I would tell myself to not believe the dramatic stories I've been told and sold (which were mostly white, cishet stories that never quite applied to me). I would tell myself to look closer to home, to see the smaller, constant stories of love. I spent yesterday building my father's altar... See more
A design studio called donttakethisthewrongway has placed the bags throughout the city for anyone to take a moment to relieve some tension!
The bright yellow bags feature an image of a fist and say âPublic punching bag. Use at your own risk. A healthy place for frustrations.â
The design... See more
Now, the GoFundMe and DonorsChoose thing is closely related, but it gets its own throughline. These platforms emerge to seemingly supplement gaps in the public safety net for things like education and health care. But instead, theyâre in a kind of enabling feedback loop: instead of your taxes ensuring that kids have desks and cancer patients can... See more
Instead, I stopped trying to fit myself and Every into an old model of what a founder, software startup, or media company needs to look like. Those are all old ideas, from an older context. They can be useful when needed. But theyâre dry and dead.
Iâve just tried to be honest about who I am, what I want, and what I believe to be true about the... See more
âOur ability to dream of something different, to name longing, to articulate a vision and commit to it, directly correlates to the likelihood that we will experience it, that it will be realized. It's the way we bring about change for ourselves, and for the world. When we are besieged by visions that do not match our longing, some of which are... See more