I just completed a semi-annual process of revamping my baseline weekly calendar. This takes weeks (intermittently) to complete. And in truth it's not a weekly calendar—each one covers a 2-week cycle of events, since some meetings are weekly and others are every-other-week (I refuse to say biweekly because it's not clear enough!). The result is … Continue reading Late 2025 calendar Tetris
In the wake of the 2020 George Floyd protests, our local county government made Juneteenth an official holiday. This was followed by the federal government declaring the same thing starting in 2021. But in Franklin County, Ohio there was a parallel decision to delete Columbus Day from the official county holiday calendar. Juneteenth would be … Continue reading Why Juneteenth is better than Columbus Day
I've now been to the last two Code for America Summits (2024 and 2025). But I don't know whether I will return. Maybe? Not sure. Why? Because the signal:noise ratio in the conference feels too low. CfASummit in Oakland, CA in May 2024 I'm a stickler for conference value. My standards are unusually high for … Continue reading What if we built a better Code for America Summit?
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-is-getting-smarter-but-its-hallucinations-are-spiraling This is a re-posting of something I shared on LinkedIn, with minor updates. I'm posting here for my own records and to surface it to readers that don't use LinkedIn very much. Am I seeing things? "Hallucination" is a pejorative term given to #genAI results we feel are wrong. But mathematically, based on the … Continue reading Every LLM result is a “hallucination” and I’m tired of acting like it’s not
A couple weeks back it dawned on me the DOGE raids on federal offices could easily be replicated at State and local levels. You wouldn't even need "Big Balls" to do it personally—Trump could send in the FBI or anyone else with a loose grasp of Constitutional law and start demanding access, control, or wholesale … Continue reading Should local government tech teams prepare for an unwelcome DOGE visit?
Ever since the 2024 election handed Trump his numerically narrow but emotionally broad margin of victory, one of my favorite government thinkers and writers—Jennifer Pahlka, author of Recoding America—has been posting thoughts on her Substack about how this new Trump era might be an opportunity rather than a threat. Here's her latest: Thoughts for inauguration … Continue reading Can the Trump 2.0 era deliver us from ineffective government bureaucracies?
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