Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲

Working on climate & civc tech @populus_ai. Building the "climate pulse for your city" at

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

1/8 I just launched a prototype for a Climate Action Platform for Cities. I'm still validating everything, but I didn't get here overnight 👇

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

Isn't it crazy that @nytimes reports on trains as "never turning a profit" whereas we never say the same about publicly funded (aka definitely not profitable) roads which carry less volume in the same amount of space?
https://t.co/YttUEY3GVE

[Populus @populus_ai]

Today, we are thrilled to announce our Series A funding round via @TechCrunch 🚀 to help cities tackle congestion and carbon emissions at their curbs.

https://t.co/3KZcktk1LY

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

When you go on vacation and say OOO, is it because that’s the sound a ghost makes and ghosts disappear?

[Danielle Baskin @djbaskin]

San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge is one of my most favorite train routes in the world. We're so lucky that this is our public transit. 🪄🚄

DALL-E 2 x BART #dalle #dalle2

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

@zachweismann Exactly, 20min will reset your mental exhaustion and give you a bit more clarity than before

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

@zachweismann Nap

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

@jahorne I didn't ride NYC buses for a couple years and used Subways or Citi Bikes instead due of the uncertainty of the bus times and the barrier to figuring it out. The first time I tried it the stops were so confusing for different lines/directions on each side of the street

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

My wife works out twice as much as I do, and we've also agreed that I do the laundry, so this is a very personal issue for me

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

What people who work out twice as much don't tell you is that they also have to do twice as much laundry

[Save Our Compost NYC @SaveNYCCompost]

Please read and contact your city council member 👇🏾

https://t.co/tYRZgBaKux

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

I think @airtable may be my new favorite tool. I'm using it for a personal CRM. Lmk if you have any killer use cases for it, happy to share my new workflow as well with anyone 😊

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

@zachweismann Slowly iterating, but have a clear vision for my next step of providing user-generated series of actions to identify the progress of a policy or some other steps that the user is taking to work on climate locally. Came up with this direction after talking to a few activists.

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

@zachweismann Also, realizing that some of the things we use to "savor" a day are really hurting us. Particularly "distractions" like social media, instead we need to create empty space/boredom to allow the work we do to be more creative and fulfilling

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

@zachweismann This is me every day! I think finding joy in the work that you're doing is important, but also finding tangible ways to get away from it. My hobby is piano, but I still sometimes feel the pull to work after being at a computer most of the day.

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

@BetaNYC @nycSOdata I'm in the slack! And I just added the school of data to my calendar

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

Attended a @BetaNYC hack night last night and came away with a new appreciation for civic tech! I've already learned so much from the community and came away with a richer understanding of how data can make cities better!

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

The stuff in red rises gradually but consistently to take a greater and greater share of income: I SLEEP

The stuff in blue has an immediately noticeable, short term spike after declining for decades: REAL SHIT

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

@jahorne I'm working on Possible Place which addresses this. I would love to talk to you about this sometime, check out https://t.co/GoZNSs4Chk

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

I've learned so much by talking to others about local climate action and hope to make https://t.co/0UhuousFh4 the most obvious way to engage with your city on climate plans, and more importantly climate action. Make sure to subscribe to https://t.co/XFUZHhm1X5 too!

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

I met with @katyaabaz who's writing about local government & public data at https://t.co/XFUZHhm1X5. Her latest newsletter addresses climate plans "Climate action plans are not written with data in mind, which sets us back in holding local governments to their word." ...

[Matt Hoffman 🌍🚲 @theChemedian]

"...People can use the platform to browse target-by-target through their city’s climate commitments. Community organizations can also use the platform to help compile the data from across public sources."