life update: i left google! thankful to have gotten to work in so many topics — from climate tech to quantum to ai’s intersections with accessibility, creativity, and racial equity up next: a personal sabbatical! going to explore documentary filmmaking 🎬🎞

for any company where AI-generated content might potentially compromise integrity or user safety, check this out

NYC 3 months apart. The climate crisis will manifest in hundreds of ways and we need to be ready

Asian Americans allowing themselves to be used to scapegoat Black people & end Affirmative Action is particularly tragic given Asians were only able to immigrate to the United States b/c Black civil rights leaders passed immigration reform & demanded Asians receive equal access😐

Pedro Pascal as IPCC assessment reports and iconic figures: a thread

compelling, thoughtful coverage by @CestRommel on the human impact of long-term flooding on an immigrant neighborhood in queens, ny. as climate change worsens, stories like these will only become more prevalent unless changes are made

loved this breakdown by @nayafia on the plurality of climate approaches https://t.co/zhzhlJtvkV

Our latest piece on why the recent disaster in Pajaro isn't "natural" but a function of historic exclusion. With the amazing @Prof_MPastor and @latimes

“to live as an artist is a practice of paying attention” @RickRubin like this a lot, gels well with an idea i’ve been toying with that when you’re present, *existing is research.* if you pay close enough attention to any moment, there’s always a thread hanging there to pull on.

the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God inside of each of us

Three years ago we clapped and cheered for our healthcare heroes as they literally risked their lives during a pandemic. Now nurses are forced to strike to seek fair compensation and safer patient-staff ratios. The whiplash is a lot.

The fundamental driver of homelessness in US cities is a lack of housing supply — not drug use, poverty, mental illness, or climate. This explanation from @JerusalemDemsas should end the debate once and for all:

proud of @wp @northstarmoney for how far they’ve come in making financial wellness more accessible 🎉

Yes, there is no intrinsic meaning or purpose in your life. This is difficult; it’s also the reason there’s possibility for you. The task of living is to invent meaning and purpose, and then invent it again. It’s work. Much of the time it’s painful. Sometimes, it’s also joy. 3/

MORE. SPACE. AH.

"For any of these new solutions to work for climate, they have to have at least these two ingredients: the technology that scales and the relationships and empathy that we share... Technology can only bring half the solution. The community brings the other half." 🙌🏾👏🏾🙏🏾

Devastated. “For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?” - bell hooks May this giant rest in love.

"the moment we choose love, we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others." — @bellhooks

on why we need dreams and dreamers: https://t.co/M08XqZzOC3