"Outcome reviews" with elected leaders help close the gap between policy intents and real world outcomes. @pahlkadot.bsky.social www.eatingpolicy.com/p/outcomes-r...
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"Outcome reviews" with elected leaders help close the gap between policy intents and real world outcomes. @pahlkadot.bsky.social www.eatingpolicy.com/p/outcomes-r...
A promising experiment in closing the loop between legislations and real-world outcomes:
www.eatingpolicy.com/p/outcomes-r...
Excellent use of "rococo" (and a good reminder of how useful that word is in Spelling Bee) paired with a shout out for everyone's favorite crackpot, Charles Guiteau. No, he's not a chocolate maker.
If you care about Mamdani's success, you might want to read this.
www.eatingpolicy.com/p/robert-mos...
This week we were joined by @pahlkadot.bsky.social & Robert Gordon for a conversation about their new project, Recode America, & how they are working to reimagine our regulatory process so that government at all levels can effectively deliver for Americans. open.substack.com/pub/statesfo...
I am a huge Manoush Zomorodi fan, so getting to be on NPR's TED Radio Hour was a real treat. We talked about how to update the operating model of government in the service of our democracy. Take a listen!
www.npr.org/2025/10/31/n...
Congrats to @pahlkadot.bsky.social & @robertgo.bsky.social on the launch of the Recoding America Fund!
America needs new, bold policy solutions that are ready to deliver effective governing & improve people's lives.
We're excited to work together towards this future. www.recodingamerica.fund
Announcing the Recoding America Fund! It's time to update the operating model of government. eatingpolicy.substack.com/p/announcing...
What happens when a team turns a failure into a dramatic success? Sometimes, their hard work and courage earn them a GAO nastygram. That's because the GAO holds them accountable to the wrong operating model. www.eatingpolicy.com/p/gao-gets-s...
Choose your variety of abundance. It's like having your colors done, but actually useful.
www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-va...
Thank you!!
“As any gardener knows, planting is not the hard part. Gardening is about creating the right conditions: tending and fertilizing the soil, watering, weeding to give seedlings the space they need to grow.
Effective leadership in today’s sclerotic government also requires cultivation”
In which I argue that Weeding is Fundamental. :)
www.eatingpolicy.com/p/better-pol...
Per @pahlkadot.bsky.social, “You can’t redistribute what doesn’t exist.”
Successful abundance policies must reduce the barriers that make it hard to access resources AND increase the supply of those resources.
💼 “To transform the operations of the public sector, leaders will need both courage and creativity. Government unions and contractors alike will be uncomfortable." @nytimes.com @robertgo.bsky.social @pahlkadot.bsky.social buff.ly/fS3RQch
You can have government efficiency or you can wage the culture war through administrative policy.
You can't have both.
@gabemenchaca.bsky.social @pahlkadot.bsky.social
Government can deliver better digital services—but only if it adopts the right operating model. Our new piece at @niskanencenter.bsky.social with @pahlkadot.bsky.social explains why moving from projects to products is the path to services that actually work. www.niskanencenter.org/the-product-...
The President Accounts. A 1939 film by The Government. Newly available in the public domain. archive.org/details/FedF...
Bay Area people: I'll be in SF on June 24th and would love to see you at Mannys!
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
"I no longer believe that incremental fixes are enough."
I get very excited when leaders like Seemay make big, bold moves like this. More of this, please!
This is an excellent explanation of the politics of Abundance, and how it relates to the populist left. Must read.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
"San Francisco’s municipal code runs about the same length...as 75 “Moby Dick"s and counting. No lawyer, or even a team of them, could ever muck out all the redundant and outdated sections contained in it. So City Attorney David Chiu is calling in Stanford’s AI experts to help him out."
Just like Congress in the 90s, DOGE ate dessert first. The meal is yet to be served. www.eatingpolicy.com/p/what-doge-...
More on what they should have done here: www.eatingpolicy.com/p/what-doge-...
Great read from @pahlkadot.bsky.social as Musk leaves DOGE www.eatingpolicy.com/p/what-doge-.... We have similar problems in the UK government and need action to fix them
The wise @pahlkadot.bsky.social uses this slide with "Hill staffers who ask me what they should do to improve the performance of an underperforming agency." The key contrast is "something is wrong with these people" vs. "something is wrong with this system." Friction-fixers are system-fixers!
Work requirements are welfare for Deloitte.
And all of a sudden, the House has a bipartisan Build America caucus!
OK, we've imagined the Abundance omelet. Now, which eggs should we break, and how? That analysis must begin with a grasp on how the law promotes scarcity and where legal tools can crack it. It also reveals the bigger-than-Democrats dimension to this. hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/building-a...
