Mid-month extra for those of you who opted in. I've been building something that isn't client work and I wanted to tell you about it.
JustTheIssues.org
Here's what I've been thinking about. It's advantageous for political parties, media organizations, and most social media to keep people divided. Division is engaging. It drives people to the polls, to parties, to cable news, to social media flame wars. And it works.
But what's getting lost in all of that? What people actually care about.
I know what I care about. I think it's wrong to murder people. I don't like that if you're poor and get locked up, the key gets thrown away — but if you're rich, you can game the system and skip the time. I don't like spending billions on foreign wars. I want to get to the root cause of homelessness. These are things I actually care about — way more than whatever culture war topic is trending this week.
And I want to know what other people really think. Not anonymous accounts. Not bots. Real people, verified by ID, saying what actually matters to them.
So I built JustTheIssues.org. Nonpartisan issue voting. One person, one vote. No party labels, no money, no agenda. You vote on the issues you care about, and you can propose your own.
I'm forming a nonprofit around this kind of work — taking advances in technology and finding ways to apply them for the good of the people of this country. JustTheIssues is the latest project.
If you think it's worth doing, share it. More people, more meaningful results.
Best,
Devin