Trump signs an EO creating the National Design Studio to improve “websites and physical sites”; sources say he's tapping Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to lead it
Powell's last speech: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is expected to give … Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : Florida man orders beautification of America after gold-plating the White House Mallory Wi...
A profile of Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old Thiel Fellow who gained recognition for using AI to help decipher the Herculaneum papyri and later joined DOGE
Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through.
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE staffer known as “Big Balls” online, has joined the Social Security Administration days after resigning from the GSA
www.wired.com/story/big-ba... X: Sovey / @sovey_x : Edward “Big Balls” Coristine is 19. He just got hired to fix the retirement system. I'm 28 and don't know how to unsubscribe from Sephora emails. [i...
Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia discusses working as a DOGE software engineer for the VA and says he was let go after his Fast Company interview was published
Gov't tech workers I spoke to went bonkers when DOGE workers began connecting non-government laptops to their systems. … Jacob Harris / @jacobharr.is : Reading Sahil Lavingia's blog post about working...
Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a “special government employee”, defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending
Elon Musk pivoted to damage control in his final days as a “special government employee,” publicly recommitting to Mars …
An interview with Gumroad CEO Sahil Lavingia about working as an unpaid contractor for DOGE, moving the Gumroad code base to the MIT license, and more
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In an hour-long Q&A with reporters, Elon Musk talked DOGE, including acknowledging its shortcomings, leaving the US government, working with Trump, and more
though not always as much as he'd like — and said he still Shelby Talcott / @shelbytalcott : “DOGE is a way of life, like Buddhism,” Elon Musk said at one point. He's shifting his focus back to his co...
An interview with Affirm co-founder Max Levchin on hitting profitability, international expansion, building an “Affirm mafia”, DOGE, friendship with Musk, more
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Semafor : X: @edgecliffe . LinkedIn: Max Levchin X: @edgecliffe : Max Levchin, Affirm's CEO, told me he incorporated his company on Pi Day because he's “a little bit obses...
An interview with Affirm co-founder Max Levchin on hitting profitability, international expansion, building an “Affirm mafia”, DOGE, friendship with Musk, more
This article first appeared in The CEO Signal. Request an invitation. — THE SIGNAL INTERVIEW X: @edgecliffe . LinkedIn: Max Levchin X: @edgecliffe : Max Levchin, Affirm's CEO, told me he incorporat...
A profile of longtime Elon Musk loyalist Steve Davis, who effectively runs DOGE after SpaceX, Boring Company, and X stints, based on interviews with 22 sources
Elon Musk declared last month that the federal government was engaged in “utterly insane” activity, claiming without evidence …