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For what it's worth, I pinged someone about it.

For what it's worth, I worked with Dr. Seales while getting my undergrad degree. Happy to vouch that he and his team are great humans. This is such a fascinating problem, and could…

This is a pretty intriguing contrarian view. I recall fielding many such inquiries during my Google days. Of course, ideally every company (and organization) would offer fantastic …

If folks are looking for another Tracy Kidder book, I'd recommend _House_. It's the story of building one house in Massachusetts in 1985 or so. Kidder goes into the life of the buy…

I wrote the first version of SafeSearch, Google's family filter. That led to the insight that Google could be spammed. That led to fights with Google's founders--Sergey thought Goo…

I came here to note the same connection. I forwarded both articles to a spam person at Google.

(Disclosure: I invested in this company at YC back in 2018, when it was Osh’s Affordable Pharmaceuticals) That article is a bit short on details. Some other recent articles I thoug…

For data science, we've seen things from looking at disability claims appeals of Veterans and how those are handled, to looking for anomalies and malicious attacks on login.gov, to…

And if anyone has any questions about the US Digital Service, please ask! It's a really remarkable window of time right now to make government work better for the public using tech…

If you wanted to try a short tour, now is a very good time; things are quite remote-friendly right now. Then when the COVID situation is better, you'd have better information about…

The work we're doing helps everyone from Veterans to medical patients. Making government services responsive, accessible, and transparent is really important right now. Please cons…

I mean, if you wanted to do a short tour (~6-9 months) right now, you could probably start and stay remote for most of that time. In general, it's really useful to be around the ta…

We could really use some folks to help on impactful, important projects if people are willing to help. Thanks!

The PDF above is really good, but there's also this recent segment on CBS if you want to get more context: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-us-digital-service-...

If you're willing to watch a short video, we recently had this segment on CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-us-digital-service-... USDS has been doing a lot of impactfu…

Just to give some examples of the sort of work we're doing recently, we've been assisting the CDC with user research to improve their pages about COVID-19, we've worked with the SB…

We've been helping quite a few folks based on the current COVID-19 situation. There's important work to do in the federal government right now.

I appreciated the allusion to Conway's Law here. I will say that in a government of 2M+ people, there's a ton of problems that are completely non-partisan that everyone would like …

Fun fact: the reason that USDS applicants (who would work within the Executive Office of the President) have to take a drug test goes to a Clinton-era legal battle that went to the…

P.S. If you're looking for some interesting chaos to revitalize your life, have you considered doing a tour of public service? :)

Thanks for all the things you did. The Android jank stuff made a big impression on me--you made the value so clear with your work. And also thanks for the rants when something wasn…

If anyone has any questions, please let us know. We've been working with partners in the federal government on impactful things.

Hey, I would ask her to go ahead and apply--we're always taking applications--and then indicate in the text field that she's closer to a project manager. We have been reworking som…

We should definitely be talking to more folks locally in DC. Are there any meetups that you especially enjoy?

Thanks for asking! On the interview process, there's a resume review stage, then a technical interview. If the technical interview goes well, then there's one more technical interv…