This TED Talk features venture capitalist Stephen DeBerry recorded live at TED-2018.

I came to talk about first principles and communities that I love, especially East Palo Alto, California, which is full of amazing people.

It's also a community that's oddly separated by the 101 freeway that

runs through Silicon Valley. On the west side of the freeway and Palo Alto are the haves.

On just about any dimension you think of education, income, access to water. On the east side of the

freeway are the have-nots. And even if you don't know East Palo Alto,

you might know this story of East Side disparity,

whether it's the separation of the railroad tracks in East Pittsburgh

or the Gross Point Gate in East Detroit,

or East St. Louis, or East Oakland, East Philly.

Why is it the communities on the social, economic, and environmental margin?

They tend to be on the east sides of places.

Turns out, it's the wind.

If you look at the Earth from the North Pole,

you'd see that it rotates counterclockwise.

The impact of this is that the wind in the northern and the southern hemispheres

blow in the same direction as the rotation of the earth to the east.

So a way to think about this is, imagine you're sitting around a campfire.

You've got to see ten people.

You've got to keep everyone warm.

The question is, who sits with the smoky wind blowing in their face?

And the answer is, people with less power. This campfire dynamic is what's playing out in cities,

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