I'm an extremely honest thinker who isn't beholden to anyone and has a lot of hands-on life experience at a quirkily wide array of activities.

🎉 🎉 🎉 On behalf of the Code for America Workers United Bargaining Team, I am beyond excited to share that this past Friday, our staff union voted overwhelmingly to ratify our first collective bargaining agreement! 🎉 🎉 🎉

The second explains why our ADHD fingers involuntarily move to use parenthesis and "--'s" whenever we are typing.

Some helpful advice for those of us with ADHD (it me!) from that other place.

The first tackles why you have a gazillion planners with only the first four an a half pages kinda filled out...

Kicking off the first leg of my trip to Memphis. I will be there to kick off a youth participatory action research project. This is my first time facilitating this type of research.

I am a mix of excited and scared out of my mind.

Did all black walnut trees go ham this year on nuts or was it just ours? Because I fear for our and our dogs safety every time I go into our back yard.

"I haven't read his work but see many problems with it."

This exchange is a perfect crystalization of the challenge of trying to meet demands to defend a take on a complex issue.

Too often the asker hasn't done the basic work to understand the defense and put that education work on the defender.