I think humans have the same thing, though it’s not as much on the surface.” He likes to draw ferns. “I really like any colony-based structure, where you have a strong dependence on a network,” he said. He expressed a similar interest in ant communities and aspen trees. A city is a system that is at once flexible and stable, searchable and random. When we got to the Muni stop, Dorsey, who is thirty-six, pointed it out with the excitement of a six-year-old.ĭorsey loves cities and the way movement within them can be charted and broken down into millions of parts. He used to follow his bus ride with a pleasant twenty-minute walk down Mission to the San Francisco Chronicle Building, where Square rented office space now his commute ends with a short ride on a Muni train to Square’s new headquarters, which have a panoramic view of the city. If I took another bus, it’d be stopping.” The offices of Square, his mobile payment-processing service, just moved. It’s consistent, and it runs every few minutes. “If you buy it in bulk, it saves you a little bit of money,” he explained.
A ride costs two dollars, but Dorsey has a monthly pass, so the actual price, he told me on a recent commute, is closer to a dollar seventy-five. It carries him nearly from one side of San Francisco to the other-down California Street almost to Market. 1 bus to work, and he likes to catch the 7:06. Jack Dorsey, the tech entrepreneur, takes the No. “Constraint inspires creativity,” he says. Dorsey’s tastes-minimalist design, severe diets-mirror the Twitter aesthetic.