Richard's Blog

The Richard Lin Center for Kids Who Can’t Read Good and Wanna Do Other Stuff Good Too Our mission? To empower under-resourced youth through literacy, life skills, and confidence-building programs—so they can not only read good , but also do other stuff good too. Why I’m Passionate: As a first generation college student who lived in a rural area, I had access to poor education, in which the average SAT score in my high school was 900 total, I want to find a way to better recreate an education system that teaches and builds a foundation on online learning, using AI to create a stronger education, and helping kids navigate and be creative with their goals. I’ve met too many young people who are intelligent, creative, and full of potential; but get left behind because they struggle with technology literacy or never had the opportunity to develop practical life skills. I believe everyone deserves the tools to not just survive, but thrive. What Makes Us Unique: We’re not just a reading c...

Creating a better world is subjective. I believe that even if you make the world better for one person, you can make the world worse for another, for example, even if you create a great system, idea, or business, there are always people exploiting others for their own gain.  Still, I don’t think that means we shouldn’t try. For me, the first step toward making some kind of positive difference is just helping one person even if that’s through a small act, a helpful app, or a business idea that gives people more control in their lives. For me, I am a big advocate of health, and I personally want help contribute to any health and scientific research, despite me having no medical knowledge at all.  At the end of the day, I know I can’t solve everything or please everyone, but I don't really care as long as our society keeps evolving and innovating.  Ideally, I would like to find a way to make a lot of money to help solve first world problems (unfortunately the world d...

One thing I noticed when I was in college is that everyone has a certain "phrase" that they use frequently. One of my best friends in college (we'll call him Chet Hanks for the duration of this random post, for anonymous reasons), has a very high tendency of saying "Bruh. Bro. Bro. Bro. Bro." in a nonchalant, yet very staccato way. As his friend, I was never aware of him saying that until one of my other boys (some random G). brought it up  After noticing, I felt like it was a very funny thing to do, and it made hanging out with Chet more fun (the dopamine hit). As a close friends of his, we also started say "Bro. Bro BRUHH Bro" to mess with him in good light, and it strengthened our bromance (he also put this friendly bromance thing called a "restraining order" on me). Jokes aside, I learned that I also have certain phrases that I use a lot in my day to day life, and it is a natural way of expressing myself. Since everyone is from different ...