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How Bicycle Messenger Networks Shaped City Productivity
Before email and courier vans, the fastest thing moving through a city was a person on two wheels. In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into the surprisingly large productivity jump that bicycle messengers delivered to early twentieth-century banking, law, and journalism. They trace how one cheap, human-powered technology compressed urban transaction times from hours to minutes, and ask what that teaches us about today's investments in speed. Along the way they unpack the economics of the 'last mile', the network effects of dedicated messenger lanes, and why the bicycle's…
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