Part 3 of “Before I Go”, a career retrospective. Sixteen years. That’s how long I worked for LA County before I understood what it actually meant to serve the public. I didn’t arrive at that understanding in a meeting or through a training program. I arrived at it by walking into a lobby. It was […]
Part 2 of “Before I Go”, a career retrospective I’ve spent 35 years inside government IT, and in that time I’ve watched the same cycle repeat more times than I can count. Someone discovers that government IT is slow. They write about it, speak about it at conferences, and build a startup to fix it.
Part 1 of “Before I Go”, a career retrospective. In the summer of 1986, I walked into a building in Industry, California that looked nothing like a college campus. There was no quad or clock tower, only an office park with classrooms. I was 18, just out of high school, and almost certainly the youngest
Originally published on LinkedIn – Read the original post The first two articles in this series were about ideas and feelings. This one is about what happened, the workflow, the failures, the moments where everything went sideways, and the honest verdict on whether any of this was worth it. It was. But let me tell
I want to tell you how the Work Balance App actually started, because the truth is a little embarrassing and kind of funny.
I built a working, functional IOS app. And it changed how I think about the future of technology leadership.
