My mission is todevelop institutions & tools that help people put in hard work, get the support needed to persist through the challenges, and see it pay off with AUTONOMY over THEIR LIVES
The ERA OF SOFTWARE & AI creates new opportunities for this but also establishes new entrenched interests that want to pull up the ladder behind them.
I get a kick out of giving people who don’t always feel they’re on the inside the tools to challenge and change those spaces from a POSITION OF STRENGTH (and throw the ladder down behind them)
I’ve taken some small steps in that direction
Codesmith
An institution to give people (3500+ graduates) the capacities to make an outsized impact on their careers, communities an Oxford university socratic learning approach but with contemporary tech and inclusive community
Hard Parts
A series of talks (with over 2m+ hours of viewing time) on how tech, programming, AI and society ~really~ work to give people a complete mental model and autonomy over the concepts
Fireside Chats
Interviews on the hardest things people have done and the mental models those crystalized
Essays and upcoming book ‘Just Power: earned prosperity in the intelligence age’
The insights I’ve had from all the people who’ve come though Codesmith and from my own experiences
Some other academic/work background:
Oxford University
- Researched how entrenched private financiers contributed to financial crisis (interviewed private bank execs with lots of their lawyers present)
Harvard University
- Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Fellowship
United Nations Economic and Social Council
- Debate prep and reports & brought a bottle of water to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
Icecomm
- P2P video and data communication tool (trended on Hacker News, helped me see the benefit of open source to tech)
