silicon Valley
  10. Ok Silicon Valley, you can save the world now
  11. Waymo's self-driving car operator fell asleep at the wheel
  12. Airbnb wants hosts to get equity
  13. Economists figured out the best way for Uber to say sorry
  14. Please ride your toy scooters on the sidewalk
  15. "Move fast and break things" is broken
  16. SoftBank bets everyone hates rental cars
  17. The best cap on Uber would be to fix the subway
  18. Is Airbnb censoring negative reviews?
  19. Lyft will pay you to ditch your personal car
  20. Are Americans too lazy for bike-sharing?
  21. WeWork took meat off the menu
  22. Scooters might actually have good unit economics
  23. A simple, brilliant formula for paying Uber drivers more
  24. Uber got its license back in London
  25. Bird is the fastest startup ever to become a unicorn
  26. Everything we thought we knew about the gig economy is wrong
  27. San Francisco got rid of the scooters
  28. Facebook wants in on the gig economy
  29. Uber forgot to tell Pittsburgh it wanted to get back together
  30. Uber ends forced arbitration for sexual harassment, Cereal saves Airbnb
  31. "Earnings excluding gluten" and other suggested startup accounting schemes
  32. The tech bros are older than you thought
  33. The tenth circle of hell might be scooters
  34. Everyone is glad not to be Mark Zuckerberg
  35. Good luck leaving your Uber driver less than five stars
  36. What happened with that crazy MIT study on Uber driver earnings
  37. Uber and Lyft worsen congestion, Instacart's tipping bug, "mass destruction" of bike-share in France
  38. Waymo gets ride-hailing permit, WeWork's beer taps dry up, H-E-B buys Favor
  39. The Uber-Waymo case is ancient history, Instacart raises $200 million, Airbnb touts Experiences
  40. What Travis Kalanick said at the Uber-Waymo trial
  41. Travis Kalanick wanted a "pound of flesh" when Uber bought Otto
  42. Uber sells Xchange, Lyft employees spied on riders, sexual harassment in the gig economy
  43. SoftBank builds a ride-hailing empire, Uber eats Ando, Silicon Valley's secret weapon
  44. Oversharing is taking a sick day!
  45. Travis Kalanick tried to sell half his Uber shares, Handy pivots to retailers, "Shortcut Your Startup"
  46. SoftBank's uber-popular Uber bid, movie theater slammed for surge pricing, restaurant pods

2017 50

  1. Hubble sold contacts with fake prescriptions, Target buys Shipt, Airbnb is profitable in 2017
  2. Former Uber employees have gone into debt to hang onto shares they still can't sell
  3. Uber operated covert intelligence unit, Lyft cuts losses, China's bike-share graveyards
  4. Uber paid off hackers, WeWork buys Meetup, Expensify's SmartScan "garbage"
  5. Uber's big Volvo purchase, Bill Gurley chides unruly startups, Airbnb's "surprising" slowdown
  6. Uber approves SoftBank deal, fake GPS app inflates Uber rider fares, thermonuclear grocery bombs
  7. Oversharing is off this week
  8. Paul Manafort's swanky Airbnb, econ-themed Halloween costumes, Managed by Q unit is profitable
  9. Uber drivers' credit scores, Blue Apron layoffs, the "freezing robot" problem
  10. The real cost of Uber's bad reputation, Airbnb's hipster black market, "I love Big Macs"
  11. Play the "Uber Game," Uber sets IPO deadline, bike-share bikes in telephone poles
  12. Why Ikea bought TaskRabbit, Uber to vote on board reforms, Ford CEO wouldn’t get in a driverless car
  13. Uber loses license in London, Albertsons acquires Plated, Walmart wants a key to your fridge
  14. Uber sues for ad fraud, Alphabet eyes investment in Lyft, Airbnb your home mortgage
  15. FBI probes Uber for “Hell” program, shared hurricane relief, top-secret Waymo earrings
  16. Uber employees “embarrassed” by their board, Handy fights the NLRB, layoffs at Postmates
  17. Uber’s surprise CEO pick, SoftBank’s billion-dollar investments, secret self-driving car tests
  18. Let’s hang out in San Francisco!
  19. Benchmark sues Travis Kalanick, Airbnb bans neo-Nazis, Uber warns drivers about long trips
  20. Travis Kalanick’s deposition, Uber’s Garrett Camp goes rogue, man evades reporter while dressed as car seat
  21. Steve Jobs’ing it at Uber, Lyft’s Taco Mode, Airbnb and the NAACP
  22. SoftBank approaches Uber, hacking street signs, Bozoma Saint John’s Instagram
  23. Jeff Bezos crushes Blue Apron, hotels spy on Airbnb, self-driving car vomit
  24. Rampant umbrella theft, Uber to depose Larry Page, Instacart’s grocery algorithms
  25. Sexual harassment ignites Silicon Valley, Lyft invents a bus, Blue Apron’s tepid IPO
  26. Inside Uber’s unsettling alliance with some of New York’s shadiest car dealers
  27. Travis Kalanick takes a break from Uber and Amazon declares grocery war
  28. Uber’s day of reckoning is here
  29. Uber “minions,” Lyft partners with nuTonomy, and Postmates misleads users (again!)
  30. Uber shortchanged drivers on wages, Sprig shuts down, and WeWork starts a gym
  31. Uber price discrimination, Uber for X is over, and Sweden lists itself on Airbnb
  32. Pilfered Waymo files, gross Postmates ads, and YayYo’s sketchy IPO
  33. Maple crumbles, Waymo needs “smoking gun” on Uber, and WeWork’s overtime hustle
  34. Juno betrays its drivers, Luxe gives up on-demand parking, and I go on a unicorn adventure
  35. Waymo hits Uber where it hurts, Instacart talks cash-flow, and Airbnb dorm rooms
  36. Uber scales back UberRush, regulation trips up Airbnb, and inside Blue Apron’s meal-kit machine
  37. Uber’s fuzzy pricing math, racist host on Airbnb, and sharing economy dos and don’ts
  38. Dog-sharing booms, Munchery gets desperate, and Uber’s Jedi mind tricks
  39. A self-driving Uber crashes, Postmates cuts staff, and China’s Mobike pays its users to take rides
  40. Jeff Jones departure stuns Uber, Waymo’s case against Uber, and Airbnb eyes the skies
  41. Travis apologizes, Uber #greyballs, and absurd receipts from Postmates and Instacart
  42. Nobody likes Uber anymore
  43. Sexual harassment at Uber, iffy labor practices at Instacart, and Airbnb’s profit aspirations
  44. Valentine’s day promos, Uber’s deal with Zipcar, and on-demand funding deflates
  45. Pittsburgh sours on Uber, Airbnb’s Super Bowl politics, and the price of benefits for gig workers
  46. Tech revolts against Trump, #deleteUber misses the mark, and Postmates bets big on booze
  47. What Uber’s drivers really make (hint: nothing like what Uber says)
  48. Lyft financials leak, another food delivery startup implodes, and the tiny driverless shuttle in Las Vegas
  49. Uber eyes upstate New York, Paris blames population drop on Airbnb, and why Washio folded
  50. Airbnb on Mars, the end of Uber subsidies, meal kit consolidation, and other stuff to watch in 2017

