I’m Christina.

I used to work in venture capital, and then I realized: as the internet seeps into everything, the future belongs to those who code — so I left investing to build things on the internet. If you’re curious for more, I’ll send updates.

A few projects

• Tada Messages, a way for independent creators to keep their community up-to-date.
• Dropbox Paper, team collaboration and communication
• Meet Another Day, a tool to add decoy meetings to your calendar to make time to get things done.
• Ellie, a psychotherapist Slackbot. (Eliza’s younger, hipper cousin)
• Join Startups, lists of open jobs at startups and people interested in jobs at startups.
• Aces, ideas around using the internet to teach and learn programming
• A long paper about how children in rural Tanzania spend their time using World Bank LSMS data.
• More

Some writing

• Build Products about making new things
• Learning Online about building tools for online learning
• Building Android First, about developing Android apps
• Learning to Build, about quitting my job to code
• Notes on M-Pesa about the mobile money service that has higher penetration in Kenya than Facebook has in the US.
• Things that make me excited about technology
• What Comes Next, about a summer visiting tech-company accelerators

Books!

• My bookshelf (programmatic Amazon-only edition)
• Book recommendations
• Books read in 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and back to mid 2008. (What should I read next?)
• Favorite podcasts: Chicago Public Radio, The Economist, Deutsche Welle, NPR, Radio France Internationale, Stanford ETL, and WHYY.
• Predictions about the future

A little design

• An earlier iteration on The Product Sessions with Gary Chou
• Syllabus, assignments, students’ take, and my write-up of the Entrepreneurial Design class Gary and I taught at SVA.
• “A new etiquette for the digital age” (English, Deutsch)

Previously

• Computer Science teacher and tutor as I built Aces
• Founder (of an unsuccessful startup) with Matt Spitz
• Early-stage venture capital at Union Square Ventures in New York City
• Service design work at the Deutsch Telekom Creation Center in Berlin
• Pumps and pelletizers for smallholder farmers with IDE Ethiopia in Ziway
• News stories on East Africa’s technology and business for The Independent in Kampala
• Statistics and a longer report for the ILO TICW project in Bangkok
• Interviews about gacaca and prison parole with LDGL in Kigali

Elsewhere

christinacaci on Twitter, christinac on Github, c on email.