Write in Kin & Ring it in

The most disruptive technology is peace. After all, we spend 1/3 of all our resources on defense, largely the implements of murder when the primary theatre of war is on the web in the form of pysops and cyber-physical attacks on our infrastructure, unravelling us from within. We can still flex on 1/5th of that spend AND achieve a more peaceful world by ushering in an era of unbridled prosperity where everyone wins and chills. Here’s a conceptual glance at what might be thought of as 3 keys to world frickin peace.

Don’t “take a long, hard look in the mirror,” rather unfurrow that brow, it makes your forehead wrinkle anyhow stressing yourself out like that. Give yourself some grace.. maybe a wink too and a nod too 😉  Look, the anger and discontent we all feel right now feels justified – it very well may be, but why let that control your inner state. That’s your domain – nothing should hinder your peace of mind. From that place of resolve, we can suspend hasty judgement of others, their perspectives and motives. We all have a lot more in common than meets the eye.

What if it was all just a big misunderstanding? Like a really BIG one. Quite the understatement you might say, in light of all human pain, warfare, fear and uncertainty.  Build a wall? We need a bridge, to Bridge THE Great Big Misunderstanding. We can mend the rifts at home and abroad through traditional means aided by “trust-enhancing technologies” that have emerged over the last decade. I’m uniquely equipped to put these innovations to work to create understanding while restoring trust backed up by math.

I legally changed my name Kin, just Kin – think Cher or Prince – no last name, for this express purpose to win on the write in. Just write Kin on the ballot. And if my name ain’t Garett Thomas Laugavitz Paine, you’re gonna see some common sense action outta Washington when I’m posted up, with rather uncommon ingenuity to boot. Who am I..?

You don’t need another billionaire in office, you want a poet-skater-marketer-tenor millennial with audacity,  someone who can get everyone singing Happy Birthday in tune.

I once gave soup to the Soup Nazi (Seinfeld), won a staring contest with a leopard deep in the bush of Botswana and can blow spit bubbles and catch them. OK, the lie is they’re all true.

I’m holding gumbo nights around the country as I walk for office on foot, train and scooter. We’re gonna restore civility over a meal and make the greatest gumbo ever told.  Help host one!

My marketing work sold $8,000 trash cans to Donald Trump, and I don’t even believe in garbage. All I see are resources. They were outdoor furnishings for his golf courses made of recycled milk jugs. I will turn trash into treasure, trap carbon emissions and ween us off this disposable lifestyle.

Imagine if teachers didn’t have to do 3 jobs: curriculum, teaching and grading but could focus on teaching. We will build a wiki-curriculum, an open source repository of teaching guides and tools that can be adapted and influenced by parents as well. We have the technology to partly automate grading now as well freeing up their precious time for “meeting students where they’re at” and finding ways to stoke their imaginations around what already interests them. Finally, education at large needs to take a page out of the startup playbook and think MVP – minimum viable products. We will enable ways to apply weekly and monthly assignments into paid work, “School Work” effectively paying kids to learn and adding to the GDP rather than costing more money. Money doesn’t solve problems, industry does.

The USPS falls under the auspices of the Executive Branch hence my first executive order: dMail, a digital-physical postal service that will solve the “tragedy of the commons” problem of SPAM email while 10x’ing value for recipients. ‘Free’ was the fatal flaw of email. dMail imposes digital postage on commercial senders while giving consumers the option to have documents printed and shipped on-demand, same-day or even on the hour. dMail is the backbone of a radical new vision I call dCommerce. With trusted printing and decentralizing the mail, we could cut carbon emissions dramatically. We aren’t automating away jobs either. The USPS will go from the 3rd largest employer to the 1st in a gig economy fashion that protects workers and supercharges the economy. 

Currently, lawmaking is a meat grinder in a dimly lit storeroom with a rodent problem. Kin’s policy, the GET OUR ACT TOGETHER ACT will create a seamless version control system for new bills with responsive “compressable text” and audio snippets for lawmakers to actually digest what they’re signing into law. No more reams of paper for Senators to “cram” like it’s the night before semester finals. This will create a feedback loop for real-time public comments on laws, letting citizens easily peer into and understand the laws they are subject to. Without that transparency.. we’re the subjects to outright tyranny through obfuscation.

The FDA didn’t even get bottled water right. Great, there’s microplastics in all of us, bravo boys. Did you know the FDA regulates cheese pizza but not pepperoni? Howsa bout we move the F to the end of the USDA to make it the United States Department of Awesome Food (USDAF). The NEW Smart Drug Administration will safely streamline lifesaving therapies as the status quo bureaucracy is killing people with inaction. This is a time to focus. The first order of business for the USDAF will be deploying the FOOD CHAIN, a new vision for real-time data on food quality and distribution, helping prevent food-borne illnesses and much more.

I mapped a key issue or cause to every letter of the alphabet, A – Z, starting with Affordable Housing is Where the H.E.A.R.T. Is: Home Equity Accessibility through Residential Tokens, creating fractional ownership so that anyone can get in on the action of real estate appreciation. I propose the Border S.P.O.N.G.E. and also aim to “Make C.L.I.M.A.T.E. Cool Again.”