Hey folks, I hope you’re doing well, and wanted to catch you up to speed on some new life happenings. Namely: babies. Two of them at once. Lindsay and I welcomed healthy fraternal twin boys into the world a few months ago. So far, Twin A is big, open, loud and easygoing with his smiles. [ ]
I wanted to write a bit about my partner Lindsay Aranoff and why I m so grateful we found each other. I could talk about the stuff you could discover from the internet (inaugural Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum, curator of a TEDxKids event in Canada, co-founder of a company with the CTO of [ ]
Fitbit has discontinued their Fitbit One step trackers, which seems like a good opportunity to step back and reflect on wearing one for the last decade or so. I ve enjoyed using Fitbit trackers, but the One devices seemed like they broke down too often. I m pretty proud that I ended up earning all the activity-related [ ]
Do you need something to cheer you up? You got it: I should explain this costume a little bit. At the US Digital Service, we do a thing called crab claws. Crab claws is like visual applause you pinch your fingers up and down to say great job or congratulations or way to go. We do [ ]
Cindy Cutts, my wife and best friend, passed away earlier this week. While I was traveling for work recently, Cindy went to visit her family in Omaha, Nebraska. On Sunday, while enjoying time with family, Cindy started having trouble breathing. Her family quickly called 911 and paramedics took Cindy to the hospital, but Cindy lost [ ]
Last week, I passed my one year anniversary as head of the US Digital Service (USDS). So when Mr. Money Mustache asked for an interview, I was delighted to talk about some of the work that the USDS does. If you aren t familiar with Mr. Money Mustache, he writes about a philosophy of badassity in [ ]
A few months ago, I took a leave of absence from Google to do a stint with the US Digital Service. A lot of people know about the US Digital Service because they helped rescue the healthcare.gov website. But you might not realize that the US Digital Service has helped veterans get their health benefits, [ ]
Over the last couple years, I ve seen more and more people in technology trying to make government work better. They re idealists who are also making a large impact. These are people that I respect some of them worked to fix healthcare.gov, for example. From talking to many of them, I can tell you that their energy [ ]
Amit Singhal just announced that he s retiring toward the end of the month. Amit has been a formative part of Google s search team, but he s also a good friend. Last year, after he marked 15 years with Google, I wrote this about Amit s contributions: Amit Singhal, one of the unsung heroes of Google, just celebrated [ ]
I solved a problem today and figured that I d document it for the rest of the world. Every time someone left me a voicemail on Verizon, I would get a cryptic text from Verizon at 900080006202 that looked like //VZWVVM:SYNC:ev=NM;id=1;c=1;t=v;s=1XXXXXXXXXX;dt=18/01/2016 13:40-0900;l=13;dev_t=5 or //VZWVVM:SYNC:ev=MBU;dev_t=5 . Here s what happened. It turns out that Verizon has three kinds of [ ]