Pat Dennis — Democratic opposition researcher, builder
Note: I originally wrote this piece for American Bridge's internal wiki in 2020, before I was president of the organization. It is presented here mostly unmodified from that original form. What do we...
What an asshole Is there anything more silly than people who, against all evidence, wake up on new years day, proclaim "new year - new me!" and go to the gym three times before resuming their old...
Twitter was endless; RSS had a stopping point Before Twitter became my main mode of news discovery, I primarily relied on RSS readers to keep track of news. In a lot of ways, RSS was way better. It...
I'm unusual in the world of politics in that I've long encouraged my staff to have Twitter -- or other social media accounts -- and to actively use them. As I encourage people to move away from the...
Are other people experiencing this? Or just me? I admit that I may be a bit wound up about the latest round of AI demos. But I've spent the last few months with the bizarre feeling of vertigo,...
Mastodon So, here's the thing. This website is created via Jekyll. It involves Ruby. It's configured with Yaml. It's a template somebody else made. I could add this little bit of code to the site,...
Reading David Roth's brilliant essay Everything Is Silicon Valley Now, it's easy to fall into something of a despair pit. I wrote about the current golden age in Epic Boss Behavior....
Perhaps the most interesting thing in the crypto community is the gap between its professed ideals of creating trustless, code-mediated, decentralized finance and its centralized, opaque, fraud-riven...
It's a pleasant early November treat to watch Republicans attack each other, the media, and voters for the party's unexpectedly poor performance in the 2022 midterms. But I have little doubt that, if...
If you're working in electoral politics, you're probably trying to do two things at the same time: First, you're trying to do the thing that you do to help win elections. Second, you're trying to...
So, there's this “We have interfered, are interfering and will continue to interfere.”Russian entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted he interfered in U.S. elections and says he will continue to do...
There's a lot of selection bias in who gets called a "good" or "bad" campaigner, or public speaker, in politics. That selection bias comes from this: most reporters never really watch, or pay...
I'm an opposition researcher, and for most people, that means digging up dirt. And it does. But anybody who does this job long enough learns a painful lesson: information doesn't do anything by...
My pinned thread on Twitter is a running list of things I’ve learned about management over the years. I think it’s pretty good! This document is not that – It’s an excerpt of a document I share with...
With all the Elon Musk-inspired Twitter chaos, I've been thinking about a few things: What would I do if Twitter went away? What do I get from Twitter that I would really lose? One of the first...