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VC + Fixing the American Food System 🥕🥩🌱 Founder @ultranative & @centerforminds.
Austin, TX ultranative.com Joined January 2011
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We bringin it back @centerforminds
Taylor Sterling Verified account @FatherMcKennaa Feb 14
The ancient Greeks made a psychedelic from toxic fungus, wood ash, & water — and served it to thousands every year for 2,000 years.

A paper published today in Nature showed how.

Plato drank this. Cicero drank this.

The Western world was built on a psychedelic sacrament.
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@YIMBYLAND explaining the pain points around building more affordable housing in Austin. It’s a quagmire that ultimately can be solved with simple solutions. His solution leverages innovative work at @americanhousing.

There were over 40 students from the University of Texas in the audience, and when polled, 0% said they expected to be able to buy a home in Austin within the next 10 years. Only about 5 students thought they might be able to buy one within the next 15 years.

That’s not the Austin my parents grew up in.

Grateful for @TXreasSolutions for producing this great event.
@greghabitat @jakewegmann @ZoQadri @willdavis_yimby @Jojo_Feng @JoshF @Sylvia_Rzep #afordablehousing #austin
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Ford Smith Verified account @fordsmith
This is big. Long overdue but I won’t say that part out loud.

Getting food from real farmers into the school system is actually a shockingly hard thing to do. I have worked on this problem for the past 12 months. Yes, with success, but hard fought success.

Excited to put my bid in on solving this problem.
HHS Rapid Response Verified account @HHSResponse Aug 24
Big news for healthier school meals 🍎🥩

Today, @NIH and @AHRQGov are announcing DEPEND, a new $32.5 million HHS initiative to help schools serve healthier, nutritious food while staying within their budgets.

@SecKennedy: “We need to help them upgrade their kitchens, expand scratch cooking, reduce added sugars and ultra-processed foods, and serve more fresh produce, whole grains, and high-quality protein. We will use rigorous science to build the playbook for how schools across America can transition to real foods affordably.”
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Ford Smith Verified account @fordsmith
Try to save the world and every morning turns into a fully caffeinated respawn at the big boss level
Tim Ferriss Verified account @tferriss Aug 21
Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal.

Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel.

If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.
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