Luke Fretwell

I believe technology can help save government. I am the founder of GovFresh. Connect with me on Twitter, LinkedIn or contact me.

Go to the places that scare you in 2012

Came across this excellent hour-long interview Bill Moyers did with Buddhist nun Pema Chodron. The segment is broken into six videos and includes an overview of the Tibetan concept of shenpa.

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‘I can’t do everything, but I am one. I can do something, and I will do the one thing I can do.’

Love the anecdote at the end about a four year-old boy born in a Cambodian prison.

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SF Mayor Ed Lee uses my ‘Fear the Stache’ creative for his new campaign rap video

San Francisco interim mayor and candidate Ed Lee used my ‘Fear the Stache’ creative for his new campaign rap video.

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From One Nebula to Another, Former NASA CTO Ventures to the Cloud

NASA’s Ames Research Center sits in the heart of Silicon Valley, home to the world’s most influential technology companies and starry-eyed entrepreneurs, toiling away in garages and basements hoping to build the next new thing.

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Federal Government IT Inflection Point

In his 1996 business classic, Only the Paranoid Survive, Intel co-founder Andy Grove popularized the term ‘Strategic Inflection Point,’ a reference to his company’s extraordinary turnaround that became a tech mantra and inspired entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and beyond.

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Cover design for security expert Bruce Schneier’s new book

I’ve been following security expert Bruce Schneier‘s blog for about a year and appreciate his ability to communicate technical security issues to a Luddite like me. When he asked readers for feedback on working titles and covers for his upcoming book, Liars and Outliers, I spent 20 minutes designing a prototype of what I thought [...]

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Fear the Stache

Move over Brian Wilson’s beard, there’s new facial hair in San Francisco.

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Infographic for FedScoop: ‘The Next U.S. CIO’

Infographic I created for FedScoop: ‘The Next CIO’ (my first infographic).

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Why the next SF mayor needs to understand open government

Melissa Blaustein wrote a post on open government and the San Francisco mayoral race for the Huffington Post and mentioned my work on SFOpen 2011.

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White House ‘Open for Questions’ answers my question

The White House held a live chat discussion on federal .gov Website reform and, prior to the event, they asked citizens to submit questions via Twitter and Facebook.

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