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June, 2020

6 observations about fintech after my first 9 months

Nine months ago, I joined ForUsAll as Head of Engineering. It's my first fintech company. Long-term readers will know that I've spent most of my life in the open source web world, building one of the first white label social networking platforms, and in media, where I helped build the way ...
June 24, 2020

Tim Hortons, the surveillance state, and you

Journalist James McLeod examined the data gathered about him by the app for Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee chain: From my home to my office to a Blue Jays game at Rogers Centre, even all the way to Morocco, where I travelled on vacation last June, the company’s app silently logged ...
June 12, 2020

Donate

So far, these are the organizations I've donated to this month: NAACPNAACP Legal Defense FundAlameda County Community Food BankBlack Family and Child ServicesPeoples' BreakfastFreedom FundAlliance of Californians for Community EmpowermentOfficial George Floyd Memorial FundEqual Justice InitiativeSouthern Poverty Law CenterACLU I'm interested in recommendations for other justice organizations. And if you have the ...
June 11, 2020

Kimberly Jones on Black Lives Matter

Please watch. It's just six minutes and forty-six seconds of your time. Black lives matter. Black equality matters. Black opportunities matter. Black justice matters. ...
June 9, 2020

Love and sayur lodeh

My Oma taught me to make food. That wasn't exactly her intention: she had become too old and frail to chop vegetables and stand over a hot stove, so I did those things for her. I was her kitchen surrogate. Through her instructions and careful corrections, I learned the superficial ...
June 9, 2020

Reading, watching, playing, using: May 2020

Here's the media I consumed and found interesting in May. I'm scared for the world and sick to my stomach about the injustices faced by black communities. The pressure cooker exploded in May, and it looks like June will continue this trend. I hope we can find our way to a ...
June 1, 2020