November 10 - 16 📆 My weeknotes capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, often focused on work, but with personal stuff, too. Learn more about weeknotes. I will be brief this week. I am battling a lot of different work tasks in the evenings and weekends right now, and I just … Continue reading 2025 Weeknote 46 : Cliffhanger
This is the podcast I've been waiting for. The new-ish podcast WatchCats got an extended interview with former USDS infosec pro Jonathan Kamens, who joined USDS in summer 2023 and was unceremoniously dumped in the DOGE purge in February. Kamens shares his week-by-week direct experience of the drama in the months following the November election … Continue reading Stunning direct insight into the destruction of USDS from one of her own
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?
November 11 - 17 My “weeknotes” capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, mostly focused on work. Learn more about the weeknotes concept here. One Thought No "thought" this week. Too tired, and I don't have any unique events or insights to share! Five Notes I joined Technologists for the Public Good … Continue reading 2024 Weeknote 46 : 4 days is not enough
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