Why Is This Idiot Running My Engineering Org?
8 min readAug 7, 2020
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Fear, loathing and failing up in technology
This is one of my favorite USDS stories: Very quickly in my career at USDS I developed a reputation for being a person you could send out an SOS distress call to, not so much inside USDS itself but externally with contractors and different government partners. There’s a fair amount of backstabbing in the government, even in the civil service…