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…

Jul 2025

The Long Road to Congestion Pricing. Part 3: The Sisyphean Bagel

How Digital Foundations Increase Chances for Policy Success

Will There Be a Second Congestion Pricing City?New York City's congestion charge is working as well as could be imagined. Even minor downsides aren't materializing. Yet the long, exhausting path to this success highlights an anger-inducing reality: hundreds of…

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