Ken Yang

Role: SES Project Driver
Email: kenjamin.yang@gmail.com

Overview

Active project driver for SES/UBI Works initiatives, particularly focused on communications, media strategy, and conservative outreach.

Active Projects (as Driver)

• Newmode v2 Social Sharing (Ready)
• Conservatives for Basic Income Page (Idea)

Past Projects

• S233 Letters Update Email (Complete, 2024-04)
• Feds $2B Critical Minerals SWF (Complete, 2026-03)
• Mike Moffatt The Star delaying having kids (Complete, 2026-03)
• Dave Shapiro Labor/Zero Emails + Social (Complete, 2026-03)
• Toronto Meetup Invitation Emails (Complete, 2026-03)
• Sign up and Banner for Eric Lombardi LVT Meetup (Complete, 2026-02)

Work Focus

• Media monitoring and response
• Social media strategy
• Conservative/libertarian outreach
• Event coordination

[Source: Notion, SES Projects Database, 2026-04-20]

Timeline

• 2026-04-20 | Attended UBI Works meeting, discussed email formatting, NationBuilder payment issues, Action Network transition, and drafting new intro emails. Shared about attending a Jersey Shore-themed birthday party and playing piano. [Source: Zoom Meeting, 2026-04-20]
• 2026-04-23 | Discussed BC Newmode project updates — working on letters/banners, waiting for vacation tracker feedback. Plans to rewrite sign-up email to lead with Floyd’s story and CBC The National. Drafted proposal for in-Congress meetup; messaged Ben about UBI Works presence on Congress materials. Plans to create private Hubot chat channel for Hugh testing. Attributed external resistance to perception of UBI Works as “millionaire tech bros” with libertarian bent. [Source: Zoom Meeting, meetings/ubi-works-meeting-2026-04-23.md, 2026-04-23]
• 2026-04-23 | Floyd gave Ken go-ahead to respond to @RobAtkinsonITIF in influencer-influencing Slack thread — draft options A/B/C were prepared by Hugh. [Source: Slack session, 2026-04-23]
• 2026-04-29 | Ken DM’d Hugh (12:31 PDT) asking to draft a tweet responding to @stelzner_n1150 post: “A 40% decrease in home prices is good for the country.” Hugh returned three LVT-framed draft options (land speculation critique, cheaper-homes-not-crisis, land-as-casino-chip framings). Drafts offered for Ken to pick/refine. [Source: Slack DM thread D0AH7B61G2X, Hugh session 5462c7ba, 2026-04-29]
• 2026-05-07 | Met with Liam re: email marketing pipeline, Action Network migration compliance, T4 tax matter (Frank’s amended T4), and Ottawa meetup planning. Action items: share new pipeline in marketing channel; send UBR Works intro email draft to Liam; draft welcome email sequence + personal letters; send Ottawa meetup group email to Liam/Frank/Brendan; await Frank’s amended T4 by mail. Referenced in 2026-05-07-email-pipeline-t4-tax-ottawa-meetup. [Source: Zoom meeting summary, gmail_id 19e02fe3f16dced9, 2026-05-07]
• 2026-05-08 | Met with Liam re: LVT BC Assessment article and UBCM resolution. Ken to set up EPIC for UBCM resolution angle; reach out to Andrew to help frame LVT business/gentrification objections for Councillor Jeremy and Dave Thompson. Ken to share ChatGPT BC Assessment history conversation with Liam. Referenced in 2026-05-08-lvt-bc-assessment-ubcm-resolution. [Source: Zoom meeting summary, gmail_id 19e0824f94ca69c4, 2026-05-08]

Current Notion Tasks (2026-04-22)

• UBI Works Newmodes Recreate
• Newmode v2 social sharing
• 1Password Migration
• Chris Ford BIEN Proposal
• BC Newmodes
• UW Chatbot
• Sign up Email #1
• The Neighbourhood Group
• Labor/Zero Clips
• Patrick Tuohey LVT quote
• Eric Lombardi Meetup Video Upload & Clips
• new openAI paper calls for national wealth fund, robot taxes, dividends.
• The Tyee UBI April 2026
• Toronto 2026 Meetup RSVP Email
• AI Activist Campaign
• IMF 2024 Report on Alberta Fund
• Update CEOs quote image Requeues
• Green Party Floyd 2021 Clips
• Record Andrew Yang Podcast
• Tyler Meredith Transcribe, Summarize, Notes

Back-links

• ubi-works — partner, leads campaigns
• common-wealth-canada — partner, leads SWF campaign
• canadian-sovereign-wealth-fund-campaign — primary driver
• georgism-land-value-tax — active advocacy
• geoffrey-hinton — hosts Hinton interview on kenyang.ai /notmusic
• 2026-05-07-email-pipeline-t4-tax-ottawa-meetup — email pipeline, Ottawa meetup
• 2026-05-08-lvt-bc-assessment-ubcm-resolution — LVT BC Assessment, UBCM EPIC

Timeline additions

• 2026-04-29 | OpenAI “Public Wealth Fund UBI” proposal tracked by Ken via Bluesky UBI Works account. [Source: Social monitoring session d4a9f77e, 2026-04-29]

Timeline additions (2026-05-27)

