cjoh

Joined 18 years ago

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2003-2004: Howard Dean's Lead Programmer for his Presidential Campaign

2004-2008: Founder, Blue State Digital (went on to build BarackObama.com)

2008-2010: Director of Sunlight Labs

2010-: Founder of Big Window Labs, Incubating Traceful.com, BullFightStrategies.com, RisingTideInteractive.com.

2012: Presidential Innovation Fellow, White House. RFP-EZ Team Lead (http://rfpez.sba.gov)

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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 years ago
The Elegato Prompter (a separate piece of hardware) has this built in.
Comment · 3 years ago
Consider hiring an executive coach. Sometimes things we don't enjoy are opportunities for growth. I worked with one and it unlocked a lot of stuff for me.
Comment · 4 years ago
What a strange reaction to a recipe.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'd be willing to bet you've not given your email to any political candidate or campaign.
Comment · 5 years ago
Is there a way to simplify moving password management out of Keychain and into Firefox?
Comment · 5 years ago
I am more interested to know how much of that payout he will be taxed on
Comment · 5 years ago
I’m not particularly familiar with FCC law, but don’t they tend to... not approve things like this? Not being sarcastic, honest question.
Comment · 9 years ago
Real estate. Rental units are a great passive income
Comment · 9 years ago
While I generally agree that members of Congress listen more to lobbyists than to constituents, the idea that money flows this transactionally is just absurd.

You yourself have probably given to a member of Congress because they did something rather than so that they will do something. I gave to a member of Congress because they spoke out for Gun control, not because I called them and told Them that if they speak out I will write them a check.

That’s what makes this kind of uncontextualized data pretty disheartening. You’re showing some correlations, conflating it with causation, and disaffecting the electorate (which, in turn makes the lobbyists more powerful)

Comment · 9 years ago
The great thing about predicting bubble bursts is eventually you’ll be right! (And if you’re wrong, so what)
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
While it's poor form to have a leaky database, this information is largely public and dirt cheap. You can buy a whole state's worth of data for a couple hundred bucks or a few cents a name. That includes whether or not you're registered to vote in any specific primary.

Doesn't look like who you voted for is disclosed -- I'm not sure that this data even exists. I suspect in most states, you go in to vote, your name is crossed off a list, you're assigned a hash, and that hash votes, and there's no database of "John Smith voted for Jane Doe."

Comment · 11 years ago
What happens when the company that won tries to get on schedule 70, and are negotiated to contract to government for some fraction of a dollar?

It sounds preposterous, but government has done more preposterous things in this sector.

Comment · 11 years ago
>Isn't this exactly what you did at BSD? Enabled advocacy organizations to send millions of form-letter to Congress, making real constituent contact get lost in the flood?

Yes. More than a decade ago, I admittedly had a hand in creating this problem, and now I'd love to see it fixed.

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