The world just changed fundamentally. Will you?

Joined April 2020
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I didn't move to Miami bc I care about startups. I want to live in an environment where weirdness can thrive and ppl won't fire you for trying a different hat on. That freedom to engage in unfettered truth-seeking is what fosters new ideas, and it's everything tech is built upon.
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something @dakami encouraged me with a few weeks ago while i was looping on a problem: "giving a shit is a superpower." dan's superpower was he gave a shit about other people. be a little more like dan. <3
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“I was the person with a plan. A lot of students are following a preset track—financial analyst, PhD. The pandemic put that in stop mode. Not knowing the next step doesn’t mean my world is going to crumble. It made me less scared to face the unknown.” nyti.ms/3ojZEoA

Read that again.
You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.
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The @nytimes asked 700 epidemiologists which daily activities they had resumed. The answer: not many. Must-read article about the normal next. nytimes.com/2020/12/04/upsho…

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Florida startups 😏🚀
25 Nov 2020
Less than a week after the news broke that Sherwin-Williams fired part-time college student Tony Piloseno over running a viral paint-mixing TikTok account, he has been hired by Florida Paints to develop his own line of paint. There's a lesson here: ow.ly/gGYA50CtZXU
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Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter with Cher and Gregg Allman, White House, on day after inauguration, 1977: #AP
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Let's help @joeagoada and the @CovidFinishLine team get the word out and get on with it. Please share and help out however you can. #ProjectFinishLine #CovidEnderse (Joe's one of many amazing @CultureofHealthLdrs well worth knowing)
Announcing Project Finish Line - a nonprofit initiative to help health workers in underserved communities defeat COVID-19 for good. Let's End This Pandemic Together. #ProjectFinishLine #CovidEnders
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Majority of kids who die of coronavirus are Hispanic, Black, or Native American, CDC finds j.mp/3mvku3e
Nationwide, about 21M ppl lack access to broadband, according to the FCC. When people with slow or unreliable internet connections are included, the number swells to 157 M, nearly half the US population, according to a study by Microsoft. HT @psb_dc on.wsj.com/3hryNCf?mod=e2tw
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Name that tune! And that museum! Enter by Sept. 30. jaxhistory.org/name-that-tun…
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While this can be hard to imagine, sometimes Philosophy is for a Time of Crisis buff.ly/3ho2MLi
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More than 9 million kids have spotty internet, but a hotspot is useless if ‘there's nothing for it to connect to’ in places with limited cellular service. @JaveriaSal's latest: hechingerreport.org/hotspots…
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Life is too short not to do something that matters. @gapingvoid
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27 Aug 2020
Sign in front of Chamblin’s Uptown Books. #AxHandleSaturday
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Search your name in GIFs and pick the one that best sums up this year.
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Mississippi, the poorest state in the US, still has a higher GDP per capita than most of the world. Source: buff.ly/2BvxVNW
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13 May 2020
“Every startup is about a single idea, but taken together, all startups have a common purpose as well: to shape a better world for all of us.And a better world is one in which is one in which everyone is represented and served well by the companies and systems we create”
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They say you want a revolution. This might be where it begins.💥
I’m trying to think of ways to make online teaching more interesting so decided to make trailers for my classes. Here’s my first attempt.
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