Advocate for the use of data for social impact. Suspicious of overly neat things. Feminist. Alum of @BarackObama 2012 Analytics. Co-founder @Blue_Labs.
Washington, DC
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$tsla famously doesn't advertise their products but I sure am getting a lot of shareholder-facing ads to support the Elon comp package. Makes me think investors are the product, not cars.
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I wish Democrats who feel they are in the right on a given policy position had some sort of mechanism to confront that fact here — that "people are experts in their own experience"
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Realtor: so do you just love it?
Mozart: it’s beautiful, I’ll take it.
Realtor: Mozart’s death house, such a great spot.
Mozart: the what house?
Realtor: normal house, very standard house.
Welp. That phone was on airplane mode so not the cause of the decompression. Gonna have to keep looking for phones till they find the one that wasn't.
Found an iPhone on the side of the road... Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282 Survived a 16,000 foot drop perfectly in tact!
When I called it in, Zoe at @NTSB said it was the SECOND phone to be found. No door yet😅
. @thehill keeping it classy by running a Veteran's Day oped advocating to deny more disability claims.
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Love this so much! You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file from your health insurance company. projects.propublica.org/clai…
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1. On Sept 26, Target announced it was closing nine stores "because theft and organized retail crime are…contributing to unsustainable business performance."
The release generated a flood of credulous media coverage
But now, @Target's the story is falling apart
🧵
Product management for developer tools thrives with a unique process and org design. I'd argue the lessons from those orgs are worth studying but aren't directly replicable for other product types.
How @Linear builds product:
1. No product managers, just a head of product. PM duties are distributed across engineering and design.
2. No durable cross-functional teams. Teams assemble around a project and disperse once the project is done.
3. No metrics-based goals. Just a North Star company-level metric goal.
4. No A/B tests. Decisions are based on taste and opinions.
5. Job candidates go through a paid work trial. They join the team for 1-5 days and work on a real project with the team.
6. The team is completely remote. And always has been.
Also, they have more cash in the bank than they’ve ever raised in VC funding, they’ve been profitable for 2+ years (before it was cool), and have spent a grand total of $35K on paid marketing in the history of the company. Only two people have ever left the company, and their CEO, Karri Saarinen, is a designer (who rarely gives interviews).
To get an in-depth glimpse into how Linear builds product, see link below for my interview with @karrisaarinen
I must have accidentally consented to push notifications from AccuWeather. This is definitely not weather related news.
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Lol an archaeology website had a AI write an article on the scimitar and they accidentally scraped a Dungeons and Dragons description.
ALT Known to Europeans as the scimitar, the sham shot is the quintessential long sword of the horsemen of Persia (Iran), Moghul India and Arabia. It scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity and is a good weapon for high dexterity characters who can excel at slashing attacks while spinning. A curved sword with a thin blade of ample length. Light of weight desire its larger size, its slicing attacks come in rapid succession. Such savers were renowned for their sharpness and lethality.
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🚨 Analytics Job Alert 🚨
Folks - we are hiring for 3 roles on the BFP Analytics team! Come work with a great group of people to re-elect @JoeBiden! 📊🕶️🇺🇸📈
Job descriptions and links to apply here: jobs.lever.co/BFPCC
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Announcing the Figure Out If You Have To Report An Income Change to SNAP challenge
(And yes AI/LLMs can and should help with this. @ me whatever you want.)
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The VA.gov design system includes our content style guide which is sneakily one of the best plain language government writing resources in the world
design.va.gov/content-style-…
This can allow fintech orgs to screen for state program eligibility without having to gather rules on their own. What if paychex, mint.com, etc. had eligibility screeners built in but with someone else doing the policy lift?
New #rulesascode research from @BeeckDBN & @MassiveData_GU:
・Analyzes communication of U.S. benefits eligibility rules and adaptation into code
・Compares coded examples of policy
・Explores standardization based on data standards, tools & frameworks
digitalbenefitshub.org/explo…
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Overhearing some people talking about “the markets going crazy tomorrow” and my first thought was “oh because of the waystar-gojo acquisition”
(it’s actually bc of something known as the “debt ceiling”)