Re: vivek

[Aaron Swartz <xx@aaronsw.com>]

the thing that clay has been pushing me for and the thing that i think
would be fun is Macon's tech advisor; i.e. evaluating technology,
translating his ideas to geek, finding him smart hackers, etc.

macon said he'd have to check with vivek about it though, because I
guess they want to share hackers or something.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Carl Malamud <xxxxxxx@media.org> wrote:
> understood.  they are all very secretive, etc., etc. I won't screw this up
> for you.
>
> is there a particular job you'd want?  as opposed to "i'll consider
> anything"?
>
> I've always had the best success by identifying an opportunity that others
> don't see and going for it.  e.g, cto of the usgs or noaa or ...
>
> you want to do something ops-oriented, I would think?  vivek is a policy
> review shop, which is of course interesting, but I would have thought you'd
> be looking for something involving touching large amounts of iron.
>
> On Mar 9, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:
>
>>>> we should talk ... i'm getting pretty strong visibility.  let me see
>>>> what I
>>>> can do.  we're all looking for cracks in the wall ... got some
>>>> interesting
>>>> insight into some of the dynamics there.
>>>
>>> sure, whatever you think will help
>>
>> it's just that since there hasn't been anything official i don't want
>> to run my mouth off. would hate for them to hear that i'm considering
>> a job they haven't even offered me.
>>
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