About
About Dan Bednarski:
- I pretend to garden.
- I don’t fit in a box.
- I now live in SoCal with a beautiful soul. She’s a writer. I pretend to be one. We seem to bounce from L.A. to the Silicon Valley every few years.
- I’m fascinated by the intersection of technology, policy and law.
- I’m not a lawyer, yet; I graduated in December 2009 from Santa Clara Law School.
- In my professional life, I spent more than ten years (1996-2006 and 2008-2009) as a policy wonk, working for GeoCities and then Yahoo!. For GeoCities, I managed the team that dealt with abuse complaints and privacy. For Yahoo!, I managed a Customer Care group handling abuse for a year and then spent the next six dedicated to the privacy policy. I had intended to take a break from that professional identity for three years (maybe more) to attend law school, but returned to Y! for a year to work and attend school concurrently.
- I’m now looking for legal jobs focused on public resources (including but not limited to communications, the environment, utilities, or evolving technology) and the public trust. Leads are always welcome. My intent in attending law school was to switch careers and join the public service.
- Good policy is a science. Bad policy is a nightmare for all.
- I was an eagle scout but it is very unlikely I will let my son join the Boy Scouts. I think the organization excludes others for all the wrong reasons (such as intolerance).
- My home and school computers run Ubuntu Linux. Not much different from Microsoft Windows except the price tag: $0.
Note: All opinions expressed within my blog are my own. Really, they are. I do not speak for anyone but myself. Consequently, I do NOT speak for my former employer, friends, or family. God knows I’m very outspoken and have a hard enough time convincing them to agree with my view point.