2016 40

  1. What the hell was Uber thinking with self-driving cars in San Francisco?
  2. Mutual funds sell unicorn shares, Airbnb adds policy “tool chest,” and the longest Uber ride
  3. Uber ends fare cuts in New York, Airbnb raises the white flag, and a leaked Postmates pitch deck
  4. Uber drivers get rules for unionizing, Airbnb racks up fines, and the dark side of self-driving beers
  5. Airbnb debuts Trips, Karhoo implodes spectacularly, and restaurant margins really suck
  6. Infighting at UberEats, Airbnb dodges discrimination, and GOOD LUCK AMERICA
  7. Uber promises flying cars, Postmates closes its funding round, and Airbnb negotiates with New York City
  8. New York evicts Airbnb, Bill Gurley slams food delivery startups, and self-driving Budweisers
  9. Instacart cedes to shoppers, Uber cozies up to Pittsburgh’s mayor, and “real pressure” from the gig economy
  10. Postmates stumbles on funding, Philly briefly bans Uber, and Cheng Wei as Uber slayer
  11. A self-driving Uber went the wrong way on a one-way street in Pittsburgh
  12. Oversharing is taking a break this week!
  13. Obama unveils self-driving car rules, Airbnb makes nice with landlords, and Lyft as the “ultimate subscription”
  14. Behind the scenes at Uber’s self-driving media day in Pittsburgh
  15. Washio folds, Uber pushes into public transit, and Airbnb’s transparency report
  16. GM puts a price on Lyft, Airbnb is bad news for mortgages, and “overly earnest” startup plans
  17. Uber’s self-driving cars are here, Lyft denies being for sale, and Postmates explains its “crystal clear” pricing
  18. Postmates misleads its customers on pricing, Lyft rebuffs GM, and “magical trips” on Airbnb
  19. Walmart buys Jet, Lyft’s investor letter “leaks,” and how to short Uber
  20. Uber relinquishes China, Didi betrays Lyft, and Airbnb’s swing-state millennials
  21. WeWork evicts a startup, Uber's "arguably criminal" conduct, and Elon Musk's master plan
  22. Real talk at WeWork, equity for handymen, and the insane Hyperloop One lawsuit
  23. Illegal eats, super-cheap Ubers, and Airbnb’s listings purge
  24. Airbnb fights with cities and Uber and Lyft settle the VanderZanden affair
  25. Airbnb's dirty secret, Lyft's Qatalyst, and startup chiefs of staff
  26. New York wages war on Airbnb and a tech unicorn prepares to fly
  27. The limits of Uber's network effects and a "Sharing Economy" book
  28. Discrimination escalates on Airbnb and Lyft misreports its ride data
  29. Toyota invests, Uber rethinks surge, the other beasts of Silicon Valley
  30. Airbnb is sued for discrimination and TaskRabbit builds a tiny house
  31. What we talk about when we talk about "profitable"
  32. Gleaming chrome pandas and thinking ‘glocal’
  33. Uber tips, gas delivery startups, and why Tuesday didn't work
  34. Dirty term sheets and Uber settlement
  35. Startup haircuts and manic pixie dream rides
  36. It happened in an Uber
  37. Uber price-fixing and five-star seniors
  38. Aggregated eats and gig economy myths
  39. Food delivery stumbles and capitalistic kibbutzim
  40. Welcome and thanks for joining!