Today is voting day in California, so please remember to vote. You have until 8pm. So almost everyone is not voting. So if even just 1 out of 3 of the people reading this who aren’t planning to vote went and voted, the voter turnout rate would double! In the 2012 Presidential election, the voter … Continue reading Reminder: Vote Today in California
I’ve written up my voter guide for the June 7th elections. Read the short version or the long version with more background information. The Short Version Offices Party-Nominated Offices President of the United States: Bernie Sanders Voter-Nominated Offices United States Senator: Kamala Harris United States Representative: Preston Picus State Senator: Scott Weiner Member, State Assembly: … Continue reading Jeremy’s 2016 Voter Guide for the June 7th California Primary and SF Election
There’s been a lot said and written about income and wealth inequality in the United States recently, but most of it refers to he-said-she-said quotes and data and statistics. I thought it was time to actually dive into the primary source data to see what the real story is. And the real story is that … Continue reading Which Percent are You? — The Actual Income Distribution in the United States
1/ A few thoughts on what I think literacy is today. 2/ For reading: know how to read data, read code, read words critically and read sources — to find out what is real and what is not. 3/ For writing: know how to write code, write words on emails and on blogs and on tweets, professionally … Continue reading What Literacy Means Today
What’s the Mission of New York City? What is the Times Square of Chicago? The definitive answers to a definitely subjective question. UPDATE October 2018- built a tool here to allow people to add their own comparisons and aggregate them: http://neighborhood.thekeesh.com/ I’ve had this conversation a handful of times, trying to determine what the equivalent of … Continue reading Neighborhood Comparisons Across Cities
I think if you had asked me a year ago I would have said I don’t like politics. I just found it painstaking to read about it, everything I saw related to government felt deeply broken. It’s just another blip in the news to read about something like a government shutdown. I still find politics … Continue reading Why I’m Voting For Bernie Sanders And You Should Too
Compassionate Community or You’re On Your Own? I believe there are two fundamentally opposing attitudes that are most responsible for shaping the current political discourse. One attitude, which I’ll call the You’re On Your Own Attitude: In America you need to figure it out on your own. No one owes you anything. You need to … Continue reading American Attitudes
I woke up recently and realized that I was pitching CodeHS in my dream. I think this highlights the idea that if you are a co-founder or CEO of a small startup, you are pitching your company 24/7. No one knows what your company does. You need to find a way to articulate it clearly … Continue reading 10,000 Pitches
Can we count on Medium to be around in 10 years? I’m planning to look at my blog posts then, too. I spent some time this week looking over coding projects I have done over the last 12 years, which is pretty much about when I started experimenting with coding. I realized a few awesome … Continue reading I’m going to write on Medium. And I’m going to keep copying posts over to my blog.
How many pennies might you passively pay to read an article? Here I’ll outline a model for what micropayments for content could look like with some numbers. According to this link, people in the US spend 32 hours online per month, and 20% of that time reading content. So say people spend 6 hours per … Continue reading A Model For Micropayments for Content
