Mark Zuckerberg Is Touring America. He Should Start With San Francisco

Mark Zuckerberg wants to hit the trail. For his New Year’s resolution, the Facebook founder is pledging a cross-country trek: a campaign, if you will, to glad-hand with people across all the many states he’s never visited. It’s the Zuck’s personal challenge for 2017, similar to goals he set for himself in previous years, such as learning Mandarin, building an AI for his house (Jarvis), and giving away his stake in his company.

That last item isn’t a resolution, per se, but it might be a prelude to a change in career. “After a tumultuous last year, my hope for this challenge is to get out and talk to more people about how they're living, working and thinking about the future,” he writes on Facebook. Whatever his personal ambitions may be—Facebook founder seems as good as any route to the White House—his resolution is a respectable one. All of us could use to get out more and meet people from other walks of life, especially those of us who work in media and technology. (Facebook represents both and yet neither.)