A short thread on @AndrewYang and the Ponzi scheme/environmental disaster called cryptocurrency. (1/n) Yang's top campaign staff and key advisers don't work for his campaign; they work for Tusk Strategies, a lobbying firm with lots of city business. (2/n) cityandstateny.com/articles/polit…

A short thread on what it feels like to be in NY right now: Yesterday is when I understood what our friends in Italy were trying to tell us a few ago, about the intensity of so much loss in such a short time. (1/n) In the last six days, six people I am close to have lost someone to COVID-19. A dear friend lost both his aged parents 3 days apart. A young colleague lost her mother. Another lost her father-in-law. A cousin told of his two best friends each losing their mothers. (2/n)

So much to say about this bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Reid Hoffman, Jeff Katzenberg, Fred Wilson and Sunil Paul threw good money at this.

Here's what you'd see back in 2012 if you were signing on to Obama campaign's Facebook "I'm In" app, which they used to garner 1M supporters' trust, and then harvest FB social graph. 1/n First screen, from Obama-Biden home page