What I Wish I’d Known Before Dropping Computer Science

Just because it’s hard, doesn’t mean you’re bad at it

7 things I learned leaving government for a startup

Govtech from both sides now

3 ways to engage with your local government

You have power in your backyard. Use it.

2015 was about the why of open data. 2016 is about the how.

The open data movement has made a lot of progress in a relatively short amount of time. But it wasn’t all that long ago that the concept of releasing privately held data for unknown people to poke their noses into scared the…

Case Study: CityGrows + Santa Monica

Hacking the Beach and solving the Specialized Local Process…

LA + CityGrows update — People St process live!

It’s been a great week for CityGrows and our work with the City of Los Angeles! Yesterday, our first process with the City’s Department of Transportation went live for the 2017 People St application process. LA DOT’s People St program. People St…

CityGrows has a new CEO!

Four years, eight months and change ago, I made the first commits to an app called Razefeed, a poorly-named permit…

Government is not too broken for tech. Here’s why.

When I tell people I started a tech company, their faces light up and our conversation immediately turns into a guessing game.

“What’s it called?”