Our interests aligned around technology and around the fact that where you were born, or the parents you were born to, had far too much influence on your quality of life and your ability to succeed. I think we agreed, in the time he was alive, that technology had been an overwhelming force for good. But the introduction of the Tech Billionaire Broligarch in these last ten years has soured me on technology, and I believe it would have soured him as well. At least to the extent that tech chooses to subserviate itself to the drives of capitalism and militarism. Two of King’s Three Evils(video), and you don’t have to look any further than a typical tech conference or board room to see racism trailing closely behind. https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/10-years/