Being early on things, from my Twitter archive

The bigger picture, in your words

With my KIP project to make sense in the social age and surface the best civic participators - or members of “the Fifth Estate”, - I’ve been collecting the contributions on Twitter.

For a couple years I made graphic images of quotes I spied. I put some of them together into a larger narrative of our time, and this moment. Take a look!

Below is a short version of the narrative in the video. See the video for quote credits or read the transcript with credits here.

“The Bigger Picture” In Snippets From Emergent News Contributors Curated By KIP

Good news from The Presidio Trust Board of Directors

Which national park had 9.6M visitors this past year - Yosemite? Zion? Grand Canyon? Nope, they had about half that. Answer is: The Presidio.

What a pleasure it is to see the accomplishments of the Presidio Trust - and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy - at last night’s public board meeting.

We also heard about a collaborative plan to extend The Presidio’s nature corridor throughout San Francisco, to green this city and pioneer a model for the nation, starting with local low income poor health areas.

Thanks to Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and the Inflation Reduction Act, The Presidio will be able to update the WW2 infrastructure of the park.

Did you know I write poetry? I do!

This is from 2021.

i’m walking up the sidewalk

a steep hill

steep

slowly

looking at my screen

this is my day.

i look up.

a car is about to drive in my path

20 feet up the hill

into a driveway.

30 feet.

far.

he sees me

driver stops

beckons me to go.

i nod

don’t break my stride.

i see them.

on the far side of the driveway

a woman and a construction guy.

they beckon to me

vigorously

“come on”.

the car is stopped

the driver knows

they beckon bigger.

are you kidding me

i yell to these fools

i’m not going

to run

up the hill

you’re

gonna

have to

wait.

"Social media has held politics and media to account"

Journalism & Backsliding Democracy was a good journalism-democracy-disinformation panel with Jay Rosen at New York University School of Journalism for the Cambridge Disinformation Summit last week.

From my live notes: “Social media has held politics and media to account,” said former director of BBC News Richard Sambrook, hitting the nail on the head!

Social media is not just part of the #disinformation problem, it’s part of the solution as I’ve been contending with my Fifth Estate-holding-power-to-account project: KIP! (Read about it here.)

The hitch: knowing which are the good actors on social media and which are the bad actors.

My live notes: Jay said we need smart practices to solve the hardest problems in news coverage, like if you had a “Category of bad actors” you could put a source in you’d be better prepared. 🤔

That sounds very much like the categorization I’ve been structuring with KIP.

Fleet Week is a jobs fair and experiential museum

Substantial exhibits just strolling through the humanitarian center at Marina Green this Fleet Week, where I was tabling at the San Francisco Fire Depot’s Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) table.

It’s a jobs fair and experiential museum. You can learn how the US Army intubates a patient, and what an earthquake feels like.

I met a Navy diver who dives into wrecks in seas and rivers to retrieve the sunken remains of MIA service people all over the world. 😳

UC Berkeley is #1 in the world for creating venture-funded startups

This week it was announced by Pitchbook 2023 University Rankings that University of California, Berkeley is #1 in the world for creating venture-funded startups.

In PitchBook's overall rankings in 2023, Berkeley is the top public university for producing startup founders for the sixth straight year.

I’ve loved being an entrepreneurship mentor to university students at both these institutions - the European Innovation Academy, the world’s largest extreme accelerator, and UC Berkeley’s School of Engineering Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - and their entrepreneur programs!

Special shout out to Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship program director Gigi Wang for bringing me to Cal as a mentor and a venture judge.

I’ve been consistently impressed with the problems UCB student entrepreneurs have chosen to address, and the fast work they achieve in these accelerated entrepreneurship environments. You can read about student ventures I worked with here and here and here and here.

Berkeley Method gets students thinking like entrepreneurs, click the image to read a 2018 article about it

Congrats to all!