Electric Vehicles as a Universal Basic Asset starts with ‘charge equity’ — Governor Gavin Newsom’s executive order to phase out internal combustion engines by 2035 will effectively convert 10% of all traffic in America to EVs (Electric Vehicles). He signed the measure, despite the pandemic, to push distributed, smart electricity grids — a necessity when all those EVs get plugged in for…

An Alternate Future mobility plan — In 2019, it wasn’t clear that Biden would be President. After the lack of COVID response and leadership by the Federal government, it seemed dubious that the Feds would be building an EV Charger Network for America. Now, Biden has proposed this very undertaking for his first term. This is…

“70% of greenhouse gas emissions are generated by 100 companies.” I first heard this statement in the summer of 2017. The shock of it started a feedback loop in my head. Three simple, distinct questions emerged, loud and clear: 1. Who are these companies? 2. Why are they not taking…

Scouts of Color can’t solve it alone — The wave of calls for inclusion and change has begun to rise from the moat over the high castle walls of venture capital. In the current state, one-percent, that’s 1%, of venture-backed companies have a black founder. 81% of VC funds don’t even have a single black investor. Not one…

Flowing waters of reflection, revelation, the places in-between — The sun started in the canyon It passed over the green peaks, spilling down and filling up the valley. Laguna’s disparities and eccentricities began to wake up. Nina had fallen back to sleep, in the fallen apartment, behind me. A few hours before, the soup kitchen had me talking politics with the stalwarts of Laguna politics…

Of writing’s end — The writer and critic alike see it too easy, cliched ends to a story. The script waits — not for a particular age or marker of retirement. A finality of exploration, a conclusion of experiment, a stoic epiphany as preconditions. It is Woolf wading past her collarbones in the cold…

In scarcity, Fear of missing the free-est flows The third decade’s poet chases the boldness of the second An empty page and rushing night like anomolies Flirting and full and empty all at the same time, romantic time When dreamt, once told, a simple life whispered in trust ‘round the…

A call for small business debt relief — Dan Spanogle expanded his wellness center in Albuquerque, New Mexico into the vacant space next door at the start of the year. It was another rent payment, but he increased revenue with new services, yoga classes, and a partnership with an IV nutrition clinic. He planned to leverage other assets…

The Great Equalizer, a survivalism and unprecedented psychological insecurity, replaced our other fears. So this is what wartime was like? And how strange, how sad, how fragile we all seemed, creating our own miniature civil wars, stirring conflicts inside ourselves. When unspoken interdependence has made it possible for a single…