Working at
@ndstudio has been the greatest honor of my life. Yesterday was my last day, and it was hard to leave. This is the most incredible mission I’ve been a part of.
Joe has spent the last 2 years working to make sure the government feels less like going to the DMV. Everyone on the team could be making way more money somewhere else, but they chose to do this because it’s the best way to make a lot of people's lives actually better.
I think the whole point of engineering is to build something people actually need, that is going to be valuable to them. At NDS, "people" meant hundreds of millions of Americans.
You get to shape what it feels like to be a citizen of the best country on Earth. You don't get to do that anywhere else.
I've gotten to watch some of the most talented engineers and designers I know take pay cuts and give up sleep to make technology better for Americans. The team is still cooking. They're still building, growing, and improving and there's so much ahead.
I am looking forward to trying my hand at something new, and I'll really miss the team. But if you're an engineer or designer and you care about the experience of being an American and how technology shapes it, you should go and talk to Joe and the team. There is nothing better you could be working on.