Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. We are all born. Then we "dash" to the "finish line". During the "dash" - we live, love, LEarn, handle our business, and tell our own stories. This is "us" ...

Dear Hannah - My name is Derrick. My name means "leader of my people". I am the brother from another planet. "My people" do not always know that they are "my people". I teach *students*, not *subjects*. This is my mission statement. I have realized that this is a "loaded" statement. See - I have a lot of students who do not know that they are "my students". I have a lot of students who live in what I call "Lie-Lie Land". They are not honest with themselves. Their "lie" is their "truth" ... Love, Daddy

In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 1.13 "TRANSCRIPT": ... 52m46sec ... I learned about the online world by looking over shoulders in the computer lab ... I looked over Jerry Volcy's shoulders a lot ... he introduced me to Netscape ... how can you create a software tool to get onto the Internet from home? ... this is like watching the invention of the car or hammer ... 56m55sec ...