Writing
Observations, lessons, and musings published on Substack.
Feb 2026
'Transform Government'—And Introducing Civic Transformation Advisors
It’s been a long time coming, but here’s my piece in Vital City: Technology Transformation Will Make or Break Progressive Governance. The themes will be familiar to any of my regular readers, but in the piece I target NYC’s Office of Technology & Innovatio…
Jan 2026
Quick, imperfect takes for the New Year
My writing on here has taken the think-piece form. I’ve loved using the writing process to learn, to reveal, to arrive somewhere I didn’t expect. But working through ideas also means a growing weight of topics I want dive into and share, but can’t give suffici…
Sep 2025
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
On "Vibe-Presidenting"
AI now promises anyone can be a coder based on instinct—and increasingly, vibes are running the country.
Aug 2025
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…
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