After visiting the UK 🇬🇧, France 🇫🇷 and Germany 🇩🇪 and our ServiceNow Global Public Sector tour of the people and missions best modernizing public services around the world, we’re about to leave for Japan 🇯🇵, Singapore 🇸🇬, Australia 🇦🇺 and New Zealand 🇳🇿. #GPSWorks Life at ServiceNow

We had a wonderful evening at The Trump Kennedy Center for Handel’s Messiah, followed by greetings and thanks to the conductor and musicians backstage. Thank you to the National Symphony Orchestra!

Today Edinburgh's Hogmanay: We are cancelling everything due to weather. Also EdHagmanay: it’s still ok to send people up into the sky in the vomit rocket. Hmmm.

Behold: My first Ancient Order of Hibernians St Paddy’s Day Parade in Dogtown, St Louis from the Dougherty Clan experience. #DoughertyClan #IrelandForever #StPatrick St. Louis Post-Dispatch FOX2now #STLouis ☘️🌈⚜️

Opening Day for the Washington Washington Nationals! ⚾️🇺🇸🌭

Fantastic National AI Literacy Day at Booz Allen Hamilton’s Helix Center for Innovation, sponsored by OpenAI, Google and more — but I didn’t get the memo about wearing black I guess… #AILiteracyDay

On the inaugural United Airlines flight to Nuuk, Greenland 🇬🇱: and the experience and vibe is incredible. We can’t wait to enjoy and learn from the community there under the white nights of the high north. #AvGeek

Aluu from Nuuk, Greenland 🇬🇱, where I’ve been on a cultural and wilderness journey as a passenger on United Airlines’s inaugural flight here to the northernmost capital in the world. I spent a year living in far northern Greenland when serving in U.S. Air Force Space Command, and was

Congratulations to my brilliantly dedicated partner Maggie Dougherty and the Harvard Harvard Kennedy School Carr-Ryan Center on the inaugural cohort of Human Rights and US Foreign Policy Fellows! 🌎 hks.harvard.edu/announcements/… #ForeignPolicy #HumanRights

In personal news, yesterday Maggie Dougherty and I canoed out into the crystal lagoon beneath Mount Otemanu in Bora Bora, jeweled in vibrant flowers, where I asked her to marry me. She said yes, and is now known in French Polynesia as the future ‘Madame Herman.’ A press briefing

Happy Halloween 🎃

Solid evening at Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀’s Moonshots gathering of policy thinkers, founders, researchers, (a jazz band) and builders to connect and explore the future of innovation: in celebration of Sputnik. 🛰️

The moment you realize your art collecting graduated into early stage canvas hoarding. #ArtCollector #ArtLovers

Happy #VeteransDay to all who served and supported.

Scenes from the Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀 gala in Washington DC last night…

Washington briefly set aside its crises this weekend so friends could celebrate Maggie & me getting engaged. Champagne, policy gossip, and genuine happiness were involved, proving that a govtech guy and global policy wonk girl can sustain a human relationship in this world.

And the Washington DC holiday gala seasons begins with Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀 🎄🎉

Tonight I brought Maggie, James and Carrie to the The Explorers Club Washington Group’s monthly dinner at The Cosmos Club to learn about the role of distance education in sharing with children worldwide the rediscovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s famed lost ship Endurance in the icy