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 […]
Over on Facebook, I saw a post that shared a note that had been sent home to parents of kindergarten kids in the U.S. The note referred to the reading program in place to learn district sight words. This is a program where kids can learn common words that they will then recognize instantly. Words like
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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
We used to look up to you. Hell, we gave you the keys to the Free World. You were our hero. We wanted to be like you. We bought into your culture, your way of life. Your way of being. Yet now? I think we’re breaking up. Sure. Our relationship has been stretched for a
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,
So it’s been a little quiet here the last couple of weeks, as I’ve been revamping not only the presentation/design of this blog, but also launching a new project. As a result, blogging took a little bit of a back seat (at least on here), but I’m done and dusted on getting everything just so,
