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Note: I originally wrote this piece for American Bridge's internal wiki in 2020, before I was president of the organization.

What an asshole Is there anything more silly than people who, against all evidence, wake up on new years day, proclaim "new year - new me!"

I'm unusual in the world of politics in that I've long encouraged my staff to have Twitter -- or other social media accounts -- and to actively use them.

Twitter was endless; RSS had a stopping point Before Twitter became my main mode of news discovery, I primarily relied on RSS readers to keep track of news.

Are other people experiencing this?

Mastodon So, here's the thing.

Reading David Roth's brilliant essay Everything Is Silicon Valley Now, it's easy to fall into something of a despair pit.

Perhaps the most interesting thing in the crypto community is the gap between its professed ideals of creating trustless, code-mediated, decentralized finance and its centralized, opaque, fraud-riven...

If you're working in electoral politics, you're probably trying to do two things at the same time: First, you're trying to do the thing that you do to help win elections.

It's a pleasant early November treat to watch Republicans attack each other, the media, and voters for the party's unexpectedly poor performance in the 2022 midterms.

So, there's this “We have interfered, are interfering and will continue to interfere.”Russian entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted he interfered in U.S. elections and says he will continue to do...

With all the Elon Musk-inspired Twitter chaos, I've been thinking about a few things: What would I do if Twitter went away?

My pinned thread on Twitter is a running list of things I’ve learned about management over the years.

I'm an opposition researcher, and for most people, that means digging up dirt.

There's a lot of selection bias in who gets called a "good" or "bad" campaigner, or public speaker, in politics.