Post by Ryan Wold

I left GSA TTS last year, coinciding with the end of my 3rd term and prompted by DOGE.

It was hard for a bunch of reasons - and I’m grateful for those hardships - for what they have taught me; revealed to me about myself.

Public service need not be limited to the public sector.
Civics goes well-beyond public agencies.
Cities are platforms; “labs of democracies”
Distributed coordination might best be exemplified in open-source - sometimes in “communities” - often in chat channels and coffee shops and async opt-in contributions by people expressing their innate creativity to make things better.

Where we’re going, I’m not certain,
but I am sure, we’re not going back.

I know tough moments may come again, but I know the future is bright. Extremely bright. As this wave of intelligence rises, our information environment is transforming - and calls for us to shape it. New patterns will emerge, new opportunities, new forms of interaction, governance, accountability, coordination, commerce, entertainment, work, and leisure.

So, here’s a shared reminder to keep an open heart and eyes toward the light.

Keep creating, sharing, merging, and ❤️ ing