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Aneesh Chopra, America's first-ever Chief Technology Officer under Obama, joins The Gist to assess Elon Musk's rebranded takeover of government tech via “Doge.” He outlines how the US Digital Service began under Obama, evolved during Trump's first term, and now—chainsaw and hat aside—retains surprising policy continuity across administrations. Plus, even as a Colorado hate crime occurs under the banner of "Free Palestine", it's important to remember that violent people perpetuate violent acts, not impassioned, or even wrong sentiments. And in the spiel - can we please put an end to the term "Stochastic Terrorism"? Produced by Corey WaraProduction Coordinator Ashley KhanEmail us at thegist@mikepesca.comTo advertise on the show, contact ad-sales@libsyn.com or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGistSubscribe to The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_gSubscribe to The Gist Instagram Page: GIST INSTAGRAMFollow The Gist List at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025Today, the Supreme Court allows DHS to reinstate secretary Kristi Noem's order ending temporary status for Venezuelans resulting in the single largest mass illegalization event in US history; Judge Beryl Howell stops Trump from dismantling the US Institute of Peace; a top CBS executive has resigned amid Trump's political pressure; House Republicans manage to get the Billionaire Bailout Bill out of committee; the far right Romanian candidate for president has LOST his election; and Allison delivers your Good News.Thank You, Fay NutritionYou can qualify to see a registered dietitian for as little as $0 by visiting FayNutrition.com/dailybeansMSW Media, Blue Wave California Victory Fund | ActBlueGuest: Merici Vinton - Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, former DOGE USDS employee.Merici Vinton - Federation of American Scientists@merici.bsky.social - BlueSkyStories:CBS News chief steps down amid tensions over Trump lawsuit | NBC NewsSupreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected status for thousands of Venezuelans | NBC NewsHouse Republicans Advance Trump's ‘Big, Beautiful Bill' | The New York TimesJudge bars Trump administration from shutting peace institute that sought to end violent conflicts | AP NewsRomania's pro-EU candidate beats hard-right rival to win presidential election | CNN Good Trouble: Members of the general public have been engaged and supportive as attorneys and law students work to resist the Trump Administration's attack on the legal profession. Though the Administration's attacks are multi-faceted, a key area of focus has been intimidating corporate firms through unconstitutional Executive Orders designed to block them representing clients the Administration fears. When firms have fought these orders, they've won. Let them know how you feel.Use and Share the toolkit: Bit.ly/baddecisionmakers - Google DriveShare the video - How to make lawyers who collaborate with Tr*mp face backlashFind Upcoming Demonstrations And Actions:50501 MovementJune 14th Nationwide Demonstrations - NoKings.orgIndivisible.orgFrom The Good NewsOur Patriotism Versus Their Betrayal - My Latest Video On Our Perilous Political MomentHow to Fight Fascism in America — with Timothy Snyder | Prof G ConversationsTHE MOLOSSUS DOG OF WAR | YouTubeClaudia Schmidt sings "Enough Already" Mega Happy Hour Zoom Call - you can interact with not just me and Harry Dunn, Andy McCabe, and Dana Goldberg. They'll all be there this Friday 5/23/2025 at 7 PM ET 4 PM PT. Plus, you'll get these episodes ad free and early, and get pre-sale tickets and VIP access to our live events. You can join at patreon.com/muellershewrote for as little as $3 a month. Federal workers - feel free to email me at fedoath@pm.me and let me know what you're going to do, or just vent. I'm always here to listen.Share your Good News or Good Trouble:https://www.dailybeanspod.com/good/ Check out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Subscribe for free to MuellerSheWrote on Substackhttps://muellershewrote.substack.comFollow AG and Dana on Social MediaDr. Allison Gill Substack|Muellershewrote, BlueSky|@muellershewrote , Threads|@muellershewrote, TikTok|@muellershewrote, IG|muellershewrote, Twitter|@MuellerSheWrote,Dana GoldbergTwitter|@DGComedy, IG|dgcomedy, facebook|dgcomedy, IG|dgcomedy, danagoldberg.com, BlueSky|@dgcomedyHave some good news; a confession; or a correction to share?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:The Daily Beans on Apple PodcastsWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?Supercasthttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/Patreon https://patreon.com/thedailybeansOr subscribe on Apple Podcasts with our affiliate linkThe Daily Beans on Apple Podcasts
Today marks the 100th day of the second Trump administration. It also means it’s been about 100 days since Elon Musk transformed the US Digital Service into what he and Trump contend is a government cost-cutting initiative named after Musk’s favorite crypto coin. With the Trump news cycle more intense than ever and Musk the fastest moving part of it, today’s episode of Elon, Inc. attempts to make sense of the past three-and-a-half months. What we do know is that the “Department of Government Efficiency” has only cut a fraction of the $2 trillion Musk initially promised, and that the South Africa native’s pledge of full transparency has come to nearly naught. Meanwhile, the entire effort is the subject of furious litigation over its arguably unconstitutional nature. Host David Papadopoulos gathers Max Chafkin, Dana Hull and Bloomberg technology reporter Kurt Wagner to break down Musk’s activities as his 130 days as a special government employee nears a close. What has been Musk’s biggest win? Biggest loss? What event has been the most surprising or under reported? The gang has its work cut out for them. Also, David, Dana and Max zero in on the robotaxi. Supposedly launching in Austin, Texas, in June, much of Tesla’s still-high valuation is bound up with Musk’s idea of a self-driving cab, and a lot of time was dedicated to it during last week’s Tesla earnings call. After years of promises, will the robotaxi actually see the light of day? How big of a fleet are we talking about? Will it survive an already crowded market? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Across the United States and in some cities abroad yesterday, protestors took to the streets to resist the policies of US President Donald Trump. Dubbed the "Hands Off" protests, over 1,400 events took place, including in New York City, where protestors called for billionaire Elon Musk to be ousted from his role in government and for an end to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has gutted government agencies and programs and sought to install artificial intelligence systems to purportedly identify wasteful spending and reduce the federal workforce.In this conversation, Justin Hendrix is joined by four individuals who are following DOGE closely. The conversation touches on the broader context and history of attempts to use technology to streamline and improve government services, the apparent ideology behind DOGE and its conception of AI, and what the future may look like after DOGE. Guests include:Eryk Salvaggio, a visiting professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a fellow at Tech Policy Press;Rebecca Williams, a senior strategist in the Privacy and Data Governance Unit at ACLU;Emily Tavoulareas, who teaches and conducts research at Georgetown's McCourt School for Public Policy and is leading a project to document the founding of the US Digital Service; and Matthew Kirschenbaum, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland.
Paris Marx is joined by Kate Green and Milo to discuss how Elon Musk's DOGE is dismantling the US Digital Service and the consequences that has on really improving service delivery in government.Kate Green and Milo are former US Digital Service engineers.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham.Also mentioned in this episode:Find out more about We The Builders and read perspectives of federal workers.USDS workers have resigned en masse from DOGE, and Musk's agency has fired many of those who haven't left.The General Services Administration has also cut the 18F technology team, and has been doing mass layoffs at the Technology Transformation Service. Support the show
On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Kate Green and Milo to discuss how Elon Musk's DOGE is dismantling the US Digital Service and the consequences that has on really improving service delivery in government. Kate Green and Milo are former US Digital Service engineers.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
According to a Pew Research poll, over 40% of adults in the United States are considered to be digitally illiterate, and while America's crumbling transportation infrastructure often makes headlines, its digital infrastructure is equally as out of date. Organizations from the IRS, to the healthcare system are still relying on technology from the 80s or earlier. This is what today's guest is out to remedy. Jennifer Pahlka is the former US Deputy Chief Technology Officer under the Obama Administration and helped found the US Digital Service. She was also the Executive Director of the International Games Developers Association, and founded the non-profit Code for America, which aims to improve the digital systems within government. Jennifer's most recent book “Recoding America: Why Government is Failing in the DIgital Age and How We can Do Better” pulls from her experience in the tech sector and government and the importance of government bodies understanding how technology affects the people they're meant to serve. In an age where mobile apps, A.I., and metaverses are all the rage, the conversation we had with Jennifer is an important one that all leaders need to consider. This is another episode you're not going to want to miss, so with that…let's bring it in!
In this insightful podcast episode, we feature guests Andrea Fletcher, Chief Digital Strategy Officer, and Remy DeCausemaker, Open Source Lead at the Digital Service at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), discussing the critical role of digital technology in shaping healthcare strategies within the U.S. government. The discussion delves into the intersections of technology, healthcare, and government strategies, emphasizing the significance of open source collaboration, addressing challenges, and preparing for the future of healthcare systems. Hear fresh perspectives on AI, privacy-enhancing technologies, and the importance of AI transparency in policies.
In this episode of The CX Tipping Point Podcast, Martha Dorris spoke with Noreen Hecmanczuk, a Senior Advisor for Strategic Engagements and Communications to the Federal CIO, Clare Martorana. In this episode, Noreen shared her experiences that crossed numerous federal agencies and led to an opportunity as a White House Fellow, later joining the US Digital Service where she recognized the transformative potential of technology in government services. As a senior advisor to the Federal CIO, Noreen convenes technology leaders to advance the strategic use of technology and improve the public's experience with the government. In the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer, she develops strategies for technology modernization and mission delivery, driving a path to digital transformation and overseeing the responsible management of over $120 billion of federal IT spending.Noreen's achievements benefit the public by championing simple, seamless and secure experiences when interacting with government services. Congress requested OMB's plan to maximize the impact of funds allocated for technology modernization, and Noreen led the development of the Federal IT Operating Plan, ensuring wise investments that create the most impact for the American people. Additionally, she played a key role in allocating $100 million towards a secure, modern, digital-first government experience, engaging CX experts from across the federal government to maximize the impact of project proposals.From ensuring food safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fostering workforce development at the Mine Safety and Health Administration, Noreen has made significant contributions throughout her career. Noreen shares her insights in working across federal agencies, working with political appointees to achieve a common vision, and the leadership and vision needed to lead agencies towards reducing the Administrative burdens of outdated policies. Congratulations to Noreen for her 2023 Service to the Citizen Award!
In this episode host Professor Stephen Goldsmith interviews Jennifer Pahlka, former Deputy Chief Technology Officer for President Obama and founder of Code for America. They discuss Jennifer's new book, "Recoding America," which focuses on how to approach big and small projects in the digital age, the challenges of government technology, and the need for a reevaluation of how we think about and invest in government. Pahlka shares insights on successful projects, the importance of collaboration between tech and policy experts, and the need to rethink bureaucratic processes to achieve better public outcomes.Music credit: Summer-Man by KetsaAbout Data-Smart City SolutionsData-Smart City Solutions, housed at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, is working to catalyze the adoption of data projects on the local government level by serving as a central resource for cities interested in this emerging field. We highlight best practices, top innovators, and promising case studies while also connecting leading industry, academic, and government officials. Our research focus is the intersection of government and data, ranging from open data and predictive analytics to civic engagement technology. We seek to promote the combination of integrated, cross-agency data with community data to better discover and preemptively address civic problems. To learn more visit us online and follow us on Twitter.
The US Digital Service has a fascinating structure: it comprises nearly 250 people, all of whom serve two-year stints developing apps, improving websites, and streamlining government services. You could call USDS the product and design consultancy for the rest of the government. The Obama administration launched the USDS in 2014, after the disastrous rollout of healthcare.gov and the tech sprint that saved it. USDS administrator Mina Hsiang explains to Decoder how it all works, and what she hopes it can do next. Links: Here's Why Healthcare.gov Broke Down (2013) Obamacare's 'tech surge' adds manpower to an already-bloated project (2013) Decoder: Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet Jeff Bezos Confirmed the "Question Mark Method" A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs Tech to Gov U.S. Digital Corps Presidential Innovation Fellows AI.gov United States Digital Service Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23761681 Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today's episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week, The Buzz presents a session from ELC 2014.Mikey Dickerson initially came to the federal government on a temporary basis as part of the team assigned to rescue the unfortunate Healthcare.gov rollout in 2013. Less than a year later, he was tapped to serve as the first administrator of the fledgling US Digital Service, which sought to bring a modern service design and delivery approach to the rest of the federal government. Just months after his appointment, Mikey sat down with Francis Rose to briefly discuss the origins and progress of the new agency. This conversation then led into a panel discussion on government service delivery with other members of the federal government.Panelists:Kevin Cooke, former Deputy CIO at the Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentKevin Mahoney, former Chief Human Capital Officer at the Department of CommerceMarina (Martin) Nitze, former CTO, Department of Veterans AffairsDavid Robinson, former Associate Adminstrator, Mission Support Bureau at FEMAMelisa Starinsky, former Chancellor of the VA Acquisition AcademyFor more from ACT-IAC, follow us on LinkedIn or visit http://www.actiac.org.
Join Nate Matherson as he sits down with Camille Ricketts for the fifteenth episode of the Optimize podcast. Camille is the Operating Partner focused on all things marketing, brand, and communications for Emergence Capital, the longest-standing venture firm focused on B2B software. She's also known for being Notion's 10th hire, joining Notion as the first marketer when the team was just 10 people, and running content and marketing for First Round Capital, where she founded and built First Round Review. In this episode, Camille and Nate discuss her extensive background from her time with First Round Capital to Notion's 10th employee to becoming a member of The White House's US Digital Service. Camille gets tactical, sharing strategies and tips for creating user onboarding and tutorial content, generating case studies, and leveraging cross-functional teams. As a special bonus, Camille and Nate dive deep into Notion's go-to-market approach, revealing insights into building successful creator marketing campaigns. Closing out the episode is our popular lightning round of questions! For more information please visit www.positional.com, or email us at podcast@positional.com.Resources:Join Positional's Private Beta Here: www.positional.comCheck in with Nate on LinkedIn & TwitterCheck in with Camille on LinkedIn & Twitter & Emergence CapitalWhat to Listen For:02:30 Camille's Background04:49 Experience being Notion's 10th employee05:54 Was content always a priority at Notion?09:00 How do we create and distribute tutorial content?11:34 Driving success with pre-built templates for users13:30 What is a Director of Community?15:15 Notion's GTM strategy: Influencer Marketing21:26 Where did SEO fit in Notion's GTM strategy?23:12 How do you get a customer to agree to do a case study?25:35 Cross-functional teams drive the best results for content marketing25:58 Camille's White House experience (US Digital Service)27:38 Should VCs be creating content?28:39 Lightning question round
As detailed in the President's Management Agenda and Executive Order 14058, a major priority of the current administration has been to improve government service delivery to the American public. The challenges of receiving federal benefits have been well-documented - from confusing paper applications to unclear responsibilities between multiple federal agencies - and so a reform effort is underway to make service delivery faster, more effective, and more human-centered than ever before. Out of this effort has grown the Life Experiences Project - a framework that focuses on the major life events where Americans have the greatest need to interface with the federal government to help them navigate these challenging moments. These are make-or-break opportunities where a positive experience accessing services will do a world of good, but a bad experience can be ruinous. In this miniseries, The Buzz will be exploring the five major life experiences that CX teams from the US Digital Service focused on as a part of this project in collaboration with their agency partners. This week, we're kicking things off by looking at how new parents interact with the federal government to help them handle the trials and joys of having a child. We're joined by OMB's Federal Customer Experience Lead Amira Boland to introduce us to the framework, as well as Maya Mechenbier, the Birth and Early Childhood Project Lead from the US Digital Service. Resources:Having a Child and Early Childhood Overview at Performance.govJoin the team at USDS!Executive Order 14058 on Customer ExperienceThe Biden-Harris Management AgendaSubscribe on your favorite podcast platform to never miss an episode! For more from ACT-IAC, follow us on LinkedIn or visit http://www.actiac.org.
