Ancestors

Written by Adrianna Tan on 2024-10-30 at 22:39

I've been doing things that don't scale for at least a decade. When I started my nonprofit in Mumbai in 2012, people told me what I was doing was too small. "You're ONLY changing the lives of 100 children at a time"

The nonprofit still runs (a great local team runs it). We've done more in 12 years than anyone who told us we had no impact.

https://stevenscrawls.com/care-doesnt-scale/

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Written by Adrianna Tan on 2024-10-30 at 22:41

scare = SCALE

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Toot

Written by Adrianna Tan on 2024-10-30 at 22:43

The only validation I need is that whenever I visit parts of Mumbai, there are kids who know that 'singapore didi' will find a way to help them pay for school. 2800 kids now, but I stopped counting. Scaling prematurely and seeing the macro picture works for some people / orgs but I feel it misses out on the individuals in question. I know the stories of the people the org has helped. I know their families. That matters to me.

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Descendants

Written by Adrianna Tan on 2024-10-30 at 23:06

i'm still salty about how when i started doing that work i met someone who told me i should give out micro-loans and take back the money i found to fund kids' education, from the kids, after they grow up

anyway, whoever they are i hope they're suffering the same fate as lambda school

what a grotesque way of thinking

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Written by Sindarina, Edge Case Detective on 2024-10-30 at 22:48

@skinnylatte Impacting even one person in a positive long-lasting manner is already big, and 2800 is massive 🙂💜

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Written by Sindarina, Edge Case Detective on 2024-10-30 at 22:54

@skinnylatte Years ago, when I was a camp counselor for one summer in the US, they gave us a plaque with a group photo and a variation on this quote;

“One hundred years from now

It won't matter

What kind of car I drove

What kind of house I lived in

How much money I had in the bank

Nor what my cloths looked like

BUT

The world may be a little better

Because, I was important

In the life of a child.”

― Forest Witcraft

And that remains very true, however cheesy some people may think it is 😄

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Written by Adrianna Tan on 2024-10-30 at 22:55

@sindarina i love it!

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Written by GunChleoc on 2024-11-02 at 10:18

@skinnylatte @sindarina I volunteer as a software translator for an underrepresented language that has 50k-60k speakers.

The first question everybody asks me: But how many people are actually using this?

Wrong question.

The important question is: what does it mean to those who do use it?

A lot.

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Written by roundcrisis (a.k.a Andrea ) 😹 🦙 on 2024-10-30 at 22:52

@skinnylatte sustainable growth! Very nice actually!

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Written by Jay on 2025-01-24 at 21:12

@skinnylatte TIL you have an intimate connection to my city in the best possible way.

Ty for doing it.

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