Simple Grits Mission -- My Work

Another placeholder…what I do/have done.

LA Legislator (Build an institute; I recommended five satellite programs at institutions that already exist.)
Small non-profit as Clearing House for XXX
Franchise v Expansion of organic

Two characters on The Bear that trigger me – Tina and Ebraheim

White blue collar business.

Sydney, talented hard-working supportive upbringing

Ebraheim: So you’ve seen the space?

Albert Schner: Yes. 

Ebraheim: The question I keep having is, I know there’s room for growth but I just can’t seem to find it. I keep trying to think big. 

Albert Schner: You don’t have to. 

Ebraheim: I don’t?

Albert Schner: What has kept you in such great stead for all these years?

Ebraeim: I don’t know.

Albert Schner: Thinking small.

Ebraheim: What do you mean?

Growth v Maturity – one offers strength/resilience.

Different ways of thinking about sustainability.

Capacity. Outcome. Impact. 

Stability v High Profit

What we are taught re Success. What those without means are told they need to do/accomplish to receive support. IRS article. Current powers in charge are using those metrics to continue to narrow access. Tech oligarchs using tech to literally whittle mother nature’s and humanities infrastructure with 010101 sequences, demanding that we fall into place of that sequence, that pattern…to grow, to succeed. Jeffersonian — with slaves, tho. Einsenhower, with corporate funding. Johnson, to place support for access (make good the promise of Reconstruction). Carter v Reagan. Clinton. Obama. Trump.