Back To My Roots

Whenever I read things like this, my immediate reaction is &quot;How do these people have so much money to travel around the world doing nothing-in-particular for two years?&quot;<p>Are there just a lot of really rich people out there? Or am I over-cautious and they&#x27;re operating without a safety net?

This looks great.<p>You know what&#x27;s really wacky about government inefficiency?<p>It&#x27;s damn near impossible to help, much less fix from the inside.<p>I&#x27;ve long been convinced that the best&#x2F;only way to help right along the lines of what these guys are doing - build boxed solutions from the outside.<p>This is effectively an air-drop of tools which sails in over top of all the petty backbiting, ass covering and general self-serving bullshit that stifles in-house projects.

Kudos to him, I would have gone back to school and lived the life of the spoiled rich brat I always wished for.

Really interesting — I think the question of &quot;How can I help make government better?&quot; is not asked enough. My guess is that there is a large number of very smart people who would love to write code to improve the government; I know that when I&#x27;m looking for a new gig I&#x27;ll be reaching out.

I&#x27;ve been hacking around with DOBT&#x27;s formbuilder.js, and they seem like a great team. Hope the new position suits you well!

For those who, like me, were clueless, DOBT = &quot;Department of Better Technology&quot;[1].<p>Not, oddly enough, &quot;Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy&quot; which is the only Wikipedia hit[2].<p>[1] <a href="http://www.dobt.co/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dobt.co&#x2F;</a> [2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_therapy#History" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Coherence_therapy#History</a>

This is similar to what I would do in the same situation. If I didn&#x27;t need the income of my day job, I&#x27;d spend the time on public service or charity of some sort. I can&#x27;t see myself spending money like a trust fund dilettante nor funding yet another startup.

I don&#x27;t believe in the government. Unfortunately it believes in me. Well done on being almost as free as a person can be in this unfree society. But please don&#x27;t help the biggest source of unfreedom there is. Instead, use your time to help make others free if you want a suggestion as to what to do.<p>Easy to use crypto for one.

For all their hand-wringing over the healthcare.gov debacle you&#x27;d think at least one of these DoBT guys would have gone in to help fix it. That probably would have gotten in the way of fund-raising, though.