I've always found the act of writing to be clarifying—and the old adage about writing is that you just have to start writing, so here we go. My goal here is to have a space to ruminate on topics in and beyond civic tech while capturing the
As my mileage increases (slowly) ahead of the Twin Cities Marathon this October—and California International Marathon after it, in December—I’ve been thinking of Matt Cutts. For those who don’t know Matt, he was the administrator of the U.S. Digital Service, first in an acting capacity
In my time in the civic tech ecosystem, I’ve benefitted immensely from colleagues, friends, and mentors offering to connect me to people in their networks and increasingly I find myself in the position where I can pay their generosity forward. Many such emails later—in both directions—I’ve