Thank you 18F.

18F is *precisely* what Musk and team claim should exist within government. But when his team found it, they destroyed it, because it is evidence that government works well (can’t have that!), and because like Zelensky, 18F didn’t bend the knee.

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

I’ll give Trump one thing: he’s great at making other countries patriotic. I hope they all know that many Americans are ashamed and appalled and have never wanted a damn thing to do with this maga bullshit. Our country could be so much better, but not sure how we come back from this clown show.

Moving on from 18F. — ethanmarcotte.com I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening.

🦊

Friday was my last day working at 18F. It was a team of extraordinary people, but a few things happened that made me realize I had to leave.

Everything happens so much these days, so I thought I’d write down for myself what happened, and how I made my decision:

ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leavin...

It wasn't that long ago I'd see and hear conservatives lose the fucking minds over "the rule of law", what the founders wanted, this and that about the absoluteness of constitution...

...welp.

What am I seeing #dubnation?! Was that...a Warriors comeback? And someone who can draw fouls?

This new look team with Butler is looking pretty great so far.

Also: Post might be the option they needed for a stretch big.

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

So Elon will now just "plug in" to our aviation system? Riiight. Make it more efficient? More...what? Trustworthy? Slap some AI in there? Oh, ok.

I knew it was going to be a clownshow, like it is with Twitter, but a lot more people are going to get killed by this shit. I'm still flying, but... oof.

Yeah, I feel bad for Schroder. It's the NBA, but he has been traded way too much. Hope he finds a good team to stick with for awhile.

Damn. I don’t think I like this deal. Sad to see Wiggins go.

Haha. I hear it.

Blood Over Bright Heaven is on my list. Have you read Mistborn by Sanderson? I like those better than Stormlight Archive. More focused. Depending on what you like I’ve got loads of recommends! :)

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

GP2! Steph! Wiggins! Loooooney! Nice win over the Zombie Sonics. Go Dubs!

OH: “In times like these, I have to ask myself, would J5 be down with it?”

Chali 2na is only down with cool shit so, yeah, I get it.

A once-in-a-lifetime event.

Until it happens again next year.

How to survive being online Wee little union sign I painted in 2022, maybe? This week’s question comes to us anonymously: How do we survive being online? Erika and I bought a radio. For…

Mike Monteiro on how to survive being online. “The first four years of Donald Trump was a continuous panic attack. I’m not going through that again. You don’t have to either. They’re on stage, but you don’t have to be their audience.” [buttondown.com]

The gaslighting. Holy shit. There is no damn way Elon didn’t know exactly what he was doing with his Nazi salute. I’d buy that he only did it to troll the libs, but people out here gaslighting or trying to explain it away? GTFO.

47 Years Later, The Palisades Disappeared Overnight » Mike Industries I grew up on Iliff Street, right in the middle of the ashes that up until a few nights ago, was a sunkissed neighborhood known as Pacific Palisades. It was 1978, and I remember my dad climbing up on o...

There was a fire that almost destroyed Pacific Palisades 47 years ago. I wrote about growing up in that magical neighborhood in the 1980s, and what we need to do to prevent more of our world from burning down overnight. 🙏 mikeindustries.com/blog/archive...

The Warriors have crossed into laughably bad territory. I don't see any reason to keep this team together; make some moves that line things up for the offseason. If you improve and somehow make waves in the postseason, that would be nice; if not, it can't really get any worse. #dubnation

Milestone Reflections and Unsolicited Advice for Designers — D. Keith Robinson Over the holiday break, I took a little time to reflect on my journey as an individual contributor (IC) designer in leadership. The career path for IC designers is something near and dear to my heart....

Well, I made it. 10 years in design at Atlassian! To celebrate I wrote up some thoughts and advice for ICs in design leadership. It's a weird path, for sure, but for some folks, it's the best path.

www.dkeithrobinson.com/journal/10-y...

Great. Now that’s gonna be stuck in my head all day. Haha.

Next stop: enshittification!

Related: what's the next, next thing?

You know, so I can get in on the ground floor and grab my preferred username. ;)

They are and always were full of flip-flopping & magical thinking, but their lack of self-awareness and inability to see what's right in front of their face is still mind-boggling. They're on the side of the "elites" now, celebrating it. You know? The people they used to bitch about ALL THE TIME.

Today I'm really wondering what all my conservative friends and family think and say about the "rule of law" they were constantly bitching about back in the day. Can they even really talk about it with a straight face anymore? Or are their minds so washed they really don't see it?

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Dubs look so bad. Steph cooking but the rest of them? Just terrible. Break this team up man. You can’t have a team this small if they can’t make shots.

Hello 2025: On Resonance — D. Keith Robinson I’ve had a bit more free time the last couple of weeks than I usually do, and in that time, I’ve done a fair amount of thinking, planning, and scheming for the new year. This is something I’ve done al...

www.dkeithrobinson.com/journal/hell...