Author: golikehellmachine

With federal oversight there is a robust bureaucratic machine that levels the playing field, where the rules are the same for developers in all 50 states.

It’s not sexy, but someone has to buy the screws and the oscilloscopes, and you can’t do research without equipment and materials.

When I think about whether to stay in or not — and I have thought about that some — I think, “Good lord, I’m not perfect, and I remain suspicious that maybe I’m just trying to justify myself, but how could I bag out now?”

We all deserve to have access to the resources, information, and tools to help plan for our futures.

Lone geniuses didn’t get us these successes, the hard work of many many teams of people did, and if we give these people the funding and support needed to do their jobs, there’s so much more we could do.

When I was a little girl, my mother’s house burned to the ground — no one was hurt but everything was lost. The outpouring of help from neighbors and family has stayed with me my entire life, and I have always wanted to be able to help the next person in the same way my…

I liked that I was part of a solution to problems with financial stability by working in resolution planning, and being at FDIC would be the pinnacle of that work.

My position now has a lot more direct connection to mission, to the hard trades that have to be made to put equipment in people’s hands who are putting themselves in harm’s way, and it feels much more important and immediate to get it right.