My journey getting more comfortable asking for money, what fear mitigation techniques I used, and what I cried to my therapist about last week…

Last month I participated in the Roots of Innovation: Local-First Entrepreneurship conference at Dominican University. I nerded out and used the opportunity to try out a new talk I put together called "Don't Look Up," about how we can change the relationship our users have with tech and with each other, by changing our success metrics.

😆 Haha I missed last week's Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards party, so I didn't realize my story about San Francisco removing its last print newspaper rack won a first place award! 🏆

So much we’re proud of! Here are the top ten:

I volunteered in a 4th grade classroom today at Junipero Serra Elementary School in the Bernal Heights neighborhood. Thanks to the SF Ed Fund encouraging tech workers across San Francisco to participate in CS Education Week, I got to lead a vibe coding lesson with the class, following Hour of AI on code.org.

"Can I be on your board? I want to help you."

I'd like to introduce you to the person who said those words to me today— my new friend, one of the 2025 SF Good Neighbor Award Winners, and my first (!!!) Good Neighbor Lab Board Member, Barbara Wilson.

The truth is that while I’m excited to raise $5,000 this month, I need a million dollars to accomplish our goals

When I realized that this organization is now building bulletin boards and running SF Good Neighbor Week, I saw an opportunity (and a need… for my sanity) to bring the many projects I work on together under one umbrella.

This is the first post in a series of reflections on San Francisco’s inaugural SF Good Neighbor Week.

When I was putting together the inaugural SF Good Neighbor Week in 2025, I knew I wanted local newsrooms involved.

Thrilled to announce that at yesterday’s Media Impact Forum in Philadelphia, Next Challenge announced that we won both our division (Future of Local News) as well as the Grand Prize in the 2025 Next Challenge for Media…

🎉 We are thrilled to announce that Good Neighbor Lab is a founding partner of San Francisco’s inaugural Good Neighbor Week, Sep 28- Oct 4, 2025.

Wowza! What a fun Castro Feedback Day! First time bringing our Castro prototype out in the sun ☀️ We got to showcase the hard work of our volunteers, demo to local community leaders and elected officials, crowdsource design from cute ballerinas, and