LEGAL DISCLAIMER
This episode in part contains commentary only on the first and fourth amendments of the US constitution. It is not legal advice. The guest is not an attorney. Do not use this episode to make decisions about what is right for you regarding these constitutional amendments.
Jordan Regenie is the founder and principal consultant at Peace, Love, Freedom LLC. This is a strategy consultancy for "scaling the acquisition, processing, and production of high-quality geospatial data products". I came across Jordan on LinkedIn through an article he wrote about working on Bing Maps. I immediately knew I had to request an episode to continue the story Stephanie May started telling about how the tech companies all made their own base maps over the past decade:
He has a fantastic story to tell about scaling and managing a team that produced 70 3D cities and Streetside imagery for 40 cities:
We also leveraged his law background to answer some questions a new migrant to the US might have about the first and fourth amendments. This was prompted by another one of his articles, on fourth amendment implications for geospatial. Overall an incredibly fruitful conversation for me. This is because his response to my question about the first amendment involved mentioning Larry Lessig's 4 modalities of change. These are law, markets, norms and architecture:
This was a really helpful framework to begin to tackle a hard problem where change is necessary. An example is what will be a common thread through a few episodes now, The Line. This is the world’s largest construction project, yet terribly managed:
Quote from a WSJ article. Also check out this one. Not to mention this. All links allow reading for free. You will particularly enjoy the last one.
I really recommend listening to the constitutional amendments part of the discussion. Jordan's patience, thoughtfulness and obvious taste for adventure made him a great guest and we are so very privileged to have had him on.
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