Insights on government transformation

Sep 2025

Between Tech Escapism and Institutional Paralysis

The Moment for Government Transformation

It is outrageous that the mandate to dream big about tech and government has been captured by AI accelerationists, crypto evangelists, and Mars escapists. Meanwhile, progressives confine themselves to the existing machinery, then act surprised when the outputs…

Sep 2025

Government by Impulse

On "Vibe-Presidenting"

AI now promises anyone can be a coder based on instinct—and increasingly, vibes are running the country.

Aug 2025

What Societal Abundance Feels Like

When our brains go from scarcity to possibility

The Abundance discourse usually zooms in on the problems and a selection of solutions, opening with the book’s litmus test-cum-organizing principle: Is this a problem that could be solved with more supply? It suggests a break from our operating mode of scarcit…

Apr 2025

Abundant Government: How Automation Can Save Proceduralism

How to keep the ‘good’ rules now strangling the goals they were meant to serve.

Meeting the Abundance Challenge

Feb 2025

DOGE and the Death of Institutional Reform

The Battle for the Soul of Government Modernization

Don't underestimate a shameless master technologist who wields unlimited resources, dominates the channels of information, and has the backing of the party in power! Articulating this caricature only reinforces how Musk is playing the supervillain on the natio…