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This is Lindsay, my force of a human

Published on 2021/08/04 By admin

I wanted to write a bit about my partner Lindsay Aranoff and why I’m so grateful we found each other. I could talk about the stuff you could discover from the internet (inaugural Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum, curator of a TEDxKids event in Canada, co-founder of a company with the CTO of Amazon), but you could find all that out yourself. Lindsay looks for the chance to fight for the underdog and people that have less power

Some terrible personal news

Published on 2018/03/08 By admin

Cindy Cutts, my wife and best friend, passed away earlier this week.

Staying with the US Digital Service

Published on 2017/01/19 By admin

A few months ago, I took a leave of absence from Google to do a stint with the US Digital Service . A lot of people know about the US Digital Service because they helped rescue the healthcare.gov website

A brief update

Published on 2016/06/18 By admin

Over the last couple years, I’ve seen more and more people in technology trying to make government work better. They’re idealists who are also making a large impact. These are people that I respect –some of them worked to fix healthcare.gov , for example.

Thanks, Amit

Published on 2016/02/03 By admin

Amit Singhal just announced that he’s retiring toward the end of the month. Amit has been a formative part of Google’s search team, but he’s also a good friend

On Leave

Published on 2014/07/03 By admin

I wanted to let folks know that I’m about to take a few months of leave. When I joined Google, my wife and I agreed that I would work for 4-5 years, and then she’d get to see more of me.

Bluetooth garage door opener

Published on 2013/12/28 By admin

Today I made a Bluetooth garage door opener. Now I can open my garage from my Android phone. There’s a short how-to YouTube video from Lou Prado .

On vacation the rest of November 2013

Published on 2013/11/20 By admin

For the folks that don’t know, I’ve been out for a couple weeks and I’ll be on vacation the rest of November. If you’ve tried to contact me recently and haven’t heard back, that’s probably the reason

Please help me run the Boston Marathon

Published on 2013/11/04 By admin

On April 21st, 2014, I’m going to run the Boston Marathon. If you want to show your support, please donate to a good cause for cancer research . Anyone who wants to give is welcome.

Email backlog

Published on 2013/05/13 By admin

This is a “hairball” post you can ignore. However, this post does trace my thinking about how to scale webmaster communication. Part of me wants to start answering questions I get via email by stripping out the identifying information and then replying with a blog post