Adam Hammer

Roadrunner Venture Studios. Alum @JacksonYale, @SchmidtFutures, @WakeForest, and @GoldmanSachs. Reader. Thinker. Citizen. Views are my own.

[Adam Hammer @M_AdamHammer]

@ericschmidt and @wenschmidt making a powerful commitment to back exceptional people and networks to solve the world’s most pressing problems. Proud to be a part of the @SchmidtFutures team.

[Eric Braverman @eric_braverman]

If one person alone can change the world, just imagine the power of what a network of exceptional people could do to help others – $1B announcement TODAY @Risefortheworld @SchmidtFutures @rhodes_trust Read: https://t.co/RQVwJCQq6J

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are spending $1 billion to find and develop talent. A great idea. Bravo! https://t.co/TQV6rMUYVa

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

US soldier wears the YPJ (Syrian Kurdish Women’s Protection Unit) emblem as a sign of solidarity with the American allies being left behind.

Photo: @Delilsouleman

[Preet Bharara @PreetBharara]

Mayor @PeteButtigieg on religion and children in cages and hypocrisy: excellent.

[Adam Hammer @M_AdamHammer]

@daniel_dsj2110 Great book.

[Adam Hammer @M_AdamHammer]

“Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their valor, and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.”

[Anne-Marie Slaughter🇺🇦 @SlaughterAM]

We have seemingly lost our capacity to BE outraged.

[Adam Hammer @M_AdamHammer]

Totally agree, Nate. Infrastructure is a vital—and bipartisan—cause for the USA. Trump admin should have started there in 2017, not healthcare.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

If you're going tease a speech about unity and bipartisanship, maybe spend more than 20 seconds on infrastructure, which is something Trump might actually be able to do and which could be quite popular?

[Adam Hammer @M_AdamHammer]

@AA_Nassikas @rhersher @NPR Inspiring. Common sense reform. A message about courage for both sides of the aisle.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

For centuries, philosophers have tried to understand how we make decisions and, by extension, what makes any given decision sound or unsound, rational or irrational: https://t.co/IvDbrpr7pr

[Richard Engel @RichardEngel]

A Kurdish frontline commander in Syria asked me after President Trump’s latest tweets on the Middle East: "does he just get up every morning and come up with policy? We are totally confused. Someone should take his phone away."

[Richard N. Haass @RichardHaass]

My sense is that the outpouring of respect and affection for John McCain reflects just not who he is and has been but also the concern that it is not obvious who will be taking his place at a moment in our history we clearly need some profiles in courage. https://t.co/9HHumJNGa6

[Jeff Flake @JeffFlake]

Decency wins

[Andrea Mitchell @mitchellreports]

.@SenFeinstein and @SenJohnMcCain have real affection for each other. She led fight against CIA torture. He was POW cared deeply re issue https://t.co/gFnMW2nip2