Journalist and author J-P Flintoff is this person who inspired me to start this podcast. He talks passionately about how to get people started on their creative projects and the positive impact their creativity has on the world. This interview gets very meta: a podcast about the creative process of podcasting. We get into all sorts of great techniques for creative projects, including:

• Improv games
• Valuing what you are good at
• Not losing track of what is working well already
• The importance of getting started
• Not worrying about whether it is going to be good.
• Shared space in the creaive process
• Why we need to keep noticing

But beyond any particular tactic, it is J-P's warmth and encouragement that I find so inspiring. I hope it inspires you too.

I can’t think of metropolitan landscape that offers more varied and exciting opportunities for designing transport infrastructure than San Francisco, with its steep hills, its bay, its rapidly changing economy and its tantalisingly separated land masses. In this episode I catch up San Francisco-based transport engineer and old friend Andrew Kosinski and we geek out on transport-related talking points including:

• Bridgoff: Bay vs. Golden Gate
• Tearing down freeways
• Bringing cycling into San Francisco
• Is driving a right and it is a freedom?
• The phenomenon of ‘parklets'
• Tunnelling through ships
• Building towers on weak and shifting sands
• The creative bubble of silicon valley and the unintended consequences
• Autonomous vehicles
• Using firms like Uber to replace under-productive bus routes
• Becoming passive consumers of cities