Jennifer Pahlka
@pahlkadot
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Author of Recoding America Fellow at @NiskanenCenter, Advisor to Abundance Network Formerly @CodeforAmerica @USDS @USDResponse Defense Innovation Board
Alexandria, VA
Joined December 2006
“My pitch for this episode is simple: Jennifer Pahlka has written one of the best policy books I have ever read.” - Ezra Klein.
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RT @NiskanenCenter: Per @pahlkadot, “You can’t redistribute what doesn’t exist.”. Successful abundance policies must reduce the barriers th….
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Getting ready for our little town's 4th of July parade and listening to @rSanti97's latest on Statecraft, about Governance Lessons From the Constitutional Convention. Of course.
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RT @EconCharlie: Huge!!! Congratulations to @BuffyWicks, @GavinNewsom, @cayimby, and the whole crew for a major win for housing affordabili….
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RT @NiskanenCenter: We're going to be chatting with the architects of this experiment on Wednesday, and you should join us! . RSVP for our….
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RT @marcidale: On the 1-yr anniversary of SCOTUS overturning the Chevron doctrine, Congress has not only failed to step up, but is now slas….
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RT @cafedujord: It's done!! On a unanimous council vote, and after 6+ years, countless hours of public comment, and more than 40 community….
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RT @CSElmendorf: For years, California environmentalists have been MIA or worse on an absolute no-brainer of green policy: building dense….
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Read this for an accurate (IMHO) account of these three books (including mine!). The public discourse diverges quite a bit from the actual content of the books.
Finally finished reading what are IMV the three main books that define the ‘abundance canon’: Recoding America, Why Nothing Works, and Abundance (h/t to @pahlkadot for the early edition of WNW). Some thoughts re: the actual content of the books relative to the Discourse / 🧵.
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Bay Area people: I'll be in SF on June 24th and would love to see you at Mannys!.
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Higher pay for the SES is a good idea a lot of people could get behind.
I'm a small government guy, but making the goverment we have work well means paying people more like the private sector: less at the bottom, more at the top. My case for pay increases for the underappreciated Senior Executive Service in @CityJournal here:
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"I no longer believe that incremental fixes are enough.". I get very excited when leaders like @seemaychou make big, bold moves like this. More of this, please!.
We're excited to take this step, and to talk to other folks who are interested in experimenting. If you have something you're excited to try, reply here -- and we might even fund it.
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RT @Matthew_Meyers5: Stephanie Pollack on @rSanti97's podcast made the same point about why new train lines are so expensive as @pahlkadot….
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RT @GabeMenchaca: Repetition doesn't ruin the prayer @wmataGM!. Book or no book, we have to keep saying this to people until they internali….
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This is an excellent point. cc @KHawickhorst.
@matthewswspence @pahlkadot Yup. Congress knew this in 1978 on the heels of Nixon, they now need to prepare to move just as fast and just as boldly this time.
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RT @GabeMenchaca: Last week, @USOPM released two new, lengthy memos on the federal workforce. @scientistsorg and @NiskanenCenter teamed up….
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RT @zdch: Come for the Elon takes; stay to learn what was described as “a shamefully over-proceduralized, inefficient, and anti-meritocrati….
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RT @zdch: Excellent DOGE breakdown from @pahlkadot in a banger of a piece today. The highlight IMO?. “What DOGE should get credit for is mo….
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Co-sign.
It’s a weird juxtaposition because why not craft a message where we aggressively reduce concentrated corporate power AND we fix bottlenecks and build more stuff?.
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RT @ZLiscow: 🚨NEW PAPER🚨 w/ Elmendorf & Hubbard. We find:.- Growth-enhancing policies almost certainly cannot stabilize federal debt on the….
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