Heidi

Super excited to have gotten tickets to see @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social in Ottawa in June!! I was so bummed to find out about his last show a week after it happened last time :)

C’est pas faux.

Shout out to second langage evaluations, even practice ones, for being uniquely able to make me question my ability to communicate in any language.

Data Friendship Bracelet Ideas Ranking based on most corporate bland to most spiciest takes.

As per my previous email - er, post, please find attached the current standings of Data Friendship bracelets. P.S. I'll bring some to the Federal Government Innovation Showcase next week 😉

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Save the Date for GovActionCafe 2026 Purpose Canada is facing a generational challenge.

On June 13, I'm hosting a little experimental gathering.

Inspired by UKGovCamp and OneTeamGov Unconferences, #GovActionCafe2026 is a 1-day participant-driven gathering for the doers and the helpers to connect, collect, and turn ideas into relentless implementation.

heidi2o.cc/GovActionCaf...

Four friendship bracelets with the text: Talk Data to Me, Open by Default, c’est la viz, and I ❤️ open data

That’s right I made friendship bracelets for the #GCDataConference2026 tomorrow 💁🏻‍♀️

#Weeknote 5 is posted. This week: taking better care of myself while taking care of a partner with Long Covid. heidi2o.cc/weeknote_5

G: Si tu as un migraine?

Me: Je souffre?

G: Non…

Me: Je souffre à la pénombre ?

G: Que fais-tu contre la grippe?

Me: Je n'ai pas eu la grippe depuis plusieurs années. Je me fais vacciner chaque novembre.

G: G : Non, réponds à la question!!

Moi : C'est ma vraie réponse!!

G: Quand tu casses ton bras, qu’est-ce que tu fais?

Me: Je vais aller au clinique urgent?

G: Non!! Tu dois aller au hôpital!!

Me: N'en fais pas un drame. Ce n'est pas si mal.

In my defense, I’ve never actually broken a bone nor been around anyone who has.

The biggest thing we’ve learned from this module of French class is that my responses for how to treat basic maladies are insane.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"No, you don't need a dashboard"

Weeknote 4 (Feb 2 - 8) This is going to be a short one1 because I’m a bit under the weather and I should be studying for my French class test on Wednesday.

#Weeknote 4 is posted. This week: a perfect month, making friends internationally, and sharing a tool for generating a stakeholder map.

Read here: heidi2o.cc/weeknote_4

How dare the internet upset me this early in the morning by showing me the minions routine that can’t be performed at the Olympics because of a copyright claim

Weeknote 3 (Jan 26-Feb 1) It’s been a fever dream of a week where Hudson William gave Mark Carney his Team Canada fleece1, it was declared Shane Hollander Day2 in Ottawa, and I was stranded downtown for 2 hours because the tra...

#Weeknote 3 now up a bit late because it needed a bit more time to write. This week: Heated Rivalry, brain stuff, and what do we owe to each other? heidi2o.cc/weeknote_3

Do you think Shane Hollander's dad got a letter last week to let him know that his position at Treasury Board of Canada is being eliminated? #heatedrivalry #Ottawa

Do you think Shane Hollander's dad is celebrating Shane Hollander day by participating in transit hell to buy overpriced tiny sandwiches to help "save downtown" for businesses that close before 5pm who keep going on the news to say how much they hate him and his coworkers? #heatedrivalry #Ottawa

ok I went to uottawa and never played hockey

That's right I am Shane Hollander's dad

having to argue about this shit when your job is on the line is incredibly fucking stressful if you actually do know what you’re doing, and one of the biggest unexamined risks of AI is how many legit experts and pros will just decide that the fight isn’t worth having

Just a small bean contemplating RTO5 and the meaninglessness of our existence while sitting at Queen St fare for an hour and counting as the Line 1 is running with only 1 train car and 14 have been alternatingly cancelled or delayed 30-60 minutes or too full to get on and Uber is X3 surging

📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published:
doi.org/10.1162/QSS....

@tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)

Weeknote 2 (Jan. 18-25, 2026) My brain has been fairly creatively fulfilled and challenged lately. The team I get to work with is really coming together.

Weeknote 2: planning for #GovActionCafe2026, the state of conferences, and being creative again heidi2o.cc/weeknote_2

The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufacture...

"Can you imagine a Socratic dialogue with 50,000 likes?"

This is excellent. We've driven out epistemology and driven ourselves mad.

It was the greatest movie of all time if the greatest movie of all time is also incredibly boring and full of alien lizard guys.

Zan and I watched The Great Wall (2016) today.

It is a movie.

Weeknote 1 (Jan 12-17) Is it too early to say “what a year” yet? It’s felt like a heckuva year these first few weeks of January.

Will I keep up with writing #Weeknotes this year? No idea, but here's one. Reflecting on my first week back after vacation (great team, bummer times), progress in French training, and participating as a mentor in the FYN's Career Bootcamp Speed Mentoring sessions: heidi2o.cc/weeknote_1

As usual @ukgovcamp.com looked like so much fun and I wish I could fly over one of these year or finally get around to starting a GC version.