Twitter friends, I have some news! After 10 months of blissful funemployment, I've found a job and a calling that really excites me! I'm joining
@coinbase
to help drive technical strategy and work on the most interesting challenges facing our industry.
In my spare time I hack on Loop - open source software that closes the loop for my missing pancreas. Today's hack is building on
@elnjensen
(and others) fine work and getting a really usable interface on the watch. Here's what it looks like!
#T1D
After living under this cloud for a year, today is a good day! This is my first shot so I'm not out of the woods yet- but it's a step in the right direction. Kudos to the team at Moscone, and everybody who made this incredibly friendly and efficient process possible.
3/ I was excited by the opportunity to join one of the great teams in this space that's using blockchain and cryptocurrency to increase economic freedom in the world. Come do it with me!🚀🚀🚀
I just tried out
#tailscale
(and
#wireguard
) for the first time on a personal project. I'm blown away by how easy and powerful it is - it's rare to find a new technology that effectively combines power and simplicity. Good work
@bradfitz
and team!
2/ Many of you know that I've been a crypto enthusiast since about 2013 when I bought my first bitcoin (on Coinbase!) I found that I was spending most of my free time during unemployment playing in this fun and innovative space anyway so
My friends, I have some news! As of a few weeks ago, I am officially unemployed. In my 25+ year career I've never taken off more than a few months at a time, and I've never left a job without having a new one lined up, so this is an exciting development f…
I am incredibly excited to finally be able to share this news! We have made tremendous progress in bringing our personalization platform to students outside of the AltSchool lab network! Thanks to our lab schools and dev team for building platform that really makes a difference!
Here's a wonderful little bit of
#karma
that I received in my email yesterday. It makes me so happy that a small act of kindness can have this impact on somebody's life, and the world. Today's going to be a great day!
@isaach
this is exceptionally cool, *and* I love how they compare the insane precision to everyday concepts (eg. "shooting an arrow from Earth to hit an apple placed on the moon") to set perspective. Incredibly approachable prose.
I work for the Canadian federal government and they sent out an email with work at home guiding principles. It’s amazing to work for a place that speaks like this.
This is the time we all need to come together. We’re proud to join forces with 24 other Bay Area companies to commit $22M to organizations fighting on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis.
#COVID19TechCollaborative
This is a really big deal for Type 1 Diabetes. The Loop artificial pancreas app has dramatically improved my health outlook by bringing my
#T1D
under tight control. But as an open source app, it's impact is limited.
@Tidepool_org
is going to change that.
At
@altschool
we believe that a student who understands WHY education is important to them individually will be motivated to figure out HOW to make education personally relevant. This is a great example of students taking charge of their own learning.
Kicking off the
@altschool
partner forum with our west coast partners. So excited for the next 2 days building our community of learner-centered educators
#learningtogether
Scene: San Francisco supermarket.
A woman approaches me with free sausage samples.
Her: Want to try some? they're delicious.
Me: Meat or plant?
Her: Plant
Me: Beyond or Impossible?
Her: Beyond
Me: I'll take two
Kicking off our 25th bday with a huge thanks to all the people + businesses using our products around the world. Been reflecting on the questions that got us here, and the search for answers that will drive extraordinary progress over the next 25 years 🎈
8/ I started his new book - Termination Shock - tonight. I am so happy to say that now, 30 years after the first time, I just hit that moment of joy. This book is going to be amazing. Thanks,
@nealstephenson
- you’ve still got it!
More great news to share today! Twelve more diverse and collaborative partner school districts are joining the
@altschool
mission to improve education!
To be fair, everybody mentioned in this tweet (including the tweeter) write code that is sublime. But it's nice to see them all complimenting each other.😀
"I feel like Salieri. I understand the greatness. I don't understand how it's done."
Well said, Craig Silverstein! We all feel that way when looking at Sanjay Ghemawat's code.
(Aside: if you haven't seen the movie "Amadeus", you should!)
