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Sure, I'm happy to share a bit more about myself, and I will also clarify how I intended the google doc to work.
I'm a career civil servant in DC, I work at a cabinet-level agency where I've been for approximately 10 years. I am not a member of the transition team (see response to Ian, above). My connections to the incoming administration are through current and former colleagues, friends, and various folks I know here in DC who I'd classify mostly as "weak ties."[1]
My goal for the google doc is for it to fu...
Thanks Ian, good point. I shared a draft of this post with Aaron Gertler before I posted it; he should be able to help confirm I am not up to anything nefarious. I'm happy to answer questions in an AMA, too, though I'll maintain my anonymity. I was originally going to publish under my own name (which is my other user name on the forum) but was advised not to, basically for the reason that anything you publish can end up scrutinized as part of the appointment process and better safe than sorry. I do have the intention of matchmaking as out...
Echoing Ian's comment, I'd appreciate if you could share more information about your background. I understand that you want to remain anonymous but maybe you could share how you're connected to folks on the transition team, potentially how influential you expect your recommendations to be, if there are any departments you have more or less influence in, etc. so folks can judge whether they want to expose all of this info to you.
Excellent posts (and excellent user name)! Thank you for all the work you put into this. All I have to add is that folks who are interested in working in the legislative branch may also be interested in reading this post about working in the executive branch.