Sam George

Folks - it's back on the road again to speak to a larger audience about Utah's State Endorsed Digital Identity(SEDI) legislation and the technical requirements to pull it off.

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United Ways of California reached another Data Interoperability innovation milestone today (https://lnkd.in/gRrrrwA9.) Data Interoperability is a detail oriented, multi organization effort to pass JUST the right amount of data on a person, to help better coordinate social care for the least privileged. We then need to establish precise specifications, unique to Care Use Cases. We were so pleased to be the first to work with Connecting for Better Health – the CA industry collaborative – on a referral data payload for Housing Support. A BIG thanks to Richard Kwong & Mitch Lindsay of C4BH, and to Scott Knaub of UWCA and Michael Cornew of Orange County United Way. Great progress. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE:  https://lnkd.in/gRrrrwA9 #CAUnitedWays #211 #UnitedWays #DxF #DataExchange #California #SocialCare

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What a cool idea from Valerie Harrison... She made a quick remark at an internal session about using AI for HOA docs which sent me down a path. Our community has 15+ years of docs that have been amended and changed as more development has happened. It's very hard to figure out what the rules are about something at this point. Put those docs into NotebookLM and now we have an AI agent to ask! Technology is so cool when it solves a problem.

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⚙️ Claude Code is creating a buzz among Seattle engineers, who describe the AI tool as a supercharged coding partner that can refactor large codebases, handle tedious boilerplate, and stitch services together at speed. The article paints a picture of software teams rethinking roles, workflows, and onboarding as coding assistants shift from autocomplete to true collaborators. For engineering leaders, the big challenge is how to harness this productivity jump while maintaining code quality, security, and human expertise in the loop. #AI #Claude #SoftwareDevelopment #EngineeringLeadership #DevTools #Productivity #AIFreakyFacts

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This is an important article written by Rick Turoczy. It’s hard enough starting a company in Oregon. The legislature just made it even less desirable.

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🔥Engineers & Business Unite 🔥Hear the call! “Less talk, more do” — as Yoda would say. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what it really means to walk the walk in AI tech. Not the slogans, not the theater—actual alignment between what we build and what the business is trying to achieve. I’ve always lived at the intersection of business and engineering. Performing, analyzing, inventing, designing… that fusion has always been my edge. Every time I crack open Russell & Norvig’s Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, I’m reminded that none of this works unless both the business and engineering worlds truly understand each other. Engineers: learning the business isn’t optional. Business leaders: learning the engineering isn’t optional. The future belongs to teams who cross that gap, not protect it. The ones who zoom out from their own incentives and tune into the objectives of the company as a whole. The ones who can think in systems, see across functions, and collaborate without ego or turf. My approach to uniting engineering and business: each side must embrace radical transparency, commit to the safety of the other side and the accountability of their own side. Without this, dysfunction rears its ugly head every, single, time: hidden agendas, shadow workflows, “cut and run” / “under the bus” when consequences arrive, etc. The above tenets also hold true for forging healthy tech partnerships: transparency, safety, accountability. With this, the sum can always be greater than its parts. Without, the sum always winds up less than its parts. The individual self interest corporate sub-culture of 1930s - current will not work with AI. AI brings an era of ultra-transparency where hidden agendas / secrecy will be near impossible. “Come together, right now”: the next wave of AI and enterprise innovation demands nothing less. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #EngineeringLeadership #BusinessLeadership #TechStrategy #EnterpriseInnovation #ProductLeadership #DataDriven #CrossFunctionalCollaboration #FutureOfWork #InnovationEcosystem #SystemsThinking #DigitalTransformation #LeadershipInTech #DoTheWork #thinkingitoverwithBen

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Hawaii’s new Department of Law Enforcement is pioneering the use of virtual reality—using geographic information system (GIS) technology to build a geospatial digital twin—to enhance security, incident response, and training. https://ow.ly/Sr6w50WOCsb

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Continued thoughts on Per Aspera 001: The Return to the Guild As I’ve had more time to reflect on Dan Goldin’s Per Aspera 001 and this article from GitHub’s Branching Out_ channel—https://lnkd.in/gkp3u3TU “Why Developer Expertise Matters More Than Ever in the Age of AI”—I’ve been meditating deeply on the future of education, the ancient patterns of apprenticeship, and the soul of software engineering itself. We are, I believe, living through a strange paradox. On one hand, AI promises to accelerate development, automate boilerplate, and optimize workflows. On the other hand, the core of what makes a developer excellent—clarity of thought, principled design, architectural foresight—cannot be automated. These are not just skills. They are virtues. And virtues must be cultivated. The article rightly points out that developer expertise is becoming more valuable, not less, in this new age. I agree—but I’d go even further. Expertise is not just about efficiency or productivity. It is about craft. And that’s where our current institutions have failed us. The industrial education system, with its pre-packaged curricula and endless credentialism, has little to say about mentorship. About learning by osmosis. About failing nobly under the watchful eye of a master builder. The great developer is not born from YouTube tutorials or bootcamp sprints. They are born, like the blacksmith or stonemason of old, through the sacred rhythm of apprenticeship. I believe it is time to return to the guild. A place where elder technomancers teach the next generation not just how to code, but how to think. A place where principles like SOLID, Clean Code, and the Twelve-Factor App are passed down not as checklists, but as living traditions. A place where engineers are trained not only to build, but to bear the moral weight of what they build. Alternative education models—similar to the technology academy mentorship program I’ve experimented with in the past—point toward this future. A future that’s slower, deeper, and more relational. A future that values wisdom over trend-chasing, and character over hustle. In the end, this is the invitation of Per Aspera: to take the harder path. The path of craft. Of community. Of the sacred return to form. Because while AI may change how we build software, it cannot change who we are while building it. #PerAspera #SoftwareEngineering #DeveloperLife #TechLeadership #AlternativeEducation #MentorshipMatters #Apprenticeship #EngineeringExcellence #AIandDev #DevCommunity #FutureOfWork #SOLIDPrinciples #CleanCode #MoralTech #HumanCenteredAI #IndieDev #EngineeringWisdom #CodeAsArt

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Seven weeks "retired." My output since then disagrees with the title. Three production apps shipped. DIAL (DORA metrics + AI recommendations), a church leadership assessment platform, and an internal time tracker — all built solo, all built right. My non-negotiables across every project: ✓ Firebase + GCP — managed infra, zero ops overhead ✓ Workload Identity Federation — no stored keys in CI/CD ✓ Angular 17 standalone components + consistent design system ✓ Loosely coupled services with clean API boundaries ✓ Conventional commits enforced via Husky Modern tooling lets one engineer build like a team. #Firebase #GCP #Angular #SoftwareArchitecture #FractionalCTO

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