When I was in elementary school, I would take apart my parent’s IBM AT computer and put it back together again. I soaked up learning to type with Mavis Beacon software and playing Oregon Trail RPG game. Then there were the bulletin board systems (BBS) that existed before there was the Internet we know and love today. Fast forward to my first job being at Earthlink, Inc. in Pasadena, CA after high school in the early 90s to now being an IT leader after being in the industry for more than 20 years.
Current Things I love
Elon Musk’s Master Plan | My Tesla Referral Link
Elon believes the three advances for humanity’s future are 1) humanity will migrate away from fossil fuels to save the planet (Tesla), 2) humanity will become a spacefaring race (SpaceX) and 3) we should protect ourselves from a super-intelligent AI.
Andrew Yang’s #YangGang Plan | Policy Website
I’m a huge science fiction geek. Imagining the future gives me hope and the hope is that capitalism won’t be the driving force of humanity anymore. We will have such abundance that we will be able to sustain ourselves as exemplified in our fiction, specifically, Star Trek. The homeless on our city streets today will be taken care of (ever since Reagon did away with federal mental health institutions) and people will be driven by ideals like advancing humanity in science and culture (hopefully).
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)’s Green New Deal
If you’re starting to see a theme here, it’s planning for the future and solving today’s problems. Rather than “protecting” existing things, we get to solve inequality (racial, LGBT, immigrant and economic) and climate change while building the economy of tomorrow. Both the previous two plans approach it from different directions and this one is no different. I don’t believe that any single plan will solve all of our problems but all of them working together, picking the best ideas as we implment them, as the original New Deal did, will build the future of tomorrow.
Google Authenticator two-factor authentication
Apple Macbook Pro (Silicon) laptop
Samsung Note 20 Ultra smartphone
Cisco Systems networking solutions