So… this is a thread and a good one… I stopped by #Silhouette in Greenwood to visit with an amazing founder Venita Cooper to talk about milestones and their current focus as part of @devlandnext’s program with Build in Tulsa, called Grow Tulsa. But wait there is more… I learned there that Coop would be presenting at the Showcase hosted by @lightshipcap to bring attention to a few of the amazing companies that went through their accelerator. She was definitely nervous but her new company #arbit is gaining traction, so there is plenty to talk… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Let me break down why the language “social media” was never an accurate depiction of larger web technology context actually happening in the background after the rise of Facebook and where the web is headed next. The term "social media" primarily arose from the behaviors present on platforms like AOL, MySpace, Black Planet, and Friendster as the survivors of the dot com era started to lose a stable heart rate.

The relationship between work and value is incredibly disproportionate and growing more-so in cities. We cannot pretend that cities cannot fail, that their underlying infrastructure is aligned with benefit, or that past actions will not continue to yield unintended consequences. We should not forget how the growth of the cities was a subsidized initiative to transition workforce from agri-farm and trade work into the industrial realm and when cities failed to maintain these fixtures many cities crumbled then.

Wealth rarely changes location. However, currently “opportunities” are seeing the wildest redistribution to new geography. Think twice maybe 3 times if you are in the right location. The other thing is how did we get to a place where we are moving so much junk between different locations. That has to stop also.

Neo-Slavery looks like regional wage suppression, posed as affordability, presented without offering any economic mobility. I remember being offered a 50k salary in one region of the country while my coworkers with the same title and less experience were making more than 2x that. Wages can be used to prevent an employee from being able to find a new job. As well so can nominal cost of living wage changes that trail behind standard of living and local micro economic trends.

Let's be very clear. Credit reporting, credit scores, credit worthiness, qualified candidacy are all forms of redlining.

Most black and brown people are over leveraged in terms of debt or have not established their credit. There is a reason why. That is statistical regardless of financial decisions an individual may make. Therefore you should understand that if I do not historically have account history with debt products, and do not also have assets that can be used as collateral, how can I have a high credit score.