Dana Chisnell joined the US Digital Service as a Policy Design Researcher and General Problem Solver. Her current challenge is designing for language access. The US government makes all kinds of information available in multiple languages, depending on the program, mostly in print. This is a logistics problem, but also a power/equity issue. How do we design for it? And how do you get started in this kind of government work? Presenter: Dana Chisnell (US DHS) Moderator: Nancy Frishberg Dana Chisnell’s website Dana Chisnell on LinkedIn Society for Technical Communication Center for Civic Design United States Digital Service Topics include – technical writing – document design – government policy – US Digital Service – civic design – language accessThe post Episode #24: Language Access to Government (LCL Audio) first appeared on Linguistics Careercast.
Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International , Aaron Bishop, CISO Air Force & Spaceforce , Scott Davis, CISO and Executive Director of Cybersecurity US DHS Customs and Border protection, Mitch Herckis, Acting Director of the Office of the Federal CIO, Executive office of the President, Elizabeth Schweinsberg, Digital Service Expert at US Digital Service, will discuss how organizations can implement zero trust to satisfy federal mandates.
Redesigning Government for a Faster Future GUEST: Jennifer PahlkaDESCRIPTION:This week The Futurists speak with Jennifer Pahlka, the founder of Code for America. Jennifer served in Barack Obama's White House as the US Deputy Chief Technology Officer where she launched the US Digital Service. In this episode, Jennifer reveals the tactics to surmount the myriad obstacles that thwart government agencies when they seek to deploy digital technology to improve the delivery of services to citizens. JENNIFER'S WEBSITES:Twitter: https://twitter.com/pahlkadot?s=20Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpahlka/Recoding America: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250266774/recodingamericaCode For America: https://codeforamerica.org/people/jennifer-pahlka/ Recoding AmericaWhy Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better Book Details A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for AmericaJust when we most need our government to work—to decarbonize our infrastructure and economy, to help the vulnerable through a pandemic, to defend ourselves against global threats—it is faltering. Government at all levels has limped into the digital age, offering online services that can feel even more cumbersome than the paperwork that preceded them and widening the gap between the policy outcomes we intend and what we get.But it's not more money or more tech we need. Government is hamstrung by a rigid, industrial-era culture, in which elites dictate policy from on high, disconnected from and too often disdainful of the details of implementation. Lofty goals morph unrecognizably as they cascade through a complex hierarchy. But there is an approach taking hold that keeps pace with today's world and reclaims government for the people it is supposed to serve. Jennifer Pahlka shows why we must stop trying to move the government we have today onto new technology and instead consider what it would mean to truly recode American government.
This week The Futurists speak with Jennifer Pahlka, the founder of Code for America. Jennifer served in Barack Obama's White House as the US Deputy Chief Technology Officer where she launched the US Digital Service. In this episode, Jennifer reveals the tactics to surmount the myriad obstacles that thwart government agencies when they seek to deploy digital technology to improve the delivery of services to citizens.
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Earlier this year, the United Nations Development Program released a special report entitled “New Threats to Human Security in the Anthropocene”, which details some of the unique, large-scale issues faced by human society in the 21st century. These are problems that require collective, comprehensive action. Unfortunately, such action has been difficult to achieve.A reason for this is the global decline in institutional trust - the kind that facilitates buy-in and civil participation from communities. When institutions lose trust, the people they are supposed to serve feel less secure and less willing to engage with them, which makes it even more difficult to promote collective action and social cohesion, further worsening the situation, which further degrades trust, and so on. Between a government and its people, the building blocks for this trust relationship are the tiny, everyday interactions that citizens have with government services. So how can we best design these services to build trust?Joining the Buzz this week to discuss is Eddie Hartwig, the former Deputy Administrator of the US Digital Service, and currently the Chairman and Partner of the Service Design Collective.Follow Humans of Public Service on Instagram!Register for ELC 2022 here!Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform to never miss an episode! For more from ACT-IAC, follow us on Twitter @ACTIAC or visit http://www.actiac.org.
In this episode of the Acquisition Talk podcast, I host an amazing panel on contracting practices for modern software with Florence Kasule (Director of Procurement, US Digital Service), Col. Eric Obergfell (Director of Contracts, Air Force Research Lab), and Caitlin Dohrman (President/GM, Improbable US National Security and Defense). The conversation hits a wide range of important topics that jump off of Mason GovCon's recent Acquisition Next report, including: - How defense contracts can align with agile/devops principles - Whether fixed-price contracts work for modular efforts - The role of leadership and training in business transformation - The potential for the "as a service" model - Tradeoffs between multiple award IDIQs and Commercial Solutions Openings This podcast was produced by Eric Lofgren. You can follow me on Twitter @AcqTalk and find more information at https://AcquisitionTalk.com
This week we hear from the awe-inspiring Poulomi Damany, who I first heard speak at a virtual event back in 2018 when she was the VP of Product Management at Credit Karma. Not only has she since moved to the role of General Manager of Assets and Tax at Credit Karma, (#levelup) but she has continued to be one of the leading women of color in tech that I admire!Prior to joining Credit Karma, Poulomi spent a year with the US Digital Service, the swat team that came in to rescue Healthcare.gov. She learned that bad technology was truly holding people back from getting the basic health services they needed and committed to being an agent for change in the private sector by leveraging technology to help improve people's lives.In the episode, Poulomi mentions this Qualtrics Study on behalf of Credit Karma with lots of data and insights into gen z and how they seek financial advice on social media: https://www.creditkarma.com/about/commentary/gen-z-turns-to-tiktok-and-instagram-for-financial-advice-and-actually-takes-it-study-findsCheck out the full playlist of podcast interviews on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBqtkN0VZ5hRYos5EHdGJfRDc5r9w6u_wLet's connect:FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/missbehelpful/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/missbehelpful/BUSINESS INQUIRIES: Missbehelpful@gmail.com★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
John McAfee, Peloton, Bitcoin KOBOL Developers Wanted: Matt Cutts Discusses Working with the US Digital Service The bureaucracy of Government Meetings John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison Cell NYT hit piece on Pichai for being too thoughtful What Has Google Done Lately? Google Sleep Tracking Has Helped Stacey Tech Giants, Fearful of Proposals to Curb Them, Blitz Washington With Lobbying - The New York Times Industry groups send letter opposing anti-tech legislation Klobuchar suspicious of Matter When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That's a Moray - The New York Times Squatch Films Bold. Innovative. Stinky. Galaxy Chromebook Go launches w/ 14-inch display, Intel Celeron, more A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance - Rest of World Peloton Tread owners now forced into monthly subscription after recall Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive' Samsung is 'reimagining smartwatches' at its MWC event on June 28th Texas homeowners startled by "hijacked" thermostats China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans - Global Times South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin Google Changelog: New classroom capabilities for Chromebooks Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation, donates $4.1 billion PICKS Stacey: Paced walking on Google Fit Leo: Brave Search Jeff's Number: Half of Apple's commission comes from people spending $450+/month Matt: You Think You Know Me card game Ant: Wanderers Photo Workshop If you're thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/ 1-800-273-8255 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Guest: Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com/twit att.com/activearmor untuckit.com and use code TWIT
John McAfee, Peloton, Bitcoin COBOL Developers Wanted: Matt Cutts Discusses Working with the US Digital Service The bureaucracy of Government Meetings John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison Cell NYT hit piece on Pichai for being too thoughtful What Has Google Done Lately? Google Sleep Tracking Has Helped Stacey Tech Giants, Fearful of Proposals to Curb Them, Blitz Washington With Lobbying - The New York Times Industry groups send letter opposing anti-tech legislation Klobuchar suspicious of Matter When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That's a Moray - The New York Times Squatch Films Bold. Innovative. Stinky. Galaxy Chromebook Go launches w/ 14-inch display, Intel Celeron, more A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance - Rest of World Peloton Tread owners now forced into monthly subscription after recall Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive' Samsung is 'reimagining smartwatches' at its MWC event on June 28th Texas homeowners startled by "hijacked" thermostats China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans - Global Times South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin Google Changelog: New classroom capabilities for Chromebooks Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation, donates $4.1 billion PICKS Stacey: Paced walking on Google Fit Leo: Brave Search Jeff's Number: Half of Apple's commission comes from people spending $450+/month Matt: You Think You Know Me card game Ant: Wanderers Photo Workshop If you're thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/ 1-800-273-8255 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Guest: Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com/twit att.com/activearmor untuckit.com and use code TWIT
John McAfee, Peloton, Bitcoin COBOL Developers Wanted: Matt Cutts Discusses Working with the US Digital Service The bureaucracy of Government Meetings John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison Cell NYT hit piece on Pichai for being too thoughtful What Has Google Done Lately? Google Sleep Tracking Has Helped Stacey Tech Giants, Fearful of Proposals to Curb Them, Blitz Washington With Lobbying - The New York Times Industry groups send letter opposing anti-tech legislation Klobuchar suspicious of Matter When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That's a Moray - The New York Times Squatch Films Bold. Innovative. Stinky. Galaxy Chromebook Go launches w/ 14-inch display, Intel Celeron, more A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance - Rest of World Peloton Tread owners now forced into monthly subscription after recall Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive' Samsung is 'reimagining smartwatches' at its MWC event on June 28th Texas homeowners startled by "hijacked" thermostats China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans - Global Times South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin Google Changelog: New classroom capabilities for Chromebooks Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation, donates $4.1 billion PICKS Stacey: Paced walking on Google Fit Leo: Brave Search Jeff's Number: Half of Apple's commission comes from people spending $450+/month Matt: You Think You Know Me card game Ant: Wanderers Photo Workshop If you're thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/ 1-800-273-8255 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Guest: Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com/twit att.com/activearmor untuckit.com and use code TWIT
S1 E4: Dr. Anders interviews Amy Gleason, who serves as a project lead at US Digital Service, a branch of the White House. Amy shares her personal challenges with interoperability as a grounding for the work that she and her team at USDS would undertake in response to COVID19 amongst other initiatives. Specifically, she shares the incredible successes amongst pressure and infrastructural challenges the USDS would go on to have in collaboration with the CDC and other agencies, local and state, and individual entities to collect, clean, and publish mission-critical COVID data for governments and the public to access and use daily. She sheds light on all of the incredible behind-the-scenes work that has been done to get to where we are now, in never-before shared detail. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/
John McAfee, Peloton, Bitcoin KOBOL Developers Wanted: Matt Cutts Discusses Working with the US Digital Service The bureaucracy of Government Meetings John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison Cell NYT hit piece on Pichai for being too thoughtful What Has Google Done Lately? Google Sleep Tracking Has Helped Stacey Tech Giants, Fearful of Proposals to Curb Them, Blitz Washington With Lobbying - The New York Times Industry groups send letter opposing anti-tech legislation Klobuchar suspicious of Matter When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That's a Moray - The New York Times Squatch Films Bold. Innovative. Stinky. Galaxy Chromebook Go launches w/ 14-inch display, Intel Celeron, more A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance - Rest of World Peloton Tread owners now forced into monthly subscription after recall Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive' Samsung is 'reimagining smartwatches' at its MWC event on June 28th Texas homeowners startled by "hijacked" thermostats China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans - Global Times South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin Google Changelog: New classroom capabilities for Chromebooks Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation, donates $4.1 billion PICKS Stacey: Paced walking on Google Fit Leo: Brave Search Jeff's Number: Half of Apple's commission comes from people spending $450+/month Matt: You Think You Know Me card game Ant: Wanderers Photo Workshop If you're thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/ 1-800-273-8255 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Guest: Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com/twit att.com/activearmor untuckit.com and use code TWIT
John McAfee, Peloton, Bitcoin COBOL Developers Wanted: Matt Cutts Discusses Working with the US Digital Service The bureaucracy of Government Meetings John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison Cell NYT hit piece on Pichai for being too thoughtful What Has Google Done Lately? Google Sleep Tracking Has Helped Stacey Tech Giants, Fearful of Proposals to Curb Them, Blitz Washington With Lobbying - The New York Times Industry groups send letter opposing anti-tech legislation Klobuchar suspicious of Matter When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That's a Moray - The New York Times Squatch Films Bold. Innovative. Stinky. Galaxy Chromebook Go launches w/ 14-inch display, Intel Celeron, more A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance - Rest of World Peloton Tread owners now forced into monthly subscription after recall Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive' Samsung is 'reimagining smartwatches' at its MWC event on June 28th Texas homeowners startled by "hijacked" thermostats China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans - Global Times South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin Google Changelog: New classroom capabilities for Chromebooks Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation, donates $4.1 billion PICKS Stacey: Paced walking on Google Fit Leo: Brave Search Jeff's Number: Half of Apple's commission comes from people spending $450+/month Matt: You Think You Know Me card game Ant: Wanderers Photo Workshop If you're thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/ 1-800-273-8255 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Guest: Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com/twit att.com/activearmor untuckit.com and use code TWIT
John McAfee, Peloton, Bitcoin KOBOL Developers Wanted: Matt Cutts Discusses Working with the US Digital Service The bureaucracy of Government Meetings John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison Cell NYT hit piece on Pichai for being too thoughtful What Has Google Done Lately? Google Sleep Tracking Has Helped Stacey Tech Giants, Fearful of Proposals to Curb Them, Blitz Washington With Lobbying - The New York Times Industry groups send letter opposing anti-tech legislation Klobuchar suspicious of Matter When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That's a Moray - The New York Times Squatch Films Bold. Innovative. Stinky. Galaxy Chromebook Go launches w/ 14-inch display, Intel Celeron, more A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance - Rest of World Peloton Tread owners now forced into monthly subscription after recall Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive' Samsung is 'reimagining smartwatches' at its MWC event on June 28th Texas homeowners startled by "hijacked" thermostats China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans - Global Times South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin Google Changelog: New classroom capabilities for Chromebooks Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation, donates $4.1 billion PICKS Stacey: Paced walking on Google Fit Leo: Brave Search Jeff's Number: Half of Apple's commission comes from people spending $450+/month Matt: You Think You Know Me card game Ant: Wanderers Photo Workshop If you're thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/ 1-800-273-8255 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Guest: Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com/twit att.com/activearmor untuckit.com and use code TWIT
