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I’m writing to you from one of the countless border crossing lines I’ve waited on in the last two weeks. I’m on my way to Poland to pick up several more suitcases of specialty medicine from Sauveteurs Sans Frontières, then I’ll take it back to Ukraine for onward delivery to the east. I’ve gotten pretty…

I’m back in Ukraine. In the last few weeks, my work here has become a full time job, on top of the day job I already have. Doing the first from 8am-3pm and the second from 3pm-midnight has left me little time to write. Now I find myself in a relatively quiet spot on a…

Sometime around 2:10am in the morning last night, as air raid sirens were blaring in Lviv along with almost every other region in the country, I found myself asking myself the same question that Gillian Anderson’s Margaret Thatcher asked when she found herself watching Scottish festival games in The Crown: “What on earth am I doing here?”…

In one of his most memorable keynotes, Steve Jobs once told the graduates of Stanford University “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” I’m thinking about this because I’m back in Europe again, and it’s all because I cofounded a tech company in Chicago in 2008. There, we…

I’m finally back in NYC and after a couple days of returning back to “normal,” including catching up at my day job and taking some R&R, I’m ready and excited to tell you about the next phase of our fledgling operation on the ground in Ukraine and Poland. First off, let me profusely thank each…

I’m writing to you from a physical and metaphorical distance that finally is giving me the opportunity to think about what I’ve seen in the past week on the ground in Ukraine and on the border in Poland. I can already say with confidence that this has been one of the most impactful and eye-opening…

Good morning from Warsaw. I took the night off last night, and saw a Ukrainian friend from Lviv who told me her story of leaving with her mom shortly after she woke up to the sound of explosions. She and her mom spent 3 days in their car waiting at the border to cross, which…

I’m back from Ukraine, safely in a cheap hotel about an hour north of the border. I go to Warsaw tomorrow to organize one last major shipment to Lviv before I depart back for New York. I’m happy to report that our humanitarian aid supply chain is officially up and running! As of today, our first…

It’s a little past 6am in the morning and I haven’t slept since 9am yesterday. I’ve learned more about logistics in the last 21 hours than I ever thought I needed to know. I certainly didn’t think I’d find myself in a war zone trying to tie off the loose ends of a supply chain…

I’m writing to you from a town you’ve never heard of on the Polish side of the border with Ukraine, a town so small that it took an hour of driving through dark country streets to get here with no other cars on the road. I would tell you the name of the town, but…