Allowing me on-site was too risky for this still top-secret project, so I spent a day in a nearby hotel coffee shop, serially interviewing team members who slipped away one-by-one to tell me their stories. Later, on a trip to California, I met Mikey Dickerson, and I kept up with him as he grappled with the offer to head the proposed United States Digital Service (he knew all along he was going to do it — because he felt his country needed him).
Kuniruhusu kwenye tovuti ilikuwa ni hatari kubwa kwa ajili ya mradi huu bado juu-siri, hivyo Mimi alitumia siku katika nchi jirani duka hoteli kahawa, serially kuhoji wanachama wa timu ambaye amekwisha ondoka moja kwa moja kuniambia hadithi zao. Baadaye, juu ya safari ya California, nilikutana na Mikey Dickerson, na mimi naendelea up na yeye kama yeye grappled na kutoa kwa kichwa mapendekezo Marekani Digital Huduma (alijua wote pamoja alikuwa anaenda kufanya hivyo – kwa sababu waliona nchi yake zinahitajika yake).