John McAfee, Peloton, Bitcoin KOBOL Developers Wanted: Matt Cutts Discusses Working with the US Digital Service The bureaucracy of Government Meetings John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison Cell NYT hit piece on Pichai for being too thoughtful What Has Google Done Lately? Google Sleep Tracking Has Helped Stacey Tech Giants, Fearful of Proposals to Curb Them, Blitz Washington With Lobbying - The New York Times Industry groups send letter opposing anti-tech legislation Klobuchar suspicious of Matter When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That's a Moray - The New York Times Squatch Films Bold. Innovative. Stinky. Galaxy Chromebook Go launches w/ 14-inch display, Intel Celeron, more A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance - Rest of World Peloton Tread owners now forced into monthly subscription after recall Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive' Samsung is 'reimagining smartwatches' at its MWC event on June 28th Texas homeowners startled by "hijacked" thermostats China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans - Global Times South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin Google Changelog: New classroom capabilities for Chromebooks Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation, donates $4.1 billion PICKS Stacey: Paced walking on Google Fit Leo: Brave Search Jeff's Number: Half of Apple's commission comes from people spending $450+/month Matt: You Think You Know Me card game Ant: Wanderers Photo Workshop If you're thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/ 1-800-273-8255 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Guest: Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com/twit att.com/activearmor untuckit.com and use code TWIT
John McAfee, Peloton, Bitcoin KOBOL Developers Wanted: Matt Cutts Discusses Working with the US Digital Service The bureaucracy of Government Meetings John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison Cell NYT hit piece on Pichai for being too thoughtful What Has Google Done Lately? Google Sleep Tracking Has Helped Stacey Tech Giants, Fearful of Proposals to Curb Them, Blitz Washington With Lobbying - The New York Times Industry groups send letter opposing anti-tech legislation Klobuchar suspicious of Matter When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That's a Moray - The New York Times Squatch Films Bold. Innovative. Stinky. Galaxy Chromebook Go launches w/ 14-inch display, Intel Celeron, more A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance - Rest of World Peloton Tread owners now forced into monthly subscription after recall Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive' Samsung is 'reimagining smartwatches' at its MWC event on June 28th Texas homeowners startled by "hijacked" thermostats China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans - Global Times South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin Google Changelog: New classroom capabilities for Chromebooks Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation, donates $4.1 billion PICKS Stacey: Paced walking on Google Fit Leo: Brave Search Jeff's Number: Half of Apple's commission comes from people spending $450+/month Matt: You Think You Know Me card game Ant: Wanderers Photo Workshop If you're thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/ 1-800-273-8255 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Guest: Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com/twit att.com/activearmor untuckit.com and use code TWIT
John McAfee, Peloton, Bitcoin KOBOL Developers Wanted: Matt Cutts Discusses Working with the US Digital Service The bureaucracy of Government Meetings John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison Cell NYT hit piece on Pichai for being too thoughtful What Has Google Done Lately? Google Sleep Tracking Has Helped Stacey Tech Giants, Fearful of Proposals to Curb Them, Blitz Washington With Lobbying - The New York Times Industry groups send letter opposing anti-tech legislation Klobuchar suspicious of Matter When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That's a Moray - The New York Times Squatch Films Bold. Innovative. Stinky. Galaxy Chromebook Go launches w/ 14-inch display, Intel Celeron, more A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance - Rest of World Peloton Tread owners now forced into monthly subscription after recall Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive' Samsung is 'reimagining smartwatches' at its MWC event on June 28th Texas homeowners startled by "hijacked" thermostats China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans - Global Times South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin Google Changelog: New classroom capabilities for Chromebooks Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation, donates $4.1 billion PICKS Stacey: Paced walking on Google Fit Leo: Brave Search Jeff's Number: Half of Apple's commission comes from people spending $450+/month Matt: You Think You Know Me card game Ant: Wanderers Photo Workshop If you're thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/ 1-800-273-8255 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Guest: Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com/twit att.com/activearmor untuckit.com and use code TWIT
John McAfee, Peloton, Bitcoin KOBOL Developers Wanted: Matt Cutts Discusses Working with the US Digital Service The bureaucracy of Government Meetings John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison Cell NYT hit piece on Pichai for being too thoughtful What Has Google Done Lately? Google Sleep Tracking Has Helped Stacey Tech Giants, Fearful of Proposals to Curb Them, Blitz Washington With Lobbying - The New York Times Industry groups send letter opposing anti-tech legislation Klobuchar suspicious of Matter When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That's a Moray - The New York Times Squatch Films Bold. Innovative. Stinky. Galaxy Chromebook Go launches w/ 14-inch display, Intel Celeron, more A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance - Rest of World Peloton Tread owners now forced into monthly subscription after recall Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive' Samsung is 'reimagining smartwatches' at its MWC event on June 28th Texas homeowners startled by "hijacked" thermostats China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans - Global Times South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin Google Changelog: New classroom capabilities for Chromebooks Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation, donates $4.1 billion PICKS Stacey: Paced walking on Google Fit Leo: Brave Search Jeff's Number: Half of Apple's commission comes from people spending $450+/month Matt: You Think You Know Me card game Ant: Wanderers Photo Workshop If you're thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/ 1-800-273-8255 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Guest: Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com/twit att.com/activearmor untuckit.com and use code TWIT
John McAfee, Peloton, Bitcoin KOBOL Developers Wanted: Matt Cutts Discusses Working with the US Digital Service The bureaucracy of Government Meetings John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison Cell NYT hit piece on Pichai for being too thoughtful What Has Google Done Lately? Google Sleep Tracking Has Helped Stacey Tech Giants, Fearful of Proposals to Curb Them, Blitz Washington With Lobbying - The New York Times Industry groups send letter opposing anti-tech legislation Klobuchar suspicious of Matter When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That's a Moray - The New York Times Squatch Films Bold. Innovative. Stinky. Galaxy Chromebook Go launches w/ 14-inch display, Intel Celeron, more A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance - Rest of World Peloton Tread owners now forced into monthly subscription after recall Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive' Samsung is 'reimagining smartwatches' at its MWC event on June 28th Texas homeowners startled by "hijacked" thermostats China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans - Global Times South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin Google Changelog: New classroom capabilities for Chromebooks Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation, donates $4.1 billion PICKS Stacey: Paced walking on Google Fit Leo: Brave Search Jeff's Number: Half of Apple's commission comes from people spending $450+/month Matt: You Think You Know Me card game Ant: Wanderers Photo Workshop If you're thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/ 1-800-273-8255 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Guest: Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com/twit att.com/activearmor untuckit.com and use code TWIT
John McAfee, Peloton, Bitcoin KOBOL Developers Wanted: Matt Cutts Discusses Working with the US Digital Service The bureaucracy of Government Meetings John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison Cell NYT hit piece on Pichai for being too thoughtful What Has Google Done Lately? Google Sleep Tracking Has Helped Stacey Tech Giants, Fearful of Proposals to Curb Them, Blitz Washington With Lobbying - The New York Times Industry groups send letter opposing anti-tech legislation Klobuchar suspicious of Matter When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That's a Moray - The New York Times Squatch Films Bold. Innovative. Stinky. Galaxy Chromebook Go launches w/ 14-inch display, Intel Celeron, more A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance - Rest of World Peloton Tread owners now forced into monthly subscription after recall Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive' Samsung is 'reimagining smartwatches' at its MWC event on June 28th Texas homeowners startled by "hijacked" thermostats China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans - Global Times South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin Google Changelog: New classroom capabilities for Chromebooks Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation, donates $4.1 billion PICKS Stacey: Paced walking on Google Fit Leo: Brave Search Jeff's Number: Half of Apple's commission comes from people spending $450+/month Matt: You Think You Know Me card game Ant: Wanderers Photo Workshop If you're thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/ 1-800-273-8255 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Guest: Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com/twit att.com/activearmor untuckit.com and use code TWIT
Click the Title to Play or Download. Interview with Liz Simon, Chief Operating Officer of General Assembly. General Assembly is a pioneer in education and career transformation, specializing in today’s most in-demand skills such as web development, data, design, business, and more. They began as a co-working space in 2011 and have grown into a global learning experience with campuses in 20 cities and over 35,000 graduates worldwide. We discuss:Liz's background as a lawyerLiz Simon, COOObama Administration and the US Digital ServiceAudience: students wanting to learn a new skill or companies needing to retrain staff or create a pipeline of new talentImpact of the pandemic on teaching methodologiesCourse and program time commitmentThree-month intensive learning, 9-5, 5 days/weekDifferentiation with MOOCs90% get a job in their field within 3 monthsPartnerships and articulation agreementsLinks to companies mentionedhttps://generalassemb.ly/https://www.accredible.com/https://www.class.com/Podsafe music selectionUtopian Prince - Create your own AI Music at Jukedeck Duration: 31:05
Tik Tok Ban, Tech Titans Talk to Congress, Twitter Hackers ArrestedTrump threatens to ban Tik Tok Trump wants Microsoft to buy Tik TokMr. Cook, Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai go to Washington What should the government do to Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple?Twitter hackers arrestedOur Covid year: CES will be all-virtual in 2021 Huawei is the #1 phone maker in the world Need a job? The US Digital Service is hiring!Microsoft will end mobile support for Cortana in 2010 Election Cyber Surge wants to help America voteTrump is witholding funds from the Internet Freedom Fund Watch the Samsung Note 20 and Galaxy Z Fold announcement this week with TWiT!Emmys will be all-virtual this year Quibi lost 92% of its day one subscribers Bernie Sanders wants to send you 3 masks Analogue Pocket comes out tomorrow Brianna Wu is the 8th best Super Mario 2 speedrunner in the world Fyre Festival and GSA Auctions Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Brianna Wu, Paris Martineau, and Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: monday.com/TWIT www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT ZipRecruiter.com/Twit barracuda.com/twit
Tik Tok Ban, Tech Titans Talk to Congress, Twitter Hackers ArrestedTrump threatens to ban Tik Tok Trump wants Microsoft to buy Tik TokMr. Cook, Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai go to Washington What should the government do to Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple?Twitter hackers arrestedOur Covid year: CES will be all-virtual in 2021 Huawei is the #1 phone maker in the world Need a job? The US Digital Service is hiring!Microsoft will end mobile support for Cortana in 2010 Election Cyber Surge wants to help America voteTrump is witholding funds from the Internet Freedom Fund Watch the Samsung Note 20 and Galaxy Z Fold announcement this week with TWiT!Emmys will be all-virtual this year Quibi lost 92% of its day one subscribers Bernie Sanders wants to send you 3 masks Analogue Pocket comes out tomorrow Brianna Wu is the 8th best Super Mario 2 speedrunner in the world Fyre Festival and GSA Auctions Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Brianna Wu, Paris Martineau, and Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: monday.com/TWIT www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT ZipRecruiter.com/Twit barracuda.com/twit
Tik Tok Ban, Tech Titans Talk to Congress, Twitter Hackers ArrestedTrump threatens to ban Tik Tok Trump wants Microsoft to buy Tik TokMr. Cook, Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai go to Washington What should the government do to Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple?Twitter hackers arrestedOur Covid year: CES will be all-virtual in 2021 Huawei is the #1 phone maker in the world Need a job? The US Digital Service is hiring!Microsoft will end mobile support for Cortana in 2010 Election Cyber Surge wants to help America voteTrump is witholding funds from the Internet Freedom Fund Watch the Samsung Note 20 and Galaxy Z Fold announcement this week with TWiT!Emmys will be all-virtual this year Quibi lost 92% of its day one subscribers Bernie Sanders wants to send you 3 masks Analogue Pocket comes out tomorrow Brianna Wu is the 8th best Super Mario 2 speedrunner in the world Fyre Festival and GSA Auctions Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Brianna Wu, Paris Martineau, and Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: monday.com/TWIT www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT ZipRecruiter.com/Twit barracuda.com/twit
Tik Tok Ban, Tech Titans Talk to Congress, Twitter Hackers ArrestedTrump threatens to ban Tik Tok Trump wants Microsoft to buy Tik TokMr. Cook, Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai go to Washington What should the government do to Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple?Twitter hackers arrestedOur Covid year: CES will be all-virtual in 2021 Huawei is the #1 phone maker in the world Need a job? The US Digital Service is hiring!Microsoft will end mobile support for Cortana in 2010 Election Cyber Surge wants to help America voteTrump is witholding funds from the Internet Freedom Fund Watch the Samsung Note 20 and Galaxy Z Fold announcement this week with TWiT!Emmys will be all-virtual this year Quibi lost 92% of its day one subscribers Bernie Sanders wants to send you 3 masks Analogue Pocket comes out tomorrow Brianna Wu is the 8th best Super Mario 2 speedrunner in the world Fyre Festival and GSA Auctions Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Brianna Wu, Paris Martineau, and Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: monday.com/TWIT www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT ZipRecruiter.com/Twit barracuda.com/twit
The public sector is scrambling to address the massive public health and economic crisis driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. As policymakers and bureaucrats at all levels of government have sought to ameliorate harm and spur an effective response, the performance of many government programs and systems—in terms of meeting demand for fast changes, increased use, and more flexible operations—has been rocky at best. New legislation designed to provide trillions of dollars in relief has met, at least initially, with several challenges that may be reducing the speed and effectiveness of intended aid. Hana Schank (https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/hana-schank/) Director of Strategy for Public Interest Technology at New America, a former member of the US Digital Service, and co-author of a forthcoming book on public interest technology and the recent essay “Why the rollout of the $2 trillion CARES Act was a colossal mess” (https://www.fastcompany.com/90491891/why-the-rollout-of-the-2-trillion-cares-act-was-a-colossal-mess), joins to discuss why the rollout of relief has been a challenge, the roots of the public sector’s struggle to deliver aid more effectively, and what Congress and other policymakers can do to improve future performance.
Matt Cutts is the Administrator of the US Digital Service and previously he was the head of the webspam team at Google.You can find him on Twitter at @mattcutts.The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/ ***Topics00:00 - Intro00:36 - Working at Google in 20002:48 - Did Google's success feel certain?3:53 - Building self-service ads7:23 - The evil unicorn problem8:23 - Lawsuits around search10:48 - Content moderation and spam14:38 - Matt's progression over 17 years at Google17:18 - Deepfakes18:43 - Joining the USDS21:03 - What the USDS does23:43 - Working at the USDS26:43 - Educating people in government about tech28:58 - Creating a rapid feedback loop within government31:48 - Michael Wang asks - How does USDS decide whether to outsource something to a private company, or build the software in house?32:58 - Spencer Clark asks - It would seem that the government is so far behind the private industry’s technology. To what extent is this true and what can be done about it? How should we gauge the progress of institutions like the USDS?36:03 - Stephan Sturges asks - With GANs getting more and more powerful is the USDS thinking about the future of data authenticity?38:23 - John Doherty asks - How difficult was it to communicate Google’s algorithm changes and evolving SEO best practices without leaking new spam tactics?40:18 - Vanman0254 asks - How can smart tech folks better contribute to regulatory and policy discussions in government? 42:38 - Ronak Shah asks - What's your best pitch to high-performing startups in the Bay Area to adopt more of human centered design (something that the government has been moving towards surprisingly well, but that some fast moving startups have neglected resulting in controversy)49:58 - Adam Hoffman asks - What are legislators, the government, and the general populace most “getting wrong” in how they conceptualize the internet?51:33 - Raphael Ferreira asks - Is it possible to live without google? How do you think google affected people in searching for answers and content, now that’s we find everything in just one click?55:23 - Tim Woods asks - Which job was more fun and why?57:13 - Working in government vs private industry1:00:48 - Snehan Kekre asks - What is Matt's view of the ongoing debate about backdooring encryption for so called lawful interception?
