This is the propeller hat that everyone received on their first day. We had to wear them to a company-wide happy hour that Friday and introduce ourselves. A couple of months ago, I sent this email:
Hi everyone,
I’m writing to let you know that I am leaving Google at the end of November. The past few years through Ads, Docs, Flu Trends, Maps, and more (not to mention UX team dodgeball and septabike rides) have been an incredible journey, and it’s no easy decision to tear myself away from this community and, dare I say it, family. This is a company that adds extra zeros to any target number, turns outlandish jokes into useful launches, maps the moon, and elevates everything from CSS classnames to tech support to cafeteria lunch into an art form.
But it’s precisely these experiences at Google that have made me impatient with the way the world works, and I’m hungry to bring our spirit to the wider world. I’ll be spending 2012 creating reusable, open-source civic technology as a Code for America fellow.
Thank you all so much. Please don’t be strangers.
— Mosh