Actually the Art Thing I think about most is this graph (created by painter Marc Dalessio). No joke I think about this graph every single day. I've told my therapist about it. It's gotten me through a lot of dark slumps. I try to tell myself my wrist just is catching up to my eye
Norway is consistently ranked as a top-ranked education system worldwide and yet they see learner-centered models as the next mountain to climb. So inspiring to see how hungry educators, community members, and learners are to keep growing!
@altschool
@bharat
#NordicEdge2018
AltSchool is off to an amazing school year. We're adding 19 new partners from public schools, charter, and indepent schools. Join us and make a difference!
Almost 30 years ago, I was wandering through the SF section in a book store and picked up a book with a cool cover and started flipping through it. I was instantly hooked. 🧵
I'm a type 1 diabetic, and the projects listed in this article have made a huge positive impact on my health and my life. I'm proud to be able to contribute in a small way to this movement. Huge thanks to the heroes that have made this possible!
So many people have contributed in their spare time to pushing this tech forward. They can’t all be credited in one article, but this one does better than many others.
This is so true. My son Remy - now 3 1/2 years old - will graduate from college in 2036. We don't know what that world will look like, but we must prepare him and children like him for the future. I believe that learner centric progress education is part of the solution.
Our partnership with
@GregGazanian
and the
@ArcadiaUnified
team has been an incredible experience for us. I am really excited to see what this school year brings!
I'm excited to have the opportunity to share some of the incredible partnership work that we've done between
@altschool
and
@ArcadiaUnified
this year! Healthy partnerships are based on mutual purpose, values and vision and our journey has captured that well.
I want to share something cool that happened today. It's a bit of a story, though so bear with me. It starts with me being diabetic. I'm Type 1, and was diagnosed in 2000 when I was 30 years old.
This is a great visualization of
@aoc
's marginal tax proposal. The net tax impact is non-existent for most, proportionally minor even for the super wealthy and will generate valuable funds for programs like education and healthcare.
read more:
Hear hear. I loved working with
@JeffDean
& Sanjay. Two incredibly impressive engineers on their own, but together they were nothing short of phenomenal.
@isaach
I was the TL for the project to make Google the home page and default search engine for Firefox. It was an amazing deal for all involved.. good times!
I’m the President and CTO of
@altschool
. We're announcing some great progress today. There's a story behind it that I'd like to share with you, so I'm starting a twitter thread.
This is genius. Let's see. A tech package used (and sometimes abused) by digital law enforcement happens to fall off a truck into the hands of a security expert. /1
"I work in a pile of laundry. This is no exaggeration—my home office is approximately three square feet of the laundry room, the only available space in the house not claimed by our toddler."
Welcome to the new normal.
@alexandergmoore
really nails it.
14/ And if you're
#T1D
and want to learn more about any of this - reach out to me! I'll happily help you get set up the way that I am. It's life-changing technology that is prolonging my life. I'm deeply grateful to the whole community for their hard work!
@peter
My first name means India in Sanskrit. So technically I have the twitter handle for a whole country. My mentions are pretty weird sometimes... 😀
This is an incredibly enlightening thread about why the rescue situation in Thailand is so challenging. I had no idea it was this complex. I'm now overwhelmingly thankful that 4 have made it out alive! And deeply sad about the SEAL who gave his life in the rescue attempt.
Coming into
@altschool
I knew that personalized learning was important. But it's through the hard work by this team that I am beginning to understand HOW to achieve it. This is a great post by my friend and colleague David Rodriguez on how to build an amazing foundation.
As many of you know, I've been increasingly interested in climate change and climate solutions over the past few years.
A few years ago, I started asking myself: I'm a software infrastructure leader, with a specialty in reliable distributed systems - what can I do to help?
7/ There are lots of baked-in safety measures. The developers treat this _very_ carefully. We are all diabetic and this can be dangerous. But the proof is in the results - my A1C score went from ~8.0 to ~6.5 in 18 months. This is a life-changing health improvement for me.
This is a great next step for
@altschool
and
@AltitudeLearn
. Our lab schools have reached a level of quality that lets them stand on their own with a new operator, and the platform will now be able to make a big difference in public schools around the nation.