What I’ve learned about hiring and team building

Of all the things we do at Adaptive, the least glamorous, but possibly most important, is hiring and building team culture. In building our team, we confront a set of annoying problems: We are not exactly curing cancer here at Adaptive. Very, very few people grow up excited about the idea of renovating and managing … Continue reading “What I’ve learned about hiring and team building”

An obvious way to quickly add lots of housing to LA

Los Angeles is in the midst of an un-precedented housing shortage. All over the city, there are vacant, obsolete commercial buildings. City law prevents these buildings from being easily re-purposed for residential use, due mostly to parking and set-back requirements. Yet the city waived these requirements for re-purposing of obsolete commercial buildings in specific Adaptive … Continue reading “An obvious way to quickly add lots of housing to LA”