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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD

@mroddc.bsky.social
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Head of Data Science & Geospatial @ Cushman & Wakefield | Economist & urban planner. Passion for cities, data, real estate, & transpo. 🚉 DC area's journeyman adjunct professor of planning and policy. 🎓. 🐶 are the best.

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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Insufferable thing when you go to a restaurant, it’s like not even 50% full, and the hostess says there’s a 20-30 min wait. Brings out a Larry David in me.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Gonna start a business and the business is an app of eye contact drills so that Gen Z can fix themselves.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
They should do a prequel in the same Odyssey extended universe where we get to see more about the Troy stuff, Agamemnon, and meet other of the heroes.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
When you call USAA and they call you Rank Surname
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
So Argentina won the Falkland Islands rematch. We almost would’ve had a Spanish armada rematch. Instead we have like… a Jose San Martin vs King Ferdinand VII rematch.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Kane shouldn’t have gone golfing that day
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
He put the eggs away and knew that it would add chaos to that morning, but he did it anyway and he smiled and ate his scramble.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I would be so proud to see the president give 250 minutes of speech about our nation tomorrow, one minute for every year, perhaps while wearing an original uniform of George Washington from 1776.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Spotify lossless does sound pretty good for any hi-fi geek and I'm not sure what the Tidal or Qobuz argument is anymore.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Plastic bottles for water are banned from my home. It least if you’re gonna waste plastic needlessly, do it for something with value-add like syrupy carbonated water.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Why do they even stream the Lindsay songs when people only really want the Stevie songs?
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
As a Spanish speaker, I still find it bizarre that the store “Chicos” is, apparently, not a menswear store.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If they genetically eradicated thistle weed nothing bad would happen and only good would happen. In fact you’d probably have less toxic Monsanto use. Just eradicate thistle. There’s no reason for it to exist.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Reflecting pool is one step from being tentacle porn
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
People should be able to once annually use their 401ks to pay for home debt or student debt, penalty free. Tax the withdrawal, no penalty. Because reducing debt = building wealth, so why compel someone to “invest” at x% when they can reduce debt at a known 5-15% guaranteed. It’s the same thing!
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I’m so High Millennial that I cannot for the life of me fear past in my head that $35k gets you a BMW 3 series entry luxury car, a nice Accord is like $15-20-ish depending on upspecs, and $20-30 is like SUVs depending on specs. I refuse to adjust that price anchoring.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
probably one of the most efficiency-improving AI things I find is its ability to QC a technical write up against an excel or csv model outputs. I find it quite good at simply reconciling report text to output, especially if you are making many changes last minute and easily get tripped up.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I like that it’s been eight different champions for eight years
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Sorta concerned about Mr. Noodle’s cognitive health.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I thought tickets were hard to come by and like a bajillion dollars why’s the stadium look like it’s at 65-70% only ?
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Team USA’s offensive formation
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Sorry but the kits look like cheap candy canes
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
anyone else have a hispanic mom who will literally just sit and watch mass and Spanish rosaries on TV?
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Your constant use of two word sentences is a vary obvious AI writing tell. Lazy execution. Fake boldness. It’s not effective, it’s distracting.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I’ll never comprehend wearing shorts on a flight. Airports and planes are so filthy it just seems so unclean to do so.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
If companies aren’t paying for AI tools and protecting their data it’s setting up a perverse incentive for many employees to pay for their own AI costs out of pocket. For lower-paid employees in the knowledge economy this sets up a class divide for those with money to pay $200/mo and others
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Chait seems to think it’s dispositive of anti-monopolist theory that Walmart was supplanted by Amazon. I mean it’s not. If markets operate like the Sith, with a master and a jealous apprentice who will kill him, that’s not quite a free market working. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
A Sweeping Theory of Everything Is Revolutionizing the Democratic Party
Democrats are in thrall to the idea that corporate consolidation is America’s biggest, and maybe only, problem.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Me: “doc says to shut down internet stuff an hour or more before bed. I should read books. Let me buy some ebooks for my reader” ::searches for books so I won’t be as stressed at night, but also interesting:: ….
