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    Everine is a web app released in 2023 that shows free and remote non-profit resources to manage the hardest things in your life.

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    A program launched at Faura in 2026 helped build at Faura to inform homeowners of the risk of their building, and to incentivize them to complete mitigation work.

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    Isolated Not Alone was an Astra project and coalition launched in 2020 to provide free resources to first responders during COVID.

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    Oenone is an app being designed to triage and provide care to homeless patients for non-profit street medicine providers.

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    Seon was an unreleased app meant to help people manage their long-term disabilities independently.

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    I built a tiny house out of a 1975 vintage jail trailer for $20k in 2022.

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    Verena was an app released in 2016 designed to be a hidden security system for people in dangerous situations.

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    In the heat of the moment, we fail to properly compute information, forget critical things, or have a delayed reaction time that computers just don’t have. And the results can be deadly: plane crashes, car crashes, and more. All symptoms of an inability to make sense of the data, or being forced to be an actor in a system that previously automated your job away.

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    “Most of the things we face today are deeply complex, in a fragmented digital world. I think so many of the non-profits that exist today do incredible things. But it’s still not enough. Maybe what nonprofits do never will be enough. But it’s worth using the playbook of tech companies, who achieve incredibly high-scale penetration with low cost. With interconnected software, we can build a non-profit that’s able to help anyone with any major issue they’re facing, anywhere.”

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    I am a systems person, and the last thing startups often develop are systems. What I did over the holidays was build mine. It’s designed not only to organize everything for me, but to be extensible as jumping off points to share with the team, or to keep them functioning if I die tomorrow. Our company will live and die by the knowledge we acquire, and failure to track and implement that knowledge is legitimately throwing money in the trash.