EP 62: Rejected Facebook Ads and the Future of Digital Advertising with Chuck Rossi In Episode 62, Tyler and Jon discuss TikTok. With over 500 million users, this is an untapped marketing platform for brands that are trying to reach a young audience. Tyler and Jon also dive into what the future looks like for TikTok. Then, Tyler welcomes Chuck Rossi, the Former Facebook Director of Engineering, onto the podcast. Chuck’s career began in the silicon valley working with IBM as a software engineer. His experience ranges over 30 years in the silicon valley at various startups that grew to become successful companies, including Google and Facebook. He worked at Facebook for 11 years and saw the company grow from 300 to over 40,000 employees. Chuck gives us a inside scoop on what Facebook’s culture was like during its rapid growth and how it compared to Google’s during the search giant's own rapid ascension. He then goes on to cover how powerful Facebook groups can be for your brand and how to get more reach with your organic (non-paid) content. Chuck also reflects on his experience working for the US Digital Service on the national background check system. Finally, Chuck shares his biggest takeaway for marketers on Facebook, which is to stay in the fight. Join Tyler, Jon, and Chuck for more insight on how to build your brand and marketing strategy in 2020 and beyond. By the way- have you left us a review yet? If not, we'd be honored if you did! Timestamps 0:00 Intro 1:40 What’s in the News | Tik Tok 6:30 Featured Guest | Chuck Rossi 12:00 Facebook’s Culture 15:21 Differences Between Facebook And Google 19:39 The Gray Area Surrounding Facebook Ad’s Policies 27:15 What To Do If Your Ad Campaign is Disapproved 28:34 The Importance Of Facebook Groups 33:43 Most Effective Facebook and Instagram Ad Strategies 39:57 How To Get More Reach On Your Organic Content 43:10 Working At The United States Digital Service 50:45 2020 Digital Trends For Marketers 54:57 How To Adapt To New Technology 56:14 Key Takeaway 57:20 Outro Featured Guest | Chuck Rossi LinkedIn What's In the News Tik Tok - Brands Flock over to Video Platform Lion’s Share Marketing Podcast Learn More About Tyler & Jon www.tylersickmeyer.com Need Marketing Help? www.FidelitasDevelopment.com Music Intro Music – Colony House – Buy “2:20” on iTunes Outro Music – Skillet – Buy “Lions” on iTunes
The government may have won over a few new young recruits to federal service. All it took was a 10-week paid internship at one of six federal agencies this summer. The Civic Digital Fellowship is an internship program designed to give college students a taste of public service. It's geared toward students or recent graduates with less experience than required for a President Innovation Fellowship or the US Digital Service. The 2019 cohort of civic digital fellows is the biggest one yet. As Federal News Network's Nicole Ogrysko reported on Federal Drive with Tom Temin, agencies may have reason to be optimistic they can attract young tech talent.
In the wake of the Blue Button 2.0 Developer's conference, we sat down with Amy Gleason, co-founder of CareSync, and Product Owner of the new "Data at the Point of Care" initiative, to learn how the US Digital Service and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is using claims data to improve care for Medicare patients. Amy's nursing background, family experience with the medical system, and unique perspective on electronic health records have made her a uniquely qualified patient advocate and champion of data-driven care. Follow Amy (@ThePatientsSide) and Inspired Service (@InspiredServPod) on Twitter for more!
A diverse group of technologists is trying to make the government work the way it’s supposed to. Jared Cunha of the US Digital Service fights paper-clogged bureaucracy with human-centered design. * * * Thanks for listening. Please tell the algorithms how you feel with a 5-star rating and a nice review. Subscribe for email updates about new episodes.
Welcome Back — Clare Martorana is with the US Digital Service where she is working to modernize va.gov. She urges us to be open to new technologies and lifelong learning. Read her story. Speaking of technology, the new year is as good a time as any to try what’s new in the workplace. Slack is […] The post Weekly Newsletter: Lifelong Learning + a Tech Tune-up appeared first on Next For Me.
Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Bank of America's struggling M&A franchise, the Royal Bank of Scotland's recovery ten years after it was bailed out by the British government, and Barclays' decision to get into online banking in the US.Contrubutors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Special guest: Ross McEwan, chief executive of RBS. Producer: Fiona Symon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Sept 25, 2018 |This fifth episode features Shannon Sartin, executive director of the U.S. Digital Service at the Department of Health and Human Services. Sartin comes from a family of public service, but unsure of her career path, obtained a degree in Italian from the University of Arizona. She got her start in tech with Bunjie, the video game company behind Halo, but eventually made her way to D.C. via a cross-country drive with her daughter, dog and horse. She applied to a job with USDS, listing her skill as "making sh*t happen." Hear more about how she's making healthcare better with technology, and what she thinks is driving the future of USDS.
We’ve all heard companies talk big about how they value diversity. But many still aren’t willing to quantify how they’re doing: who works there? Who’s getting hired and promoted? Are people being paid equitably? On today’s show, we talk about diversity, data, and how one engineer’s call for hard numbers shook things up. That engineer was Tracy Chou—a leading voice in tech industry diversity and inclusion conversations. She’s a wildly talented software engineer who believes in the importance of increasing transparency among tech companies, the need for tech to value a humanities education, and the pleasures of spending way too much time on Twitter. > As an engineer, I’m so used to having to have data for everything. But the lack of data on the workforce side just felt so hypocritical to me. It seemed like it wasn’t really a problem that we wanted to solve if we weren’t even looking at the data. > —**Tracy Chou, Project Include founding advisor ** We talked with Tracy about: What the real picture of diversity in tech companies looks like and where the numbers are. Why it’s important for tech companies to get comfortable releasing data about their workforce, and why it’s critical to consider the intersectionality of diversity efforts. A nonprofit Tracy helped to found called Project Include, which shares best practices around implementing diversity and inclusion solutions. Plus, we talk about ch-ch-ch-changes and asking for help: Specifically, change at work—how we deal with it and how it can affect us emotionally and physically. And yup, we constantly have to remind ourselves that it’s ok to ask for help. The good news is, we’re helping each other do it more. Jenn even got to take a vacation complete with funnel cake, because she asked for help with childcare. 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[intro music plays for 12 seconds] Jenn Lukas Hey friends, welcome to No, You Go, the show about being ambitious and sticking together. I’m Jenn Lukas. Katel LeDû I’m Katel LeDû. SWB And I’m Sara Wachter-Boettcher. And today we are talking to Tracy Chou, who is an entrepreneur and an engineer whose push for tech companies to start revealing employee diversity data back in 2013 kickstarted a lot of huge changes in Silicon Valley, and put her on the cover of The Atlantic and Wired and a whole bunch of other stuff. It also led her to become a founding member of Project Include, which is a non-profit that is on a mission to accelerate diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. So we chat with Tracy about how she became a diversity advocate, how that’s changed her career and what she’s learned along the way. But before we do that, I just want to kind of check in with everyone. So, how’s life? JL Life’s been a little wild this week. We kicked off some really big team changes at work. You know, some small changes, some big changes, but some people’s day to days got pretty changed up. And of course, seating changes. KL Oh gosh, that can be a big doozy. How’s it going? JL [sighs] Well, I can say this. People really just don’t care for change. [All three laugh] SWB [still laughing] No! Not at all. JL You know, I’ve been thinking a lot recently about like why do people hate change so much? SWB Because we all have habits and comforts and then you take them away and it’s very hard because inside we’re all just delicate little flowers. [Katel laughs] SWB Seriously! We are! KL Yeah! SWB We are! It’s hard! KL You get used to something and you’re like ‘wait, now everything’s changing and how am I going to adapt and how am I going to deal with this.’ And I think yeah, it just, it feels like it— it can feel overwhelming and especially when it has to do with sort of changing folks that you’re working with or places you’re sitting. Like I think physical changes can impact you a lot. SWB And maybe also the thing with physical change like where you’re sitting is that nobody really realizes that it’s impacting them so much, right? People will underestimate how much of an impact that can have and so it’s the kind of change that can really affect your day to day, but that nobody’s kind of taking stock of and and it’s sort of assumed that that will just be fine. And I think that those changes are hard, right? The ones that we don’t invest enough time in planning for and understanding that there is an emotional component to it. The other thing I think about when it comes to change is that oftentimes people will know that the company needs to change and they’ll complain about the way it’s organized and it’s so hard to get anything done and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. And yet when you try to enact changes, it’s really difficult to get people on board. And I think part of that is also like change that people are choosing for themselves versus change that is being done to them. And the reality is, nobody likes to feel like there is something being done to them and so that’s one of the biggest things I always think about is how do you make this something that people feel a little bit included in or consulted on? Or at least how can you put it into terms that will help them see it as something that is going to help them in their day to day or take away some of the pain that they were experiencing in terms of workflow or whatever. And of course, that’s not always invested in and it’s also not always true! Like for some people it’s it’s not actually solving the personal problems they had even if it’s solving company problems. And then it’s like okay, how do you get people on board and sort of get them through that hard part of of shifting gears? JL One of the things we do with team changes that I think is really good is re-establish team norms. So sit down with everyone and everyone sort of discusses just like, what are the routines and what are the beliefs and the things that are important to people as a team. And I think that can really be helpful with new teammates to be like ‘here are things that are important to me, what are things that are important to you, and what’s it going to be like to live together at work?’ KL Yeah. SWB Do you have any sort of particular structure for doing something like that? JL We have the scrum masters run that and sort of they have a questionnaire list that brings stuff up. So, people eating lunch at their desks or how you use the shared space or the tables. So we—like I said, we switched the teams so we had to discuss ‘hey, can we still use this table to watch Jeopardy at lunch?’ [All three laugh] KL Very important! JL [laughing] Yeah! SWB Yeah, bullet point number one: Jeopardy! JL Right? But I mean also things like how you point stories. So pointing stories is basically a level of effort of how much an effort will take to get some sort of feature work done or something at work. We do daily stand ups at work where people tell you what your status are at meetings. You know, what time is that? Or are you doing them over Slack or like virtual stand ups? I think it can also be things like ‘here’s how I receive feedback best’ or ‘here’s how I think we should handle reviews of other people’s work.’ [5:18] SWB Yeah, I mean there’re so many questions that come up when there’s any kind of change like that. Since I don’t work in a company—but the kind of consulting I do with companies is always about change because invariably they are coming to me because they realize that their content or their user experience isn’t working as they want it to and the reason that it’s not working is always rooted in their not being able to make it work as a company. The way that they’re organized, the way they do things, who’s in charge of what. So, I have to talk to people about how their jobs are going to change and how things are going to be different. And I’m a big fan of having people practice some of those skills. So if it’s like okay, we are going to do a different kind of writing process where instead of—you know—you produce this content over here in this department and then you ship it out the door to this other department, there’s going to be a collaborative process. Well then, okay, we should practice that. And so we’ll do that in a workshop setting where we’ll pair people up and we’ll actually practice—how do we work on these things together, how do we share drafts and get feedback from each other? And I think that those kinds of low stakes practice sessions—because you’re not doing your real job, you’re just kind of practicing the new thing in a short period of time—I think that that can help people feel more comfortable with talking to people they aren’t used to talking with. JL Yeah and I mean I also think that it lets you feel more in control, and sometimes if you embrace that, if you know change is coming, you can do more exercises like that. And sort of prepare and be ready for this. So if you are expecting change or just knowing it can happen or knowing specifics, you can just be better ready I think to deal with it. KL I love thinking about kind of how a different perspective or sort of embracing a different kind of approach to the change can kind of help you through it. It makes me think of when I was at National Geographic, we would go through organization changes from time to time, but at a certain point, we actually went through a really big physical change where we went from everyone was in cubicles and not just cubes that were like low sort of where you can see everyone. It was like six feet tall and offices and everyone went to cubes that were like four feet high. So, everybody could see everybody—including managers, it was all sorts of like all different levels, and people were really freaked out. And one thing that we realized immediately was going from sort of a perceived sense of privacy to not having any, meant that we kind of had to think about the workplace etiquette a little differently and just no one had thought about that. Like no one. It wasn’t—you know—a matter of management doing something wrong or folks not thinking about it, it just was like ‘oh, wait we have to work together a little bit differently.’ And something I’ve actually seen work really well is at a co-working space I go to here in Philly. [Laughs] Someone made these little coasters that were like red light, green light. So basically you put your little green circle up if you were ready to chat to people or didn’t mind having people coming up to your desk, or you put the red one up if you were like ‘I’m going to be heads down and working on something.’ So—I just think this idea of kind of looking at things a little differently too can help. JL It’s like Fogo de Chão, [Katel laughs] the Brazilian steakhouse where green means bring me more meat and red means no I’ve had enough. KL [Laughing] Exactly. JL Yeah I mean I really like that because we used to say the universal sign was headphones, but I think we all know that doesn’t work. I was reading a bit on Harvard Business Review about this. They had some interesting things about finding humor in the situation, talk about problems more than feelings, don’t stress out about stressing out, focus on your values more than your fears—this idea that remembering that you’re you no matter what the change is can really help you. The change doesn’t have to define who you are. But something else I really liked was this like ‘don’t expect stability,’ where they talk about this 70’s research that was done where they studied two groups of managers and one group thrived and the other didn’t. And they said—you know—the adaptive leaders chose to view all changes as an expected part of the human experience, rather than as a tragic anomaly that victimizes unlucky people. KL Yeah! JL And then the struggling leaders were ones who were consumed by thoughts of quote on quote the good, old days. And they spent their energy trying to figure out why their luck had suddenly turned sour—because they kept looking back to something that wasn’t there anymore. SWB That’s so interesting too because that just reminds me so much of politics, right? You have so many people who are talking about the good, old days. And you’re like ‘wait, when were the good, old days and for whom exactly?’ And I think it’s true at work too where it’s like when people get obsessed with the good, old days, those are probably also mythical. Right? KL Yeah.. SWB They may have been good for some people in the organization but it’s undoubtedly that they weren’t working for other people. JL And the other thing that you might like if you dig in, you might be like ‘okay, well this part was good, but this part wasn’t’ and you can think about how to get that good part back. So if what you missed was that you sat with someone or you worked with someone really closely that you didn’t—you know—make sure you’re setting up time for lunch with them or maybe you set up pairing sessions where you still work together. But you know, trying to figure out what it is that you did like and then what are things you can apply moving on? What are the things that you’re excited about now? And what are the things maybe that you didn’t really like then? And maybe you didn’t get a chance to work on these exciting things or work with this person and now you do get to work with this new person or you do get to work on this new project. Or maybe this new seat allowed you to clear off the desk that you’ve been meaning to do. [Laughs] It’s funny, I was actually like—in the seating change I ended up not moving seats and I’m like ‘ugh, but I’ve got all these boxes I’ve got to bring down.’ [All laugh] KL [Laughing] You’re like ‘no, I need a move to help me reorganize.’ JL *[laughs] *Yeah, so just—like you’re saying. Trying to figure out really what are the positives moving forward? If there are things you will miss from those days, how do you keep them up and try to make the best going forward, as much as you can. I mean, It’s always hard and I don’t want to make it ever sound like that’s easy, but I think we can all do it. [11:26] [Music fades in, plays alone for five seconds, fades out] Time Trivia SWB So we’ve been talking a lot about change and our interviewee today definitely talks a lot about change in the tech industry as well so I’d like to get to that interview, but before we do, we have one last little segment. It is brand new, it is called Time Trivia. Because we talk about time on this show all the time! We need more time, we try to balance the time we have, we rant about how we are sometimes feeling a little bit unbalanced. And so our friends at Harvest wanted to see if we could stump each other when it comes to time. So let’s see. Katel, you’re up today and our theme is women authors. Are you ready? KL Oh gosh, let’s do it. JL Okay, Katel. Here is your first question. