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It\u2019s 1:30 am and I am sitting here using Bolt to adjust some rules on the deicer.org<\/a> website I made for immigrant rights.  The entire day I\u2019ve been wondering about all of the projects I want to get back to work on with the break in between semesters.  As I\u2019m driving around, I cant help to think that it\u2019s a privilege in of itself to -get- to sit and think of this stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the while, I\u2019m driving through a community that looks so much like the community from which I came from.  Syracuse has some of the highest levels of childhood poverty in the United States.  That\u2019s not unlike coming from the South Bronx in the 1970s.  Growing up in that \u2013 was trying to beat the odds against Redlining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know I\u2019ve talked about it before \u2013 but I really do think there is this giant race that\u2019s happening right now \u2013 and these large swathes of communities don\u2019t even know that a race is happening.  That\u2019s why I changed a lot of what I\u2019ve done in my off time \u2013 from being the photographer \/ author \/ social media whateveryoucallit<\/em> to wanting to spend all of this energy really looking at how I can take my skills and my experience and try to make something new.  That\u2019s why I made gyrelabs.org<\/a> \u2013 a place to make things like vigia.co<\/a>, Broadcast buddy, and why Im pitching this idea ive been working on for years \u2013 finally \u2013 to accelerators (thanks for the push Ivan Makarov<\/a> ).   While I still am met with the emails from folks who are like  \u201cStick to the Photoshop and photography stuff\u201d \u2013 there are times when you get an email that just feel like youre floating in the right direction.  It still feels lonely \u2013 but at least it feels like what I\u2019m trying to listen to is right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But this post from a longtime follower was encouraging to me.  While I may have helped John on his journey some time ago- he would now help inspire mine so many years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truth is \u2013 what I liked most about photography was the ability to share what I was doing and helping people along.  That has always been the driving force<\/em> \u2013 not the product.  I always tell friends that talked about my work \u201cSchool  will be open on my birthday, man. There\u2019s not a person that will remember any of the pictures that I took 5 years from now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more important part has always been to share and bring others for the ride. That\u2019s why I started by doctoral work getting a DPS at Syracuse \u2013 focusing on how information moves across low socioeconomic communities and how we can use AI and hyper customization to raise communities (ack\u2026 residency is next week!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So that brings me to this place\u2026 where I feel like I have all these desires to make these bigger things \u2013 in the communities that -made- me.  I write all of these thoughts down and wonder why my echo chambers just seem to be focused on valuation, the next vibe code to get you a million dollars, or the cool parties being thrown out in the space.  To me, it feels like the first dot com movement \u2013 sitting in San Francisco or at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium with Intershop Communications<\/a> and thinking the world was wide open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truth is \u2013 it\u2019s always been wide open \u2013 for some<\/em>. There\u2019s this giant party happening at this one level \u2013 all the while there\u2019s another level that is soundproofed from ever hearing about the party.  The more I drive around, the guiltier I feel \u2013 and the sadder I feel that there could be more to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stopped for coffee at a Byrne Dairy to upload the latest change to Github, and started looking around and saying hi to friends at LinkedIN.  In this, I wound up stumbling into the Anthropic<\/a> page.  I found myself smiling at an essay from Dario Amodei<\/a> called Machines of Loving Grace.   Check it out here: https:\/\/www.darioamodei.com\/essay\/machines-of-loving-grace<\/a> (nice touch on the poem. \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time in a long while – I felt like there are folks out there really trying to push to level this playing field.  For the first time in a while it felt like someone was taking this mission to places that could really use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me – it felt like this entire fight didn\u2019t feel so alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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