• 2026-05-27 | Sent updated zip (commonwealth.ca vanilla) via Slack DM with new /commonwealth and /bclvt HTML. Hugh deployed both pages: uploaded 18 images to Ghost CDN, applied two-card pattern (CSS + body), added page-land.hbs and page-research.hbs bare templates to fix Ghost chrome wrapping on /land and /research pages. All four pages verified live. Logged to Notion changelog. Referenced in commonwealth. [Source: Hugh session 23d234de, Slack DM, 2026-05-27]
• 2026-05-27 | Fundraising/donor strategy meeting — reviewed pitch deck, provided feedback on donor letter, shared progress on Commonwealth.ca MVP concept (Ottawa meetup venue booking is the main blocker, Make Housing Affordable confirmed, Ottawa CLT pending). Action: prepare Ottawa meetup banner/concepts for evening Ops Update; review updated donor letter and fundraising deck. Referenced in 2026-05-27-ubi-works-commonwealth-fundraising. [Source: Zoom meeting summary, gmail_id 19e6a165baf480b9, 2026-05-27]
• 2026-05-27 | Social media & content meeting with Phil Chabot — discussed tax policy framing, social media metrics, Warren Buffett corporate tax framing. Noted that public discourse on tax is often influenced by skepticism toward the messenger rather than the logic. Referenced in 2026-05-27-ubi-works-social-media-ai-content. [Source: Zoom meeting summary, gmail_id 19e6ae478c51664a, 2026-05-27]

Timeline additions (2026-04-29 / 2026-04-30)

• 2026-04-29 | Led social media review with Phil Chabot and Liam Wilkinson — reviewed Mark Carney clip, Conference Board presentation prep, Commonwealth Southern Wealth Fund email, flagged UBI-label branding sensitivity. Referenced in 2026-04-29-ubi-works-social-media-review. [Source: Zoom meeting summary, 2026-04-29]
• 2026-04-29 | UBI Works operations update — 95 RSVPs for Toronto Housing & LVT Meetup, 10x Commonwealth web-traffic surge (>10K visits, 600 petition submissions) post Canada-SWF announcement, “Andrew” chatbot launched on Commonwealth site. Referenced in 2026-04-29-ubi-works-operations-update. [Source: Zoom meeting summary, 2026-04-29]
• 2026-04-30 | Helped Heather Brooks-Hill with 4Waves website submission; planned Toronto conference band performance (~$500/member,$2,500 total goal). Referenced in 2026-04-30-ken-heather-4waves-conference-band. [Source: Zoom meeting summary, 2026-04-30]
• 2026-04-30 | Prep work for Floyd’s meeting with Councillor Jeremy Carver — two-pager prioritizing Georgist movement history + Andrew Rose carbon-rebate-as-Georgist-policy article. Referenced in 2026-04-30-ken-liam-city-councillor-prep. [Source: Zoom meeting summary, 2026-04-30]
• 2026-04-30 | DM’d Hugh a YouTube link to the Victoria BC LVT panel (youtube.com/watch?v=QxEDbypXCOI) asking for Dave Thompson’s LVT quotes. Hugh extracted 5 quotes via Whisper transcription — Thompson is a full LVT endorser articulating land-monopoly + public-investment-capture + 4–6x affordability-ratio arguments. [Source: Hugh session 67740e62, 2026-04-30]
• 2026-04-30 | Instructed Hugh (in agent-hugh Slack) to exclude kenyang.ai from the daily website crawl going forward. [Source: Hugh session ab132a4f, 2026-04-30]
• 2026-05-01 | UBI Works councillor LVT briefing + project updates — action items: (1) outreach to additional councillors incl. Susan Kim and Dave Thomas/Thompson + strategize councillor panel/get-together, (2) publish BC rendition of LVT two-pager on Common Wealth site, (3) send BC-activist and AI-campaign emails to Liam for review. Referenced in 2026-05-01-ubi-works-councillor-lvt-briefing. [Source: Zoom meeting summary, 2026-05-01]
• 2026-05-04 | Meeting with Liam Wilkinson — discussed Action Network migration (testing DNS/email that evening), finishing content cards and intro emails for Commonwealth and VRWorks, building new email pipeline. Also requested Liam/Frank/Brendan provide venue suggestions for upcoming meetup (Ottawa connection — booked lodging in Ottawa for upcoming week). Referenced in 2026-05-04-project-updates-action-network-migration. [Source: Zoom meeting summary, gmail_id 19df3f8322c61ed3, 2026-05-04]
• 2026-05-26 | Worked with Hugh across multiple sessions to deploy/fix UBI Works Commonwealth pages on Ghost CMS. Sent updated zip file (commonwealth.ca (5).zip) with mobile-responsive /commonwealth changes — Hugh deployed it, resolved broken image UUIDs (17 images uploaded to Ghost CDN, 28 fonts inlined as data URIs, viewport meta injected). Sent second zip (commonwealth.ca (6).zip) adding new /bclvt page; Hugh deployed both /commonwealth (updated) and /bclvt (new). Bug fixed: Ghost was wrapping /bclvt in full theme chrome — Hugh added page-bclvt.hbs bare template to the theme zip and redeployed. Both pages verified live. [Source: Slack DM session b5464b88, 2026-05-26]
• 2026-05-26 | In tp-economic-growth channel: asked Hugh to pull quotes from a South Korea UBI pilot article and suggest a tweet. Ken drafted a tweet but introduced a typo (“47%” instead of “4.7%” population growth) — Hugh flagged the error before it went out. Andrew Rose also flagged a grammatical fix. [Source: Slack session d07ee1c0, 2026-05-26]