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I don’t get Anglophile people: if one has a double barrel last name (no hyphen) and you’re gonna go and drop one of them, why in the world would you drop the FIRST one? (We went with Spanish convention for my daughter.)
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Holy —
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Intellectually I get that Jupiter is huge and heavy because I get physics, but part of me wants to refuse it can be that massive while not having a rocky core and being mostly gas.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Again with this UFO footage: why tf does a $100 mil. jet have a camera with the shittiest video footage but an Uber driver can afford 1080p HD dashcam.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
At my nieces graduation from college and I always think it would be a cool tradition if everyone in attendance of a graduation were encouraged to wear their respective academic regalia. Just a reason for people to actually put caps and gowns and such to use.
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bethosborne.bsky.social @bethosborne.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
t4america.org/resource/rep...
17 states saw increases in the percentage of roads in poor condition during this period. Arizona (5%), Maryland (18%), Georgia (6%), Oregon (5%), Texas (11%), Virginia (9%), and Wisconsin (2%) experienced the greatest increases.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
if you want a smile from an elder millennial, ask them about Homestar Runner
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Request: can we use genetic modifications to eradicate dandelions and thistle weeds? How much time and money is spent getting rid of these?! Not to mention they push people to use harmful chemical weed killers.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Gonna start making a “heart of hearts” adjustment whenever using stated preference or survey sentiment data.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Mayor Humdinger in Paw Patrol sounds like Paul Giamatti doing a bit.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
::some personal news:: ir.cushmanwakefield.com/news/press-r...
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Cushman & Wakefield Hires Dr. Miguel A. Rodriguez as Head of Data Science & Geospatial Analytics
Cushman Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is pleased to announce that Dr. Miguel A. Rodriguez has joined the firm as Head of Data Science Geospatial Analytics, further strengthening the company’s data‑driven ad...
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
As I leave SGA, here are my observations from the field over ten years in working in research and planning across scores of communities. www.smartgrowthamerica.org/knowledge-hu...
smartgrowthamerica.org
Ten years of smart growth: Five observations from the field - Smart Growth America
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Big news: today's my first day as Head of Data Science & Geospatial Analytics at Cushman & Wakefield! 🎉 Super excited for this next chapter. Here's to new adventures!
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Thinking about discount rates and like how does banking work in the Star Wars universe if different beings have vastly different lifespans.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
It is 3am and had trouble sleeping and my thought is that elder millennials are like the High Elves, the last beings to ever see the true light of the Trees of Valinor
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
No one: * Cargo Bike People:
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
the thing is that the economy bubble, especially in stocks, was highly vulnerable to an exogenous negative shock. Any little thing could come and be the needle that pops it. So then they go "lets start a war that inflates deficits and also creates massive oil price spikes and supply chain issues"
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Gen Z employees don't seem to yet understand the full cost / value of employer health insurance, esp. if its an employer that pays 100% of premiums. They be like...
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It’s insane how the Chinese are lapping us at EV tech. To be fair, they’re also lapping Europe. www.fastcompany.com/91503415/byd...
fastcompany.com
BYD just killed your EV argument with a battery that competes with gas engines
The Chinese carmaker's new batteries feature a 5-minute charge and 621-mile range, plus a 620,000-mile lifespan and lower prices.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Transit oriented development in action. People thought McLean Station on the Silver Line was underused. But as Capital One Tower went back to office, this is a train of knowledge workers jammed, queued to exit, every morning I come to go the other way. #wmata #virginia
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The reality here is that universities would love to hire visible and capable conservative scholars. That they have to create separate centers, and then hire people who would never make it in an open search, underlines the fact that its not anti-conservative bias, its a lack of strong candidates.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I’m often here questioning Ryder’s choice of pups for his missions and saying “had it been me, I’d have picked…”
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