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Breaking a window in SF is not a crime. But operating a tech company in SF, that is the true crime!
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1) Quality of life: sfchronicle.com/local-politics…

2) Stop policing street crime, start going after corporations:
chesaboudin.com/corporate_crime
People think rule by BernieBro just means more feces, more broken windows, more crazies assaulting women on the street.

And they’re right, but it’s going to be so much more!

Every tech co in SF is going to learn what it means to have our own Hugo Chavez. thenation.com/article/chavez…
San Francisco 2019

1) Feces blanket the city
forbes.com/sites/adamandr…

2) 30000 car breakins per year
nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Bre…

3) Woman randomly assaulted, perp freed next day
abc7news.com/suspect-releas…
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From the Journalist and the Murderer, by Janet Malcolm of the New Yorker. Rated one of the top 100 nonfiction books of the 20th century by the Modern Library. amazon.com/Journalist-Mur…
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The one form of equality a journalist will always resist is the idea that everyone is now a journalist
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1. Media companies are corporations
2. Their interests are not always aligned with yours
3. Act accordingly
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What if every slide in a talk had a QR code to interact with?
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Maybe we could develop new forms of coordinated audience interaction. Both in the auditorium and later online.
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