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter manuscript was rejected twelve times before it sold for an advance of only £1,500. Now she’s sold more than four hundred million copies. How long did it take her to write that manuscript? A) 5,000 hours, B) 15,000 hours, or C) 50,000 hours. KL Oh my gosh, this is already a lot of numbers. I’m going to say C) 50,000 hours. JL Katel— that is correct! KL [Gasps] Yayy! JL It took her six years to write Harry Potter. KL That’s a lot of hours! SWB We even tried to stump you with the twelve times £1,500, 400 million copies—you were unstumpable. Question two. More math, sorry. [Katel laughs] Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights under the pseudonym Ellis Bell in 1847. If she’d been paid a freelance rate of $50 an hour – pretty good in 1847—how much would she have earned for her wild, passionate tale of Katherine and Heathcliff’s love? KL Ugh, I love this book. SWB Is it A) $740,000, B) $60,000, or C) $330,000? KL Ohhh my gosh, I’m going to go with B) $60,000 even though I feel like it should be more. SWB It is way more. It is actually $330,000 because it took her nine months to write that book, which is still a real short time considering how great that book is, ugh. KL Yeah, it is! I’m glad it was more than $60k. JL Okay, Katel, last question. Stephanie Myer’s classic tale of vampire love and lust—yes, Twilight—[laughs] has become a five-film series. If Stephanie had been billing her time to clients instead, how many 15 minute increments would she have billed? A) 870, B) 8,700, or C) 87,000? KL Ooh. 8,700? JL Katel, you know your 15 minute increments. That is correct! B) 8,700. SWB Two out of three, not bad. I think that’s a winning score! So, thank you so much to Harvest for sponsoring our time trivia today and for supporting women authors, which they do, and women podcasters. So check them out at getharvest.com. [Music fades in, plays alone for five seconds, fades out] [14:34] Interview: Tracy Chou SWB Tracy Chou is a wildly talented software engineer, who has also become a leading voice in tech industry diversity and inclusion conversations. She has been an engineer at Quora and Pinterest, an advisor to the US Digital Service and is one of the cofounders of an organization I am personally super fond of and that’s Project Include. She was named on Forbes’ 30 under 30 tech list in 2014 and she has been profiled in everything from Vogue to Mother Jones. So I am extremely excited to welcome Tracy to the show today. Tracy, thank you so much for being here. So, you went to Stanford, you interned at Facebook, you were one of the first engineers at Quora and one of the first engineers at Pinterest. That is kind of like a perfect Silicon Valley pedigree to a lot of people. Except, you’ve also written about feeling out of place during a lot of that time and not necessarily feeling like the industry was designed for you. And I’m wondering if we can start there—what was it like in the beginning of your career? And what was exciting about it and maybe what was not so great about it? Tracy Chou Yeah, so I grew up in the Bay Area surrounded by tech and I think that made it very easy for me to naturally fall into the tech industry. When I started working in tech I think I just accepted things for the way they were, including the lack of gender diversity, racial diversity. I honestly didn’t notice or think that things should be different. But there definitely were experiences I had when I started working that felt off, but I didn’t know how to articulate or pinpoint them. I tended to blame myself or think that there was something wrong with me when I had a lot of coworkers hitting on me all the time, for example when I was interning. And—you know—when I started working and felt like I might be treated differently, I assumed that it was because I wasn’t as qualified or there was something about the the way that I was approaching my work that was inferior and therefore caused people to treat me differently. So it took a while for me to put all the pieces together, and so I was just talking to a lot of other people in industry, other female engineers. One of my early conversations that really started to make me aware of these sorts of issues systemically, was with Tristan Walker who is an African American founder. And he had reached out to say that he had seen some of my writing about being female in engineering and wanted to share that he had similar experiences even though he wasn’t technical and he wasn’t a woman. Being the only black person in the room oftentimes felt as alienating and he could really identify with a lot of the things that I was saying. And that helped me to see how pervasive the sort of experience of marginalization is. Even though the tech industry is one that tries to pride itself on being so innovative and designing the future, being this engine of progress, there are so many ways in which it is still very backwards. SWB What year was that? That was like 2010,11,12 in there that you were really kind of getting going in your career and having those experiences? TC Yeah, the first sort of Silicon Valley tech internship I had was in 2007, but I started working full time in 2010. SWB So in 2013, you wrote this post on Medium that got kind of a lot of attention, where you were calling out the lack of data about women who are working in tech—and maybe specifically working in engineering, and the lack of success metrics attached to company’s diversity efforts. So if companies maybe had diversity efforts, they didn’t necessarily have any sense of whether they were working or not. And so that post kind of blew up and a lot of companies started sharing their numbers in a GitHub repo. And for listeners who aren’t familiar with GitHub repos, it’s just a site where you can work collaboratively usually on software projects, but you can also do things like collaboratively share data. And I’m wondering if you could talk a little bit about how that happened. First up, what made you sit down and write that blog post and did it feel risky when you did it? TC I had been working in the industry for a few years at that point and had gotten to know a number of the female engineers at other companies. And it started to be this thing that I would keep track of in the back of my head like which startups, which companies had which female engineers. Whenever I went into rooms I would automatically start counting, so it was just something that I was keeping tabs on personally. At the same time, I was looking at diversity at Pinterest and I wanted to make recommendations to the team about what we should do to be more diverse and inclusive. Facebook and Google were getting a lot of really good press around their parental leave policies, for example, and lots of companies were talking about how they were sending lots of people to the Grace Hopper conference, which is this big annual conference of women in computing. But I found it very hard to justify recommending any of those things to Pinterest because there were no success metrics. So these kind of thoughts were swirling around in my head when I went to Grace Hopper that year—this was October 2013—and I was at a breakfast where Sheryl Sandberg was speaking in front of the room and she made a comment about how the numbers of women in tech were dropping precipitously. Which, I didn’t disagree with the sentiment of, but it made me wonder what numbers she was talking about, because to my knowledge there were no numbers really out there. And so when I got home with all these thoughts rolling around my head, I ended up writing this post around diversity data. I was also reflecting on how the way we treated workforce issues was so different from the way we treated product development. As an engineer, I’m so used to having to have data for everything. We’re pretty religious about tracking all this data on our users [laughs] and understanding their behavior and that’s the way that we approach problem solving in product development. But the lack of data on the workforce side just felt so hypocritical to me. It seemed like it wasn’t really a problem that we wanted to solve if we weren’t even looking at the data. And of course I understood all the reasons why companies were skittish about even tracking the data because it would also mean that they would start to acknowledge the problem and have to solve it. But when I wrote the post, I wasn’t expecting much of a response. I didn’t think that it would be something that many people would even read, much less act on. I would also add though that in hindsight it seems like this post became big immediately and started this whole movement, but it did take some time as well. It was more of a slow, snowball effect. And so there were smaller companies that contributed their data first and the bigger companies took a little bit more time to process and work through what they wanted to do before they all started releasing their reports as well. [21:05] SWB When I look back on it, it kind of reminds me of in some ways like the moment that happened last year when Susan Fowler published her Uber blog post where there was this moment—the table had already been set for this conversation and it was just it pushed it over the edge or something. And I’m not sure if it’s exactly the same by any means, but it did really feel like a moment was happening and I’m curious, why do you think it ended up really snowballing? What was it about that moment that you think caught on? TC I think there was general appetite to do something about diversity and inclusion. More people were acknowledging that it was a problem. And I think the way that I framed it, which was, “let’s just start sharing some data,” made the problem seem a little bit more tractable. At least there was a first step that people could take. There was one thing that an individual contributor, for example, could do. So if you’re working at a small startup, you can look around the room and see how many engineers and how many female engineers and count that up and submit that data into the repository. And it felt easy, actionable, and also clear that this would contribute to a broader cause. I think I had a little bit more credibility as an engineer working at a company that a lot of people knew. And I think that piece is still important, I could speak from the perspective of being on the inside. And I think also I just got lucky. In a lot of ways I think of this project as a startup where startups have the markets that they’re going after, the products they’re trying to build. Sometimes they’re too early and the market isn’t ready for them, sometimes the product isn’t just quite right yet for people to want to engage with it. A lot of things have to come together all at once and luck, timing, all of that plays in. And somehow this Medium post in a row and the GitHub repository that I set up just happened to be just right at that time to capitalize on this increasing intent from people in the community to do something. And I think I was the right person at the right time to be pushing on that message. SWB If you’re an engineer or anybody who uses GitHub already, it’s also like, it feels sort of a natural place or a more comfortable place. TC Yeah, I think the GitHub angle was also interesting because it spoke more to engineers and people who write code, as opposed to HR. So it was getting engineers submitting their data through pull requests, and those people were less encumbered by thinking through, what are the legal ramifications and what are the HR risks here. They’re just thinking, like, this is the team that I work on, I want to report the data on the team. KL This is so fascinating to me too because in that post in 2013 you also focused really narrowly on defining the technical roles. You wanted companies to talk about actual engineers—not every other role, not business development or whatever. Sort of as a way of saying companies shouldn’t pad their numbers about the women they hire if women aren’t in those roles. And I see that point. I’m also curious if that perspective has shifted over the past few years or changed at all? TC One of the reasons why I wanted to be really specific about just tracking women in engineering is that for something that was crowdsourced, it had to be as simple as possible to contribute that data. The more you ask from people, the more drop off you get in that flow. So I wanted to make it super simple. But the other point about just looking at engineering versus the rest of it was that I did want to get away from that sort of padding of the numbers. And in the tech industry engineers are very much valued because they are the ones—we are the ones—building the products that are being sold, very close to the core value of the companies. So there’s this idea of looking at where the prestige is and how much inclusion you have there. Now that there’s more data coming out, we can see that even if you have a reasonable amount of representation across the companies, usually they’re lower ranked, few of those people are in decision-making roles. One interesting data point that I would love to see that is very hard to get is diversity on the cap table, and so that’s looking at ownership of the company—like who owns the shares. And I would suspect that ownership in these different tech companies skews very heavily white and male, because founders will have a lot of stock, early employees will have much more because the stock grants are risk-adjusted so people who are joining early will get much more stock, investors get stock, executives get a lot of stock. So even if your company has a lot of women, but they’re all in the lower-ranked, non-technical roles, the value that they get out of the company doing well is much less. So I really wanted to dig in on engineering within tech because that is so close to the core of Silicon Valley. [26:05] SWB One thing I’d love to ask about—we talked with Nicole Sanchez of Vaya Consulting back in June and her company focuses on diversity and inclusion in tech and consults with a lot of tech companies. And one of the things she said to us was that she flat out does not love the way that the numbers are being reported by tech companies right now, that there’s still a lot of gaming of the system because so much of the numbers is just about percentage of people in full and percentage of new hires, right? And that there’s not a lot of information about things like retention of those employees and seniority of those employees and, as you mentioned, who is actually getting a cut of these companies, right? Like who’s really taking home money? And so it sounds like—and I’m curious about your thoughts on this—but it sounds like the way that you were initially looking at some of these metrics was sort of really, really important at the time, but maybe isn’t quite enough to answer the questions that we have about how that industry is doing and to answer the questions that we have about whether things are getting better. TC Absolutely. I think we need much more comprehensive metrics and there is certainly gamification of the current metrics that get released. I think getting people even into the flow of releasing any data was a pretty big step. And I think it’s good to keep pushing on companies to release better data. So one obvious thing is intersectionality—instead of just putting gender on one side, race on one side, looking at those intersectional cuts and just see is it just white men and white women getting promoted? How does it look for women of color? Those sorts of questions can’t be answered if all the data is being split out. I’ve been relatively heartened by how much companies have been willing to release—enough that we can look at their data and see that in the last few years even if we’ve made some progress on gender diversity, we’ve had backsliding on racial diversity, which is not a good statement on the industry, but at least we have that data that we can even point that out and see that some of these diversity efforts aren’t uniformly benefitting different people and, in fact, are causing some harm to different groups. SWB So another thing I was really hoping to dig into that I think you kind of touched on a little bit when you were kind of talking about technical versus non-technical roles, is I’m also curious how you feel about who’s considered technical in Silicon Valley and sort of the valuing of engineers when you are also kind of thinking about sort of the appreciation for what it takes to build tech products? I was reading an article you wrote—I think last year—about realizing that it’s not really just about engineering, and realizing the value of learning things like understanding people and human behavior and communication skills and—you know—liberal arts and humanities. And the stuff that you hadn’t necessarily taken that seriously when you were in college as something that was important for ensuring that the things we’re making aren’t laced with bias or harmful to people, and being able to think through sort of the impact of our work. And so I’m curious how you think about those things together. Like okay—we value technical roles a lot and so it’s important to look at who are in the roles that we value the most. But are there also issues around the kinds of roles that are valued or the kinds of roles that even exist? And how do we sort of make sense of that? [30:25] TC Yeah, absolutely. I think our whole way of approaching technology building right now is pretty flawed. I think for a long time we’ve unquestioningly assumed that technology is always progress. So whatever we do in the software realm will be positive. And we’re seeing very clearly now that that’s not the case. It’s very easy for the software products that we’re building to be used for harm or used in ways that we didn’t anticipate. And for the people who are building these products, whether it’s the engineers running the code or everyone else involved, we do need to think more holistically and broadly and contextualize our work in society and understand what the impacts of technology are before we can assume that we’re doing good. Some people have drawn analogies after the election cycles in the last couple of years to the sorts of ethics considerations that other domains have had—so, chemical engineering or in physics. When the people in those fields realized that their work could be used to create weapons, they had to think pretty hard about doing science or doing this kind of research and I think the people in the tech industry and in software right now really need to have that same sort of introspection and deep questioning. For a long time in the tech industry, we’ve really downplayed the value of a humanities education and and I think that is problematic. You see that reflected in compensation. For example, who gets these big payouts, who gets really big salaries. It’s tricky because also the sorts of value of someone who can bring in terms of the ethical reasoning and product guidance, that work is not as easy to value, put a dollar amount on. It’s a little bit easier to look at what an engineer is producing or what a designer is producing and say this is the value of their work and it ties very directly to the final output and I think if the whole system is fundamentally shifted around, we can start to see the value that non-technical folks are bringing, then hopefully that is reflected in the compensation and payouts as well. At the same time, you have this very classic supply and demand type issues around sorts of talent that you need, so the engineering salaries will be high for a while because engineering is very obviously needed and there aren’t enough engineers to fill all the roles. Even if we were to recognize the value of the non technical work that needs to be done, if there is such a mismatch in supply and demand on the technical side, the salaries will still be higher there. So there’s a lot of things to address systemically, but I think one starting point even just within the companies that we’re looking at is trying to shift the culture to acknowledge the different viewpoints that different people from different educational backgrounds and different training can bring. SWB I think one of the things that’s also interesting and maybe compounds all of this, is the way that a lot of the kinds of roles that are more based in humanities or social sciences or that would benefit from that kind of background, they are tending to have a lot more representation of women in them, and so then you kind of have this interesting cross section of the skills are in less demand. Also we’re used to paying women less, or we’re used to putting women into sort of more caring roles versus rational roles, and so it’s hard to tease out all of those different issues that intertwine and result in gendering of who’s in what kinds of roles, and devaluing of some roles, and then also to have the conversation about well, “why is it that so many women are in these kinds of roles and not in these other kinds of roles?” And to be able to talk about all those things at the same time I think is really hard for a lot of people. It takes a lot of investment in the discussion to be able to pick apart things with that level of nuance, and I think a lot of the time organizations aren’t there yet. TC Yeah, I completely agree. [Laughs] There has been some research into when professions become more lucrative and prestigious how they—how the men tend to crowd the women out. So, there used to be more women in software engineering and they were kind of pushed out. So the 37% of CS degrees in 1984 went to women and it’s been declining, the percentage has been declining since then. But in other industries as well, one that I found kind of interesting was beer making used to be mostly women and then men found out that beer making was cool and it became all male brewmasters. Even in things like cooking, when men reach the top and become these top chefs, it’s very prestigious. Even though women still do most of the cooking around the world, it’s just not viewed as as prestigious or lucrative for them. So as you were saying, there’s all these interesting dynamics at play and it’s really hard to tease out specific effects. SWB Yeah totally—I think about some of the conversations I’ve had with folks when startups starting hiring people to do quote growth hacking and you’re like ‘wait a second—isn’t that—wait, aren’t they—isn’t that marketing? I think they’re doing marketing!’ [Laughter] But marketing was always more women in the field and growth hacking was this very hardcore bro kind of role. If anybody out there is a quote growth hacker as their title, I’m sorry if I’m making fun of your profession. But it is, it’s one of these made up titles that’s almost—I think—masculinized a lot of skill sets that were traditionally perceived as being more feminine. And then low and behold, those people are being paid a lot more money. TC I think you also see this reflected in the maker movement—where it’s been rebranded as this very male type of thing where you’re making things. But if you actually look at what is being done—creating things from the raw materials—that’s stuff that a lot of women have been doing in different domains, but it had to get rebranded for men to be super into it and for it to become prestigious. SWB Totally, like what’s not being a maker about being a knitter? TC Yeah! SWB You’re literally making things out of thread, right? [Laughs] TC Yep. SWB I’m amazed that we have not gotten to this yet because it’s so important, I want to talk about it. Okay, we have not talked about Project Include. So, you started doing all of this work to share this data that you were gathering and to talk about this issue. Can you tell us a little bit about how that grew into founding Project Include? TC Project Include was eight of us women in tech getting together a couple of years ago. So, there was a lot of discussion in the broader sphere about the problems and everything that was going wrong, but not nearly enough about solutions. And for the people that wanted to do the right thing, they still didn’t know what to do. So, we thought that the highest leverage thing we could do was write down our recommendations and resource—what we knew to be best practice around implementing diversity and inclusion. Our initial launch was just a website with a lot of recommendations—everything from defining culture, to implementing culture, to doing training, hiring, resolving conflicts, measuring progress, and also a framework to think about all those things, so it’s not just like pick and choose some of these tactics and apply them to your org and then you’ll be fine, but thinking through more holistically how to approach diversity and inclusion truly inclusively so it’s not just gender or just race or just one facet of diversity and then being very intentional about measuring progress. So, there was a bunch of these recommendations we wrote down. The feedback we got from the community was really positive and people wanted us to do more with it, which is how we ended up incorporating as a non profit and adding Startup Include as a program where we actually work with cohorts of companies on implementing these recommendations. But our hope is really to drive these solutions forward and we’re focused on startups for now. We think that the highest leverage opportunity is with startups before they become too big and are hard to steer—try to get those good practices and processes in early and hopefully some of the startups that are thinking about D&I early will end up becoming the big companies of tomorrow and they’ll already have baked in these best practices. We also acknowledge that what we think to be best practice now may change and so we really do want to build more of a community around these issues and solutions and kind of in the same way that open source software works where you put stuff out there, everyone can benefit from it. As they’re using it, they may think of ways to extend it or improve on it and they’re contributing that back to the community—we want that sort of a community around diversity and inclusion. SWB Yeah, that’s really interesting and I think it’s one thing to identify problems, it’s one thing to try to address them, but we clearly don’t really know how to fix this yet. So, I’m curious is there anything that you’ve found as you’ve been advising Project Include and sort of seeing it grow and adapt—is there anything that you’ve seen out there that you’ve really feel like you’ve been able to learn from and that’s helped to shape where you’re making recommendations now? [39:54] TC The biggest takeaways still are that you need metrics to understand where the opportunities are and also where things are going well. So we recommend that all companies do look at their data. It’s cool to see so many people trying out different things. I think it will take some amount of time before we learn which things really work in a long term sustainable way, but definitely excited to see lots of people experimenting with D&I now. SWB So Project Include, that was founded in 2016, right? You’ve got a couple of years of kind of starting to shape the organization and provide more than just your manifesto, but also the actual community and practices and working with these companies. So I’m excited to see what else comes out of that. TC Yeah, one thing we’ve been thinking a lot more about is how to achieve leverage impact across the industry and some of that is going to be working with other organizations. Earlier this year, a couple of us launched this project called Moving Forward to get venture capital firms to first of all, have anti-harassment policies and then publish them, make them available to founders and then also have points of contact as accountability. And so this came out of some of the #metoo harassment stuff that came out last year, where what we saw was that in that relationship between founders who were trying to raise money and venture capitalists that control this money, there is this gray zone of interaction where they’re not necessarily in a professional relationship yet. As in cases where there is a power imbalance, sometimes there are abuses of that power. So our idea was to push venture capital firms to be very explicit about what’s acceptable behavior between people that work at the firm and potential founders that they might want to be investing in or other people in the community. And so we launched Moving Forward, now have over one hundred firms that have their anti-harassment policies out there and the points of contact. This is something where I worked on that separate to Project Include, but we ended up realizing that there was a good opportunity for collaboration between Project Include and Moving Forward so I could serve as a little bit of that bridge. SWB That’s so cool, it’s sounds like you just have your hands into so many different parts of this problem and like trying to sort of untie the knot from lots of different angles, which I really love. TC Yeah, I mean there’s a lot to be done here—so lots of opportunity. KL That is so true. I feel like we’ve been talking a lot about your work as a diversity advocate and I just want to go back to you for a minute, because I saw you write a while ago that you don’t want to just work on diversity issues because you love to code and you like your life a lot more with that in it. How do you balance those things and stay excited about both? TC I still identify as a software engineer and someone that likes to build products and build things. Sometimes that means building teams and companies, but the diversity and inclusion piece will, I think, always be a part of my life and that conversation is still just so prominent in the industry, it’s hard to not take part of it. So that always be a part of what I do, but in my more full time capacity, I do like to be thinking just about technology, how powerful it is and how it can be used to hopefully impact the world for better. KL I’m also curious—you know—if the move from San Francisco to New York has had any impact? TC When so many things change all at once, it’s hard to say. I do think being in New York has helped to broaden my perspectives quite a bit. I’m not surrounded by tech people all the time and I like being around people who don’t think about the same things I do all the time and just to be surrounded by this greater diversity of people. SWB We talk a lot about place on the show because I feel like so many conversations in design or tech or publishing or whatever can be so limited to such narrow places, so I’m always interested in—you know—kinds of perspectives that people can bring in. So we are just about out of time and before we go, I wanted to say: Tracy, I have been personally inspired by your work for a long time and I know I’m not the only one. So I want to thank you for being on the show and ask you, is there anywhere that our listeners can better keep up with everything that you’re up to? TC The best place to keep up with me is Twitter, so I’m @triketora on Twitter. It’s t-r-i-k-e-t-o-r-a. I tweet a lot, so I also will not be offended if you follow and then unfollow because there’s too much going on, but that’s the best place to keep up with me. SWB Well I know that a lot of our listeners will definitely want to hear everything you have to say, even if you tweet all day. Thank you so much for being on the show. TC Ahh, thank you for having me! [music fades in, plays alone for five seconds, fades out] Career CHAT KL Hey y’all, time to talk careers with our friends at Shopify. This week we’ve got a tip on what to look for in a company from Shannon Gallagher, a product manager on the merchant analytics team. SG: Being a lifelong learner is super important to me. I need to constantly grow and push my boundaries. The nice thing is, that’s one of Shopify’s core values, too. When you make a positive impact here, you can move into new roles, new disciplines, and new spaces. That’s had a huge impact on my career. Two years ago, I was on the recruiting team. Now, I’m in product management… And I’m still expanding my knowledge and reaching for new goals every day. This kind of environment means I’ll never get bored—or feel like I’m stuck in one place. The point is, you’ll love work so much more if you’re with a company where the goal is growth! KL Thanks, Shannon! If you want to join a team where you can keep learning and make unexpected and wonderful moves—if you want—then you should check out Shopify. They’re growing globally, and they might just have the perfect role for you. See what’s new this week at shopify.com/careers. FYOTW JL Okay, so I’ve got a fuck yeah this week, ladies. KL Let’s hear it. JL Sutter and I are taking a vacation this week. SWB Fuck yeah! [Laughs] JL [Laughs] I know, I mean we could just stop there, mic drop. [All three laugh] JL But this vacation is to Wildwood, New Jersey—and for those unaware of the magic that is Wildwood—it’s a wonderful place at the Jersey Shore with boardwalk, food and funnel cake, and soft serve ice cream. And perhaps most importantly—it’s only a bit over an hour from Philadelphia. And here’s what we knew. We wanted some time to get away to ourselves, but we’re not really in the place where we wanted to plan something big or get on a flight. We just wanted some time with each other. That’s not because we don’t love our son, but two years ago we took a babymoon, which we gave ourselves a long weekend before a major change in our family. And we’re going to have that again soon, so we wanted to do something like that. But how do you get that time to yourselves when you have a toddler? So we were really thrown off and honestly I just—was like ‘that’s fine, we don’t really have to do it,’ like—not a big deal. But then this wild idea came to us. Why don’t we ask his parents if they’re available to watch Cooper for two nights? [45:48] KL What did they say? JL [Laughing] They said yes! KL Yaaay! JL And so it’s amazing what happens when you ask for help! KL That’s awesome. And also grandparents love to help in that way. JL It’s like—I don’t know why, but asking for what you need can be such a hard hurdle to overcome, but it can totally pay off awesomely, so I am saying fuck yeah to asking for help! KL That’s awesome. This actually resonates with me, too, because when I take time off at A Book Apart, I have to make a point of putting it on the calendar and asking folks to cover some stuff while I’m out so that I don’t have to worry about it or think about it. Because otherwise I would never actually really get time off. Like I have to actually set up that—you know—those boundaries and ask for help and I didn’t realize that until late in the game and I was like ‘oh, I actually need to raise my hand and do this so I can properly take some time off.’ So I love this. SWB I love this too because it’s actually a really good reminder for me. Because I think as both of you know—because you’ve called me on it before—I do not like to ask for help and I sort of take it almost as a point of pride to do it all myself. And that’s been good for me in some ways, but everybody needs help, myself included. And it’s one thing to ask for help, but it’s also another thing to actually accept the help and let go, right? Because part of what you’re saying, Katel, is that when you set that boundary where you’re like ‘okay, I’m taking a real vacation, can you please handle this for me’—you’re also saying ‘and I’m not going to check in so I need to be confident that it’s handled.’ KL [Laughing] Yeah. SWB Right? And I think that’s something that’s hard for me—just to fully let go and to just say ‘nope, this is handled and I’m not going to get all anxious about this, I’m just going to accept that it’s handled.’ And I realize it’s not a lack of trust—it’s like I trust them—but it’s almost like my brain doesn’t trust me enough to fully let go, you know? [Laughter] KL Yeah. SWB I have to remind myself like no no no no no, you asked for help, now your job is to take the help and then walk away. JL Yeah and it’s—it is hard to do things like that, but I think it gets better with practice. I mean, I read a bunch last year—some manager books and they talk a lot about just delegating things, delegating tasks and how important that is. But what’s really important is when you delegate the tasks, to trust that they’re going to get done and then be okay with the fact that whoever does them will probably veer from the way you were going to do it. So, we left an agenda or notes of what Coop’s normal day is for the grandparents and not to be like ‘you have to do it this way,’ but just so they have a guide-ish like ‘here’s what we would do.’ But I understand if you’re not going to do it exactly the same way and you know what, that’s okay. I’m okay with that, thank you for the help. I’m going to be able to now focus on other things that are more important than making sure that you did this exactly the way I would have done it. KL Yeah, I think that is so true. I’m thinking about this and I feel like we need to come up with an acronym for all the parts so… accept help, let go, enjoy—ALE! [Laughter] SWB That’s also what I would like to have on my next vacation. KL Yeah, exactly. [laughs] Well, fuck yeah to asking for help and to getting it, and we hope you enjoy. SWB Eat some funnel cake for me. JL Okay. [Laughing] You got it! SWB Well, that is it for this week’s episode of No, You Go—the show about being ambitious and sticking together. NYG is recorded in our home city of Philadelphia and is produced by Steph Colbourn. Our theme music is by The Diaphone. Thank you so much to Tracy Chou for being on the show today. If you like what you’ve been hearing, thank you so much, you’re the best. And you could be even more the best if you would take a moment to leave us a rating or review on your podcast listening app of choice and let your friends know about No, You Go because we’d love to have them here too. We’ll be back again next week! 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The US Digital Service was created by Obama in August of 2014, USDS is a “startup at the White House who’s focus is to bring together the best technology, design, and government talent.” USDS works on three critical national priorities: modernizing immigration, Veterans’ benefits, and HealthCare.gov. Affectionally known as Obama’s nergs, today, they operate in Departments of Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Defense, Education, Health and Human Services, and the Small Business Administration. I bring in 4 USDS’ers to talk about what it’s like working in tech in the Government (its both not as bad and way worse than you think it is!). Here is my interview with Jordan Kaspar, Kristen Tran, Robbie Holmes, and Aileen Chen.
The Trump administration doesn't hold much regard for asylum seekers or projects started by President Obama. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has moved to keep more asylum seekers in detention. Trump has rolled back Obama-era initiatives wholesale since taking office. Yet in one corner of the White House, a team of idealistic tech workers established by Obama is helping the Department of Homeland Security offer asylum seekers better customer service.
Hear about the latest initiatives from the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) and dCode, including a new digital initiative at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Joining host Ben Carnes will be Megan Vorland, Director of Programs at dCode, and Nicholas Holtz from the Digital Service’s Veterans Affairs team.
Hear about the latest initiatives from the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) and dCode, including a new digital initiative at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Joining host Ben Carnes will be Megan Vorland, Director of Programs at dCode, and Nicholas Holtz from the Digital Service’s Veterans Affairs team.
The US Digital Service has launched version 2 of the BlueButton API. The BlueButton API covers the Medicare claims domain within the FHIR healthcare data portability standard and now that BlueButton 2.0 is out, many organizations that orbit the Medicare ecosystem will be rolling out their support for it in an effort to improve patient and caregiver access to what is commonly referred to as the longitudinal patient record: a record that covers the broad history of a particular patient's healthcare and that is interoperable across all systems that are relevant to the patient's care. In this interview, ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews USDS product manager Kelly Service about the significance of the launch.
The U.S. Transportation Command brought in the U.S Digital Service after its Defense Personnel Property System suffered a two-week outage. Executive Editor Jason Miller has more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Jennifer Pahlka was a founder of U.S. Digital Service, the Obama-era organization devoted to helping federal agencies modernize their information technology. She's preached the gospel of agile development, and chided federal contractors for not getting with the agile program faster. Now Pahlka has widened her scope with a project called Code For America. She joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin now with a look at federal IT.
