Flashing Palely in the Margins
Walk-and-talk Mar 13
A walking meeting is not just a way for me to accumulate more steps in my pedometer. It's also a way for me to experience the content of the meeting with new context, to literally ground myself and surround myself with life.
What is your work? Mar 13
When was the last time you asked yourself about the work? What is your work now?
A bit of anger, a bit of sadness, a bit of wondering where this is all going Mar 07
As part of the recent tumult in US politics, Trump/Musk/DOGE recently laid off all the staff at 18F, essentially shuttering the agency and with it destroying years of digital experience in government.
On the precarious situation of the civil service Feb 16
I recently read an interesting look at how the stable, impartial civil service was created, and how it was different from the partial, ever-changing system of government workers before it—and how it’s slowly being dismantled by the Trump administration.
Demotion Jan 22
This week, I returned to my job working in employee experience and organizational culture after six months of managing a team of talent and operations professionals. And I am relieved.
Grieving over what was lost Apr 04
These past few weeks, I’ve been grieving. With a stroke of a pen, the Ontario Digital Service, an organization I helped conceive of and build from scratch, was effectively erased from existence.
Recoding America Feb 22
Reading Jennifer Pahlka’s Recoding America was a perfect reminder of why I do the work I do. Pahlka provides a number of examples of how thinking differently about the way we deliver services leads to better outcomes for people, and how thinking differently requires having digital talent inside government.