Sam Smith
Startups, Tech, VC
Digital Interfaces, Interaction
Integrated Health
Gardener, Art Enthusiast
- Can we bump up Brittany’s funds up a bit? She’s a teacher in LA who had to grab her students and *run* with them to safety from the fires; she didn’t even have time to grab her purse! Let’s support her and her family: www.mealtrain.com/trains/qlr768
- Reposted by Sam SmithIn November I made a small donation to some folks to accelerate scraping & preserving government websites, in anticipation of the data purge that’s happening now. You can join the r/DataHoarder subreddit if you want to help out with data scraping & archival.
- Sharing another list of LA fire gofundmes, this one for individual teachers. I always look for the gofundmes that aren’t fully funded yet, so whoever put these lists I’ve been sharing together, thank you! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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- Reposted by Sam SmithAbsolutely love staring at new JWST images mesmerized by the immense scale of the universe. Just think of how many planets & stars are in each one of those galaxies 🤯 This image shows the Leo P dwarf galaxy (blue stars in lower right) 📸: NASA/ESA/CSA; K. McQuinn & J. DePasquale
- Sharing this list of LA fire gofundmes that includes dozens that are still underfunded. Let’s keep the momentum of care and contribution going; can you choose one more family to support today? There are musicians, teachers, yogis, & more who need help rebuilding. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Reposted by Sam SmithThese extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
- Reposted by Sam SmithNot lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!) Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled... As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!
- Reposted by Sam SmithOne of the best to ever do it is gone, but his impact will live on forever. Enrique is one of a kind, and his pioneering work will lift up designers for generations to come. I already miss him and am so glad to have crossed paths with him in life. 💔 www.designerfund.com/page/Remembe...
- Reposted by Sam SmithDorothea Tanning, Dogs of Cythera, 1963
- Reposted by Sam SmithAccessibility is one of the biggest open problems in XR, & I've just posted an epic, 15-part, 8-hour Voices of VR series that serves as a crash course on the topic recorded at XR Access Symposium. voicesofvr.com/1222-kickoff-of-xr-…
- Reposted by Sam SmithSpeaking of catastrophic structural failures, here's a map of the 42,000 U.S. bridges known to be in poor condition, with huge state-by-state variance 🧪https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-are-the-worst-bridges-in-the-u-s/
- Nat & Martha Sharpe on raising humans through unbounded interest and living. Reframing education by treating kids as humans, not kids. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/infinite…
- An astute point: education is connected to the community it happens in.
- More highlights: - Agile Learning Centers - The antagonizing relationship between child agency and adult responsibility
- Similar themes around child rearing in this Pomp podcast with Rob Henderson: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pomp…
- Reposted by Sam SmithHey illustrators, I'm an executive art director for Scholastic's hardcover picture book group, and I’m looking for someone who can draw anthropomorphized cars (à la the film Cars—but cooler) for a graphic reader series aimed at 2nd/3rd graders. Respond here w/ images + a link to your folio.
