Partner at @initialized. Previously @techcrunch. When life hands me lemons, I make tarte au citron.
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Aug 7, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Just honestly, WTF is it going to take for the US Forestry Service and the federal government to not do such a shitty anti-science job at managing the fuel load on the ~33 million acres that they control in California?
Refused to re-open schools for a whole year unless they got access to vaccines (& pushed themselves to the front of the line ahead of other essential workers like MTA).
Now defends the right of anti-vaxxers to expose your unvaccinated child to Delta variant.
True health exemptions are fine because not everyone can be vaccinated, but otherwise this is f- ridiculous. Give people paid time off if they experience side effects for a day or two.
Jul 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Lady, your state isn't going to have water. Have you checked out the Lake Powell or Mead reservoir levels lately?
We need to cut emissions, get a national clean electricity standard & more in this deal.
"A drawer of run cards, which firefighters would pull from after receiving an alert from one of the fire boxes. The cards would help them determine which trucks and engines to send out to the fire."
Ah yes, 20 minutes pro- and con- of an elected school board member calling Asian Americans house [-------] and who won't resign despite the entire city's political establishment telling her to will be the exact kind of "restorative justice" the beleaguered school system needs:
(Yes, there are legitimate conversations to be had about anti-Blackness in the Asian-American community and about whether Lowell creams the school district, but she has 0 credibility with 35% of the students she's supposed to serve so she should leave & stop being a distraction.)
“What’s wrong with these people? They’re committing political malpractice and educational malpractice seemingly at every meeting,” -@RafaelMandelman, a gay supervisor representing the Castro who said he’s heard repeatedly about gay students facing bullying and discrimination.
Jan 21, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
There's been a ton of speculation of what Silicon Valley is going to look like after the pandemic when companies return to work. I've been interested in this for several years and I thought I'd add data to the conversation based on our founder surveys: blog.initialized.com/2021/01/data-p…
The reality for us is that Peak Bay Area -- as in the % of companies based in the Bay Area per fund -- was actually seven years ago in 2014. In the 2018 fund, fewer than half of the companies are based here. blog.initialized.com/2021/01/data-p…
Jan 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I’m very confused. Something between this Bloomberg chart putting us in *last place*....
... and the public statements of the state’s health leadership isn’t adding up at all. Either that Bloomberg chart of doses we’ve received is wrong or state or feds aren’t telling the truth?
I'm concerned the state gave too overly rigid and precise guidance without ensuring that providers actually have the ability to quickly reach out to and bring in these highly specific target groups for vaccinations and that's slowing us down relative to almost all other states.
“Children are increasingly considering suicide, according to the Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, and pediatric emergency visits for mental health issues have jumped over the last year by up to 31% according to the Center for Disease Control.” sfchronicle.com/health/article…
Jan 1, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Bad news. The new variant appears to impact school-aged children more substantially than the previous version.
It pains me that “wildfire” is now used as a political excuse to block bills allowing more infill housing in the urban core away from the wildland-urban interface. (I’m looking at you @HenrySternCA for your bullshit ass vote against #sb50 last spring.)
If the Supreme Court rules on this, well, all I can say is it will be a really bad ruling that emboldens criminalization of the poor all across the US. (And it won’t be particularly effective.)
We tried this approach in San Francisco in the early 1990s under former mayor Frank Jordan, who was previously a police chief. He argued people should be sent to jail if they slept in the streets.
The #1 cause of homelessness in SF, according to interviews of people without housing and the comprehensive point-in-time count out today, is job loss. It's bad the count went up during a boom, but don't fool yourselves into believing that it wouldn't get worse in a downturn.
"If your face appears in the background of another person’s TikTok video shot in Berlin, will it be logged using facial recognition software running in Shanghai?"
Someone finally wrote this op-ed! nytimes.com/interactive/20…
.@oliviasolon & @cfarivar wrote this yesterday about a friendly-seeming app actually using consumer data to train facial recognition systems. Remember in the US, there is at least an adversarial, free press & separation between state and corporate entities
One reason that Bay Area cities resort to approving large amounts of [tech] office space is in part because single-family homeowners do not pay property tax levels that keep pace with the cost of providing services. So local govts have to look toward alternate strategies.
In Japan, train companies can earn revenue from rents in surrounding station areas on top of fares. In CA, we can invest billions in infrastructure and subsequent spikes in nearby land/property values are captured almost wholly by the people who happen to own nearby property.
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