EmilyTav

@EmilyTav

Solving problems through design, tech, & common sense. Currently . Formerly 🇺🇸 🇬🇷

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    May 12

    Beyond excited to announce a new course we’ve been working on: Digital Fundamentals for Public Impact. Basically a crash course on digital tech for non-techies—like, what *is* a digital product + how does it come to be?

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  2. 2 hours ago
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  3. 16 hours ago

    This with muting bc her baby is sleep training is EVERYTHING. Normalizing parenthood may be the best development of this awful year.

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  4. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    I can't say this enough. 4 million families are getting completely cut off from unemployment benefits with about a month's notice. This didn't need to happen.

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  5. Jun 2

    In personal news: I introduced my kids to & they are *obsessed* w/the muppets rendition of . I recently told them the original was by a human band called Queen. They now refer to Queen as “the people muppets” 😂❤️🍸

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  6. Jun 2
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  7. Retweeted
    Jun 2

    show > tell help do > show help become > help do

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  8. Retweeted
    May 30

    “I’m so happy the pandemic is finally coming to an end.” The pandemic:

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  9. May 31
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  10. May 31

    What interacting with government should be like: “It’s pleasing, but boring enough to move on from. Completely pedestrian, no exaltations; he was just pleased it did what he needed it to do.”

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  11. May 29

    My personal addendum here: it’s less about the institution itself & more about the issues it connects to. So you can work backwards & start by thinking about the issues you care about & identify what institutions directly affect them.

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  12. Retweeted
    May 29

    And build in standards for efficacy, and R&D agenda to improve those designs over time.

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    If you love design and want to make government better, apply for this role at one of the best orgs in the biz.

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  14. May 29
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  15. May 28
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  17. Retweeted
    May 27

    My 6-year-old, working on a bead design: “Do you want to help me?” My 8-year-old: “Yes. Do you want me to follow your directions, or give ideas?” My proposition: All academic collaborations would be improved by having this *exact* conversation

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  18. May 28

    Children learn from the adults around them. I have never insisted my not-even-2 year old wear one because I assumed he was too young. Last week he literally asked for one... presumably because that is how everyone around him is behaving--both adults and kids (of all ages)

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  19. May 27

    "The window is open, so's that door I didn't know they did that anymore... ... There'll be actual real live people It'll be totally strange But wow, am I so ready for this change!"

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  20. May 27

    I can't be the only parent who has this song stuck in my head as I re-engage with the world.

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  21. Retweeted
    May 27

    Democrats continue to bring a stuffed animal to a knife fight

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