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.
nytimes.com
In “Recoding America,” Jennifer Pahlka offers a deeper theory for why the U.S. government struggles to provide services to its people.
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RT @abundance_ny: "If politics is at all like gardening, most politicians think of themselves as planting seeds. What they fail to see is….
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Sweating the small stuff
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In which I claim that Weeding is Fundamental. :).
must read @pahlkadot, featuring @MattMahanSJ . "I want to find the politicians who are reforming the machinery of government so that it actually works, describe how they spend their time. and how they conceive of their jobs that’s different from others.".
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RT @JohnArnoldFndtn: The current Senate includes 47 former lawyers but just 1 engineer according to the Congressional Research Service. htt….
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RT @govex_jhu: 💡K'lila Nooning, our Back-End Data Engineer, has a reading recommendation that resonates with her work at GovEx. "Recoding A….
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RT @LeahLibresco: My 1y: (grabs my hands and claps them). Me: Oh, sweetie, when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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RT @lawsonhmansell: “For all the (warranted) criticism being hurled at Democrats for “everything bagel liberalism,”this proves that conserv….
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"You can have government efficiency or you can wage the culture war through administrative policy—but you can't have both. The choice is up to us.".Read more from @GabeMenchaca at the link below.
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RT @Matthew_Meyers5: Amid the twitter snipes between abundance and antitrust, it sometimes gets lost that they are very compatible in many….
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I'm excited for @skupor's leadership of OPM.
Culture is one of the most over-used yet under-valued terms in organizations. Done right – becoming a set of actions vs just a slogan that is posted in the breakroom – a strong culture can really separate the great from the good. Here are some thoughts I shared with our team on.
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RT @SteveHiltonx: "Leaders who choose reform over preservation may find that their constituents start believing in them again. The budget c….
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Trump’s budget cuts mean that local governments must work smarter.
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RT @judgeglock: Wonderful piece by @pahlkadot and @robertmgordon on how state and local governments can improve efficiency by removing outd….
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Trump’s budget cuts mean that local governments must work smarter.
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RT @atrembath: “The question is whether to prioritize the needs of the existing system or the needs of the public it is supposed to serve.”….
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Trump’s budget cuts mean that local governments must work smarter.
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RT @gquaggiotto: The politics - and mechanics - of reducing policy clutter @pahlkadot.
statesforum.org
As the pandemic put millions of people out of work, states developed a backlog of unemployment insurance claims. Many governors blamed COBOL, a programming
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What is AI good for in government? In this paper for The States Forum, I take this question in a little different direction: it's good for tidying up, which is long overdue. (link below)
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This is just insane.
This is as good an example of mindless admin law as you'll find. To the argument that the error here was completely harmless, the Eighth Circuit was like, "Well, maybe? But who cares, no error is harmless unless we are COMPLETELY SURE it didn't make a difference.".
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@ann_lewis and I have just published an explainer of this product model. It'll be remedial for many of you here, but hopefully a good thing you can point others to as shortcut. Eager for feedback too!
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The government could replicate some private sector practices that have provided results like digitizing more services.
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I've talked a lot in the last year about the need for government to move to a new model for not just development and acquisition of digital goods, but for the funding and oversight of them. You have to move the whole pipeline to the new model or it doesn't really work. 1/2.
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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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