We take a look at two-faced Oracle, cover a FAMP installation, how Netflix works the complex stuff, and show you who the patron of yak shaving is. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Why is Oracle so two-faced over open source? (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/12/oracle_must_grow_up_on_open_source/) Oracle loves open source. Except when the database giant hates open source. Which, according to its recent lobbying of the US federal government, seems to be "most of the time". Yes, Oracle has recently joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to up its support for open-source Kubernetes and, yes, it has long supported (and contributed to) Linux. And, yes, Oracle has even gone so far as to (finally) open up Java development by putting it under a foundation's stewardship. Yet this same, seemingly open Oracle has actively hammered the US government to consider that "there is no math that can justify open source from a cost perspective as the cost of support plus the opportunity cost of forgoing features, functions, automation and security overwhelm any presumed cost savings." That punch to the face was delivered in a letter to Christopher Liddell, a former Microsoft CFO and now director of Trump's American Technology Council, by Kenneth Glueck, Oracle senior vice president. The US government had courted input on its IT modernisation programme. Others writing back to Liddell included AT&T, Cisco, Microsoft and VMware. In other words, based on its letter, what Oracle wants us to believe is that open source leads to greater costs and poorly secured, limply featured software. Nor is Oracle content to leave it there, also arguing that open source is exactly how the private sector does not function, seemingly forgetting that most of the leading infrastructure, big data, and mobile software today is open source. Details! Rather than take this counterproductive detour into self-serving silliness, Oracle would do better to follow Microsoft's path. Microsoft, too, used to Janus-face its way through open source, simultaneously supporting and bashing it. Only under chief executive Satya Nadella's reign did Microsoft realise it's OK to fully embrace open source, and its financial results have loved the commitment. Oracle has much to learn, and emulate, in Microsoft's approach. I love you, you're perfect. Now change Oracle has never been particularly warm and fuzzy about open source. As founder Larry Ellison might put it, Oracle is a profit-seeking corporation, not a peace-loving charity. To the extent that Oracle embraces open source, therefore it does so for financial reward, just like every other corporation. Few, however, are as blunt as Oracle about this fact of corporate open-source life. As Ellison told the Financial Times back in 2006: "If an open-source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it – a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. "So it is not disruptive at all – you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane... We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source." "Exploit" sounds about right. While Oracle doesn't crack the top-10 corporate contributors to the Linux kernel, it does register a respectable number 12, which helps it influence the platform enough to feel comfortable building its IaaS offering on Linux (and Xen for virtualisation). Oracle has also managed to continue growing MySQL's clout in the industry while improving it as a product and business. As for Kubernetes, Oracle's decision to join the CNCF also came with P&L strings attached. "CNCF technologies such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, gRPC and OpenTracing are critical parts of both our own and our customers' development toolchains," said Mark Cavage, vice president of software development at Oracle. One can argue that Oracle has figured out the exploitation angle reasonably well. This, however, refers to the right kind of exploitation, the kind that even free software activist Richard Stallman can love (or, at least, tolerate). But when it comes to government lobbying, Oracle looks a lot more like Mr Hyde than Dr Jekyll. Lies, damned lies, and Oracle lobbying The current US president has many problems (OK, many, many problems), but his decision to follow the Obama administration's support for IT modernisation is commendable. Most recently, the Trump White House asked for feedback on how best to continue improving government IT. Oracle's response is high comedy in many respects. As TechDirt's Mike Masnick summarises, Oracle's "latest crusade is against open-source technology being used by the federal government – and against the government hiring people out of Silicon Valley to help create more modern systems. Instead, Oracle would apparently prefer the government just give it lots of money." Oracle is very good at making lots of money. As such, its request for even more isn't too surprising. What is surprising is the brazenness of its position. As Masnick opines: "The sheer contempt found in Oracle's submission on IT modernization is pretty stunning." Why? Because Oracle contradicts much that it publicly states in other forums about open source and innovation. More than this, Oracle contradicts much of what we now know is essential to competitive differentiation in an increasingly software and data-driven world. Take, for example, Oracle's contention that "significant IT development expertise is not... central to successful modernization efforts". What? In our "software is eating the world" existence Oracle clearly believes that CIOs are buyers, not doers: "The most important skill set of CIOs today is to critically compete and evaluate commercial alternatives to capture the benefits of innovation conducted at scale, and then to manage the implementation of those technologies efficiently." While there is some truth to Oracle's claim – every project shouldn't be a custom one-off that must be supported forever – it's crazy to think that a CIO – government or otherwise – is doing their job effectively by simply shovelling cash into vendors' bank accounts. Indeed, as Masnick points out: "If it weren't for Oracle's failures, there might not even be a USDS [the US Digital Service created in 2014 to modernise federal IT]. USDS really grew out of the emergency hiring of some top-notch internet engineers in response to the Healthcare.gov rollout debacle. And if you don't recall, a big part of that debacle was blamed on Oracle's technology." In short, blindly giving money to Oracle and other big vendors is the opposite of IT modernisation. In its letter to Liddell, Oracle proceeded to make the fantastic (by which I mean "silly and false") claim that "the fact is that the use of open-source software has been declining rapidly in the private sector". What?!? This is so incredibly untrue that Oracle should score points for being willing to say it out loud. Take a stroll through the most prominent software in big data (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.), mobile (Android), application development (Kubernetes, Docker), machine learning/AI (TensorFlow, MxNet), and compare it to Oracle's statement. One conclusion must be that Oracle believes its CIO audience is incredibly stupid. Oracle then tells a half-truth by declaring: "There is no math that can justify open source from a cost perspective." How so? Because "the cost of support plus the opportunity cost of forgoing features, functions, automation and security overwhelm any presumed cost savings." Which I guess is why Oracle doesn't use any open source like Linux, Kubernetes, etc. in its services. Oops. The Vendor Formerly Known As Satan The thing is, Oracle doesn't need to do this and, for its own good, shouldn't do this. After all, we already know how this plays out. We need only look at what happened with Microsoft. Remember when Microsoft wanted us to "get the facts" about Linux? Now it's a big-time contributor to Linux. Remember when it told us open source was anti-American and a cancer? Now it aggressively contributes to a huge variety of open-source projects, some of them homegrown in Redmond, and tells the world that "Microsoft loves open source." Of course, Microsoft loves open source for the same reason any corporation does: it drives revenue as developers look to build applications filled with open-source components on Azure. There's nothing wrong with that. Would Microsoft prefer government IT to purchase SQL Server instead of open-source-licensed PostgreSQL? Sure. But look for a single line in its response to the Trump executive order that signals "open source is bad". You won't find it. Why? Because Microsoft understands that open source is a friend, not foe, and has learned how to monetise it. Microsoft, in short, is no longer conflicted about open source. It can compete at the product level while embracing open source at the project level, which helps fuel its overall product and business strategy. Oracle isn't there yet, and is still stuck where Microsoft was a decade ago. It's time to grow up, Oracle. For a company that builds great software and understands that it increasingly needs to depend on open source to build that software, it's disingenuous at best to lobby the US government to put the freeze on open source. Oracle needs to learn from Microsoft, stop worrying and love the open-source bomb. It was a key ingredient in Microsoft's resurgence. Maybe it could help Oracle get a cloud clue, too. Install FAMP on FreeBSD (https://www.linuxsecrets.com/home/3164-install-famp-on-freebsd) The acronym FAMP refers to a set of free open source applications which are commonly used in Web server environments called Apache, MySQL and PHP on the FreeBSD operating system, which provides a server stack that provides web services, database and PHP. Prerequisites sudo Installed and working - Please read Apache PHP5 or PHP7 MySQL or MariaDB Install your favorite editor, ours is vi Note: You don't need to upgrade FreeBSD but make sure all patches have been installed and your port tree is up-2-date if you plan to update by ports. Install Ports portsnap fetch You must use sudo for each indivdual command during installations. Please see link above for installing sudo. Searching Available Apache Versions to Install pkg search apache Install Apache To install Apache 2.4 using pkg. The apache 2.4 user account managing Apache is www in FreeBSD. pkg install apache24 Confirmation yes prompt and hit y for yes to install Apache 2.4 This installs Apache and its dependencies. Enable Apache use sysrc to update services to be started at boot time, Command below adds "apache24enable="YES" to the /etc/rc.conf file. For sysrc commands please read ```sysrc apache24enable=yes Start Apache service apache24 start``` Visit web address by accessing your server's public IP address in your web browser How To find Your Server's Public IP Address If you do not know what your server's public IP address is, there are a number of ways that you can find it. Usually, this is the address you use to connect to your server through SSH. ifconfig vtnet0 | grep "inet " | awk '{ print $2 }' Now that you have the public IP address, you may use it in your web browser's address bar to access your web server. Install MySQL Now that we have our web server up and running, it is time to install MySQL, the relational database management system. The MySQL server will organize and provide access to databases where our server can store information. Install MySQL 5.7 using pkg by typing pkg install mysql57-server Enter y at the confirmation prompt. This installs the MySQL server and client packages. To enable MySQL server as a service, add mysqlenable="YES" to the /etc/rc.conf file. This sysrc command will do just that ```sysrc mysqlenable=yes Now start the MySQL server service mysql-server start Now run the security script that will remove some dangerous defaults and slightly restrict access to your database system. mysqlsecureinstallation``` Answer all questions to secure your newly installed MySQL database. Enter current password for root (enter for none): [RETURN] Your database system is now set up and we can move on. Install PHP5 or PHP70 pkg search php70 Install PHP70 you would do the following by typing pkg install php70-mysqli mod_php70 Note: In these instructions we are using php5.7 not php7.0. We will be coming out with php7.0 instructions with FPM. PHP is the component of our setup that will process code to display dynamic content. It can run scripts, connect to MySQL databases to get information, and hand the processed content over to the web server to display. We're going to install the modphp, php-mysql, and php-mysqli packages. To install PHP 5.7 with pkg, run this command ```pkg install modphp56 php56-mysql php56-mysqli Copy sample PHP configuration file into place. cp /usr/local/etc/php.ini-production /usr/local/etc/php.ini Regenerate the system's cached information about your installed executable files rehash``` Before using PHP, you must configure it to work with Apache. Install PHP Modules (Optional) To enhance the functionality of PHP, we can optionally install some additional modules. To see the available options for PHP 5.6 modules and libraries, you can type this into your system pkg search php56 Get more information about each module you can look at the long description of the package by typing pkg search -f apache24 Optional Install Example pkg install php56-calendar Configure Apache to Use PHP Module Open the Apache configuration file vim /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/php.conf DirectoryIndex index.php index.html Next, we will configure Apache to process requested PHP files with the PHP processor. Add these lines to the end of the file: SetHandler application/x-httpd-php SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source Now restart Apache to put the changes into effect service apache24 restart Test PHP Processing By default, the DocumentRoot is set to /usr/local/www/apache24/data. We can create the info.php file under that location by typing vim /usr/local/www/apache24/data/info.php Add following line to info.php and save it. Details on info.php info.php file gives you information about your server from the perspective of PHP. It' useful for debugging and to ensure that your settings are being applied correctly. If this was successful, then your PHP is working as expected. You probably want to remove info.php after testing because it could actually give information about your server to unauthorized users. Remove file by typing rm /usr/local/www/apache24/data/info.php Note: Make sure Apache / meaning the root of Apache is owned by user which should have been created during the Apache install is the owner of the /usr/local/www structure. That explains FAMP on FreeBSD. IXsystems IXsystems TrueNAS X10 Torture Test & Fail Over Systems In Action with the ZFS File System (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG_NvKuh530) How Netflix works: what happens every time you hit Play (https://medium.com/refraction-tech-everything/how-netflix-works-the-hugely-simplified-complex-stuff-that-happens-every-time-you-hit-play-3a40c9be254b) Not long ago, House of Cards came back for the fifth season, finally ending a long wait for binge watchers across the world who are interested in an American politician's ruthless ascendance to presidency. For them, kicking off a marathon is as simple as reaching out for your device or remote, opening the Netflix app and hitting Play. Simple, fast and instantly gratifying. What isn't as simple is what goes into running Netflix, a service that streams around 250 million hours of video per day to around 98 million paying subscribers in 190 countries. At this scale, providing quality entertainment in a matter of a few seconds to every user is no joke. And as much as it means building top-notch infrastructure at a scale no other Internet service has done before, it also means that a lot of participants in the experience have to be negotiated with and kept satiated?—?from production companies supplying the content, to internet providers dealing with the network traffic Netflix brings upon them. This is, in short and in the most layman terms, how Netflix works. Let us just try to understand how Netflix is structured on the technological side with a simple example. Netflix literally ushered in a revolution around ten years ago by rewriting the applications that run the entire service to fit into a microservices architecture?—?which means that each application, or microservice's code and resources are its very own. It will not share any of it with any other app by nature. And when two applications do need to talk to each other, they use an application programming interface (API)?—?a tightly-controlled set of rules that both programs can handle. Developers can now make many changes, small or huge, to each application as long as they ensure that it plays well with the API. And since the one program knows the other's API properly, no change will break the exchange of information. Netflix estimates that it uses around 700 microservices to control each of the many parts of what makes up the entire Netflix service: one microservice stores what all shows you watched, one deducts the monthly fee from your credit card, one provides your device with the correct video files that it can play, one takes a look at your watching history and uses algorithms to guess a list of movies that you will like, and one will provide the names and images of these movies to be shown in a list on the main menu. And that's the tip of the iceberg. Netflix engineers can make changes to any part of the application and can introduce new changes rapidly while ensuring that nothing else in the entire service breaks down. They made a courageous decision to get rid of maintaining their own servers and move all of their stuff to the cloud?—?i.e. run everything on the servers of someone else who dealt with maintaining the hardware while Netflix engineers wrote hundreds of programs and deployed it on the servers rapidly. The someone else they chose for their cloud-based infrastructure is Amazon Web Services (AWS). Netflix works on thousands of devices, and each of them play a different format of video and sound files. Another set of AWS servers take this original film file, and convert it into hundreds of files, each meant to play the entire show or film on a particular type of device and a particular screen size or video quality. One file will work exclusively on the iPad, one on a full HD Android phone, one on a Sony TV that can play 4K video and Dolby sound, one on a Windows computer, and so on. Even more of these files can be made with varying video qualities so that they are easier to load on a poor network connection. This is a process known as transcoding. A special piece of code is also added to these files to lock them with what is called digital rights management or DRM?—?a technological measure which prevents piracy of films. The Netflix app or website determines what particular device you are using to watch, and fetches the exact file for that show meant to specially play on your particular device, with a particular video quality based on how fast your internet is at that moment. Here, instead of relying on AWS servers, they install their very own around the world. But it has only one purpose?—?to store content smartly and deliver it to users. Netflix strikes deals with internet service providers and provides them the red box you saw above at no cost. ISPs install these along with their servers. These Open Connect boxes download the Netflix library for their region from the main servers in the US?