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Welcome back to the breakdown.

It is Tuesday, May 5th, Cinco de Mayo, and I'm sure by now you've already seen the

memes going around that say something to the effect of,

imagine a world where Cinco de Mayo falls on Taco Tuesday, only to be ruined by a virus

named after a Mexican beer.

But that's the state of where we are.

It is Tuesday, the 5th of May.

And today, I wanted to do something a little bit different.

For those of you who don't know, who aren't familiar with my background, I spent about a decade in San Francisco doing tech before moving back

to the East Coast, where I live now in the Hudson Valley and focusing entirely on crypto and

content marketing and this podcast. And the thing that got me into tech was actually working

with a company called change.org because when I was in college and then for

the first couple years after, my focus was entirely on social impact and in particular, the

relationships between people from different places, how you build networks of action that could

include both people on the ground actually experiencing problems as well as international

networks of support?

What was the right way to actually create change and make a difference?

I think that on the one hand, I am loath to say that everyone just needs to take care of themselves and that everything should be left to communities.

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