Bryan Hirsch

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

Making Automatic Record Clearance a People Centered, End-to-End Service — Code for America The state of automatic record clearance in the US shows hope for a future where more people get the help they need to achieve a fresh start

The biggest takeaway from the first day of #CfASummit was that 70-100 million Americans have some kind of criminal record, which causes a lifetime's worth of "collateral consequences", particularly when it comes to their career prospects. Really impressed by CfA's work on automatic record clearance.

$80B in government aid goes unused every year. #CfASummit

This post makes me wish BlueSky would let me give an infinite number of <3s, the way I can give an infinite number of claps on Medium.

"Bend the arc of the universe toward awesome." - Todd Park
#CfASummit

What I learned in two years of moving government forms online Two years ago, I started at the City of Boston with a simple yet comically broad mandate: Get rid of paper forms and PDFs. The nascent…

The struggle is real

I can see BlueSky is creating "cards" when I paste hyperlinks into my posts. Bummer that this client doesn't render hyperlinks or do anything with those cards. :(

4/ When digital service teams or vendors go away after launching new technology, improvements depreciate quickly if Agile, constituent-centered design, continuous improvement go away too. Feeling excited—and a little intimidated—about committing myself to this problem space next!

3/ Tech Talent Project does so much more than I realized! Wow!

Job Seekers, sign up for their list here: https://techtalentproject.org/tech-talent/. There are more job fairs coming!

Govies, get the guide here and make a friend at the Tech Talent Project! https://techtalentproject.org/government/

2/ United States Digital Service is trying a new approach to improving service delivery in the federal government. There’s so much great research happening here! And so many exemplary artifacts we can use for reference in our work at all levels of government! https://www.performance.gov/cx/projects/

1/ Really enjoyed being back at #CfASummit for the first time since the pandemic! Thank you Code for America for bringing us together! Here my three top takeaways from the Summit:

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