Video: How to Start a Good Neighbor Week
Super fun time yesterday speaking with over 50 community leaders across the country on how to start a Good Neighbor Week where they live. I'm glad my story of starting SF Good Neighbor Week is inspiring others to start their own…
The second best part of Neighborhood Village Project: texting during zoom calls
In spring 2025, I participated in the third cohort of Neighborhood Village Project. The best part of the ten week cohort was definitely the people I met, especially the great folks in my Friday pod.
But this post isn’t about the best part of NVP. This post is about the second best part…
You don’t have to be friends with your neighbors…
My biggest "a-ha" moment about neighboring happened in a zoom breakout room last year. Yep, where the magic happens…
Presenting to San Francisco neighborhood groups
We love being invited to present about SF Good Neighbor Week at neighborhood group meetings. Tonight we presented at the Diamond Heights Community Association meeting— thank you for having me!!
What Alex Honnold taught me about preparation
I couldn't watch Alex Honnold's Taipei 101 climb ( 🫣 🙈 ). But I did listen to a bunch of his interviews. I love listening to Alex talk about mindset and preparation.
A week full of launch events…
Last week was full of super unique/ inaugural/ launch events in San Francisco!
…if you're seeing what I'm seeing, the future is ☀️☀️☀️
Getting more comfortable asking people for money (and winning the Audience Favorite award)
My journey getting more comfortable asking for money, what fear mitigation techniques I used, and what I cried to my therapist about last week…
Presenting “Don’t Look Up” at Dominican University
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.
First place at the Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards!
😆 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! 🏆
Dancing cats and ignoring instructions— Vibe coding with 20 San Francisco fourth graders
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.
“Because if I could afford shipping, I wouldn't have met Barbara.”
"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.
Help me raise $5,000 on my way to $ 1 Million?
The truth is that while I’m excited to raise $5,000 this month, I need a million dollars to accomplish our goals
Allow us to re-introduce ourselves: Good Neighbor Lab
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.
Six San Francisco Newsrooms Host Community Listening Sessions During Inaugural SF Good Neighbor Week
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.
We won! Next Challenge Grand Prize
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…
Announcing San Francisco Good Neighbor Week
🎉 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.
Recap: Castro Feedback Day!
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