—?if there are multiple of them, each will rather store content that is more popular with Netflix users in a region to prioritise speed. So a rarely watched film might take time to load more than a Stranger Things episode. Now, when you will connect to Netflix, the closest Open Connect box to you will deliver the content you need, thus videos load faster than if your Netflix app tried to load it from the main servers in the US. In a nutshell… This is what happens when you hit that Play button: Hundreds of microservices, or tiny independent programs, work together to make one large Netflix service. Content legally acquired or licensed is converted into a size that fits your screen, and protected from being copied. Servers across the world make a copy of it and store it so that the closest one to you delivers it at max quality and speed. When you select a show, your Netflix app cherry picks which of these servers will it load the video from> You are now gripped by Frank Underwood's chilling tactics, given depression by BoJack Horseman's rollercoaster life, tickled by Dev in Master of None and made phobic to the future of technology by the stories in Black Mirror. And your lifespan decreases as your binge watching turns you into a couch potato. It looked so simple before, right? News Roundup Moving FreshPorts (http://dan.langille.org/2017/11/15/moving-freshports/) Today I moved the FreshPorts website from one server to another. My goal is for nobody to notice. In preparation for this move, I have: DNS TTL reduced to 60s Posted to Twitter Updated the status page Put the website put in offline mode: What was missed I turned off commit processing on the new server, but I did not do this on the old server. I should have: sudo svc -d /var/service/freshports That stops processing of incoming commits. No data is lost, but it keeps the two databases at the same spot in history. Commit processing could continue during the database dumping, but that does not affect the dump, which will be consistent regardless. The offline code Here is the basic stuff I used to put the website into offline mode. The main points are: header(“HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable”); ErrorDocument 404 /index.php I move the DocumentRoot to a new directory, containing only index.php. Every error invokes index.php, which returns a 503 code. The dump The database dump just started (Sun Nov 5 17:07:22 UTC 2017). root@pg96:~ # /usr/bin/time pg_dump -h 206.127.23.226 -Fc -U dan freshports.org > freshports.org.9.6.dump That should take about 30 minutes. I have set a timer to remind me. Total time was: 1464.82 real 1324.96 user 37.22 sys The MD5 is: MD5 (freshports.org.9.6.dump) = 5249b45a93332b8344c9ce01245a05d5 It is now: Sun Nov 5 17:34:07 UTC 2017 The rsync The rsync should take about 10-20 minutes. I have already done an rsync of yesterday's dump file. The rsync today should copy over only the deltas (i.e. differences). The rsync started at about Sun Nov 5 17:36:05 UTC 2017 That took 2m9.091s The MD5 matches. The restore The restore should take about 30 minutes. I ran this test yesterday. It is now Sun Nov 5 17:40:03 UTC 2017. $ createdb -T template0 -E SQL_ASCII freshports.testing $ time pg_restore -j 16 -d freshports.testing freshports.org.9.6.dump Done. real 25m21.108s user 1m57.508s sys 0m15.172s It is now Sun Nov 5 18:06:22 UTC 2017. Insert break here About here, I took a 30 minute break to run an errand. It was worth it. Changing DNS I'm ready to change DNS now. It is Sun Nov 5 19:49:20 EST 2017 Done. And nearly immediately, traffic started. How many misses? During this process, XXXXX requests were declined: $ grep -c '" 503 ' /usr/websites/log/freshports.org-access.log XXXXX That's it, we're done Total elapsed time: 1 hour 48 minutes. There are still a number of things to follow up on, but that was the transfers. The new FreshPorts Server (http://dan.langille.org/2017/11/17/x8dtu-3/) *** Using bhyve on top of CEPH (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2017-November/005876.html) Hi, Just an info point. I'm preparing for a lecture tomorrow, and thought why not do an actual demo.... Like to be friends with Murphy :) So after I started the cluster: 5 jails with 7 OSDs This what I manually needed to do to boot a memory stick Start een Bhyve instance rbd --dest-pool rbddata --no-progress import memstick.img memstick rbd-ggate map rbddata/memstick ggate-devvice is available on /dev/ggate1 kldload vmm kldload nmdm kldload iftap kldload ifbridge kldload cpuctl sysctl net.link.tap.uponopen=1 ifconfig bridge0 create ifconfig bridge0 addm em0 up ifconfig ifconfig tap11 create ifconfig bridge0 addm tap11 ifconfig tap11 up load the GGate disk in bhyve bhyveload -c /dev/nmdm11A -m 2G -d /dev/ggate1 FB11 and boot a single from it. bhyve -H -P -A -c 1 -m 2G -l com1,/dev/nmdm11A -s 0:0,hostbridge -s 1:0,lpc -s 2:0,virtio-net,tap11 -s 4,ahci-hd,/dev/ggate1 FB11 & bhyvectl --vm=FB11 --get-stats Connect to the VM cu -l /dev/nmdm11B And that'll give you a bhyve VM running on an RBD image over ggate. In the installer I tested reading from the bootdisk: root@:/ # dd if=/dev/ada0 of=/dev/null bs=32M 21+1 records in 21+1 records out 734077952 bytes transferred in 5.306260 secs (138341865 bytes/sec) which is a nice 138Mb/sec. Hope the demonstration does work out tomorrow. --WjW *** Donald Knuth - The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (http://yakshav.es/the-patron-saint-of-yakshaves/) Excerpts: In 2015, I gave a talk in which I called Donald Knuth the Patron Saint of Yak Shaves. The reason is that Donald Knuth achieved the most perfect and long-running yak shave: TeX. I figured this is worth repeating. How to achieve the ultimate Yak Shave The ultimate yak shave is the combination of improbable circumstance, the privilege to be able to shave at your hearts will and the will to follow things through to the end. Here's the way it was achieved with TeX. The recount is purely mine, inaccurate and obviously there for fun. I'll avoid the most boring facts that everyone always tells, such as why Knuth's checks have their own Wikipedia page. Community Shaving is Best Shaving Since the release of TeX, the community has been busy working on using it as a platform. If you ever downloaded the full TeX distribution, please bear in mind that you are downloading the amassed work of over 40 years, to make sure that each and every TeX document ever written builds. We're talking about documents here. But mostly, two big projects sprung out of that. The first is LaTeX by Leslie Lamport. Lamport is a very productive researcher, famous for research in formal methods through TLA+ and also known laying groundwork for many distributed algorithms. LaTeX is based on the idea of separating presentation and content. It is based around the idea of document classes, which then describe the way a certain document is laid out. Think Markdown, just much more complex. The second is ConTeXt, which is far more focused on fine grained layout control. The Moral of the Story Whenever you feel like “can't we just replace this whole thing, it can't be so hard” when handling TeX, don't forget how many years of work and especially knowledge were poured into that system. Typesetting isn't the most popular knowledge around programmers. Especially see it in the context of the space it is in: they can't remove legacy. Ever. That would break documents. TeX is also not a programming language. It might resemble one, but mostly, it should be approached as a typesetting system first. A lot of it's confusing lingo gets much better then. It's not programming lingo. By approaching TeX with an understanding for its history, a lot of things can be learned from it. And yes, a replacement would be great, but it would take ages. In any case, I hope I thoroughly convinced you why Donald Knuth is the Patron Saint of Yak Shaves. Extra Credits This comes out of a enjoyable discussion with [Arne from Lambda Island](https://lambdaisland.com/https://lambdaisland.com/, who listened and said “you should totally turn this into a talk”. Vincent's trip to EuroBSDCon 2017 (http://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20171016) My euroBSDCon 2017 Posted on 2017-10-16 09:43:00 from Vincent in Open Bsd Let me just share my feedback on those 2 days spent in Paris for the EuroBSDCon. My 1st BSDCon. I'm not a developer, contributor, ... Do not expect to improve your skills with OpenBSD with this text :-) I know, we are on October 16th, and the EuroBSDCon of Paris was 3 weeks ago :( I'm not quick !!! Sorry for that Arrival at 10h, I'm too late for the start of the key note. The few persons behind a desk welcome me by talking in Dutch, mainly because of my name. Indeed, Delft is a city in Netherlands, but also a well known university. I inform them that I'm from Belgium, and the discussion moves to the fact the Fosdem is located in Brussels. I receive my nice T-shirt white and blue, a bit like the marine T-shirts, but with the nice EuroBSDCon logo. I'm asking where are the different rooms reserved for the BSD event. We have 1 big on the 1st floor, 1 medium 1 level below, and 2 smalls 1 level above. All are really easy to access. In this entrance we have 4 or 5 tables with some persons representing their company. Those are mainly the big sponsors of the event providing details about their activity and business. I discuss a little bit with StormShield and Gandi. On other tables people are selling BSD t-shirts, and they will quickly be sold. "Is it done yet ?" The never ending story of pkg tools In the last Fosdem, I've already hear Antoine and Baptiste presenting the OpenBSD and FreeBSD battle, I decide to listen Marc Espie in the medium room called Karnak. Marc explains that he has rewritten completely the pkg_add command. He explains that, at contrario with other elements of OpenBSD, the packages tools must be backward compatible and stable on a longer period than 12 months (the support period for OpenBSD). On the funny side, he explains that he has his best idea inside his bath. Hackathons are also used to validate some ideas with other OpenBSD developers. All in all, he explains that the most time consuming part is to imagine a good solution. Coding it is quite straightforward. He adds that better an idea is, shorter the implementation will be. A Tale of six motherboards, three BSDs and coreboot After the lunch I decide to listen the talk about Coreboot. Indeed, 1 or 2 years ago I had listened the Libreboot project at Fosdem. Since they did several references to Coreboot, it's a perfect occasion to listen more carefully to this project. Piotr and Katazyba Kubaj explains us how to boot a machine without the native Bios. Indeed Coreboot can replace the bios, and de facto avoid several binaries imposed by the vendor. They explain that some motherboards are supporting their code. But they also show how difficult it is to flash a Bios and replace it by Coreboot. They even have destroyed a motherboard during the installation. Apparently because the power supply they were using was not stable enough with the 3v. It's really amazing to see that open source developers can go, by themselves, to such deep technical level. State of the DragonFly's graphics stack After this Coreboot talk, I decide to stay in the room to follow the presentation of Fran?ois Tigeot. Fran?ois is now one of the core developer of DrangonflyBSD, an amazing BSD system having his own filesystem called Hammer. Hammer offers several amazing features like snapshots, checksum data integrity, deduplication, ... Francois has spent his last years to integrate the video drivers developed for Linux inside DrangonflyBSD. He explains that instead of adapting this code for the video card to the kernel API of DrangonflyBSD, he has "simply" build an intermediate layer between the kernel of DragonflyBSD and the video drivers. This is not said in the talk, but this effort is very impressive. Indeed, this is more or less a linux emulator inside DragonflyBSD. Francois explains that he has started with Intel video driver (drm/i915), but now he is able to run drm/radeon quite well, but also drm/amdgpu and drm/nouveau. Discovering OpenBSD on AWS Then I move to the small room at the upper level to follow a presentation made by Laurent Bernaille on OpenBSD and AWS. First Laurent explains that he is re-using the work done by Antoine Jacoutot concerning the integration of OpenBSD inside AWS. But on top of that he has integrated several other Open Source solutions allowing him to build OpenBSD machines very quickly with one command. Moreover those machines will have the network config, the required packages, ... On top of the slides presented, he shows us, in a real demo, how this system works. Amazing presentation which shows that, by putting the correct tools together, a machine builds and configure other machines in one go. OpenBSD Testing Infrastructure Behind bluhm.genua.de Here Jan Klemkow explains us that he has setup a lab where he is able to run different OpenBSD architectures. The system has been designed to be able to install, on demand, a certain version of OpenBSD on the different available machines. On top of that a regression test script can be triggered. This provides reports showing what is working and what is not more working on the different machines. If I've well understood, Jan is willing to provide such lab to the core developers of OpenBSD in order to allow them to validate easily and quickly their code. Some more effort is needed to reach this goal, but with what exists today, Jan and his colleague are quite close. Since his company is using OpenBSD business, to his eyes this system is a "tit for tat" to the OpenBSD community. French story on cybercrime Then comes the second keynote of the day in the big auditorium. This talk is performed by the colonel of french gendarmerie. Mr Freyssinet, who is head of the Cyber crimes unit inside the Gendarmerie. Mr Freyssinet explains that the "bad guys" are more and more volatile across countries, and more and more organized. The small hacker in his room, alone, is no more the reality. As a consequence the different national police investigators are collaborating more inside an organization called Interpol. What is amazing in his talk is that Mr Freyssinet talks about "Crime as a service". Indeed, more and more hackers are selling their services to some "bad and temporary organizations". Social event It's now time for the famous social event on the river: la Seine. The organizers ask us to go, by small groups, to a station. There is a walk of 15 minutes inside Paris. Hopefully the weather is perfect. To identify them clearly several organizers takes a "beastie fork" in their hands and walk on the sidewalk generating some amazing reactions from some citizens and toursits. Some of them recognize the Freebsd logo and ask us some details. Amazing :-) We walk on small and big sidewalks until a small stair going under the street. There, we have a train station a bit like a metro station. 3 stations later they ask us to go out. We walk few minutes and come in front of a boat having a double deck: one inside, with nice tables and chairs and one on the roof. But the crew ask us to go up, on the second deck. There, we are welcome with a glass of wine. The tour Eiffel is just at few 100 meters from us. Every hour the Eiffel tower is blinking for 5 minutes with thousands of small lights. Brilliant :-) We see also the "statue de la libertee" (the small one) which is on a small island in the middle of the river. During the whole night the bar will be open with drinks and some appetizers, snacks, ... Such walking diner is perfect to talk with many different persons. I've discussed with several persons just using BSD, they are not, like me, deep and specialized developers. One was from Switzerland, another one from Austria, and another one from Netherlands. But I've also followed a discussion with Theo de Raadt, several persons of the FreeBSD foundation. Some are very technical guys, other just users, like me. But all with the same passion for one of the BSD system. Amazing evening. OpenBSD's small steps towards DTrace (a tale about DDB and CTF) On the second day, I decide to sleep enough in order to have enough resources to drive back to my home (3 hours by car). So I miss the 1st presentations, and arrive at the event around 10h30. Lot of persons are already present. Some faces are less "fresh" than others. I decide to listen to Dtrace in OpenBSD. After 10 minutes I am so lost into those too technical explainations, that I decide to open and look at my PC. My OpenBSD laptop is rarely leaving my home, so I've never had the need to have a screen locking system. In a crowded environment, this is better. So I was looking for a simple solution. I've looked at how to use xlock. I've combined it with the /ets/apm/suspend script, ... Always very easy to use OpenBSD :-) The OpenBSD web stack Then I decide to follow the presentation of Michael W Lucas. Well know person for his different books about "Absolute OpenBSD", Relayd", ... Michael talks about the httpd daemon inside OpenBSD. But he also present his integration with Carp, Relayd, PF, FastCGI, the rules based on LUA regexp (opposed to perl regexp), ... For sure he emphasis on the security aspect of those tools: privilege separation, chroot, ... OpenSMTPD, current state of affairs Then I follow the presentation of Gilles Chehade about the OpenSMTPD project. Amazing presentation that, on top of the technical challenges, shows how to manage such project across the years. Gilles is working on OpenSMTPD since 2007, thus 10 years !!!. He explains the different decisions they took to make the software as simple as possible to use, but as secure as possible, too: privilege separation, chroot, pledge, random malloc, ? . The development starts on BSD systems, but once quite well known they received lot of contributions from Linux developers. Hoisting: lessons learned integrating pledge into 500 programs After a small break, I decide to listen to Theo de Raadt, the founder of OpenBSD. In his own style, with trekking boots, shorts, backpack. Theo starts by saying that Pledge is the outcome of nightmares. Theo explains that the book called "Hacking blind" presenting the BROP has worried him since few years. That's why he developed Pledge as a tool killing a process as soon as possible when there is an unforeseen behavior of this program. For example, with Pledge a program which can only write to disk will be immediately killed if he tries to reach network. By implementing Pledge in the +-500 programs present in the "base", OpenBSD is becoming more secured and more robust. Conclusion My first EuroBSDCon was a great, interesting and cool event. I've discussed with several BSD enthusiasts. I'm using OpenBSD since 2010, but I'm not a developer, so I was worried to be "lost" in the middle of experts. In fact it was not the case. At EuroBSDCon you have many different type of enthusiasts BSD's users. What is nice with the EuroBSDCon is that the organizers foresee everything for you. You just have to sit and listen. They foresee even how to spend, in a funny and very cool attitude, the evening of Saturday. > The small draw back is that all of this has a cost. In my case the whole weekend cost me a bit more than 500euro. Based on what I've learned, what I've saw this is very acceptable price. Nearly all presentations I saw give me a valuable input for my daily job. For sure, the total price is also linked to my personal choice: hotel, parking. And I'm surely biased because I'm used to go to the Fosdem in Brussels which cost nothing (entrance) and is approximately 45 minutes of my home. But Fosdem is not the same atmosphere and presentations are less linked to my daily job. I do not regret my trip to EuroBSDCon and will surely plan other ones. Beastie Bits Important munitions lawyering (https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/10/important-munitions-lawyering/) AsiaBSDCon 2018 CFP is now open, until December 15th (https://2018.asiabsdcon.org/) ZSTD Compression for ZFS by Allan Jude (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnWEitDPlM&feature=share) NetBSD on Allwinner SoCs Update (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_on_allwinner_socs_update) *** Feedback/Questions Tim - Creating Multi Boot USB sticks (http://dpaste.com/0FKTJK3#wrap) Nomen - ZFS Questions (http://dpaste.com/1HY5MFB) JJ - Questions (http://dpaste.com/3ZGNSK9#wrap) Lars - Hardening Diffie-Hellman (http://dpaste.com/3TRXXN4) ***
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