deaves.bsky.social
Assoc Prof & Dep Co-Director at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL. Also Investment committee CoDevelop.fund Digital Government & Transformation, Digital Public Infrastructure, ReCollect co-founder & CEO, Father, Negotiator & Learner
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We are… about to find out? Woof.
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Yeah that is aligned in ways with @drodrik.bsky.social’s take
amp.scmp.com/opinion/worl...
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Either the aims are to destroy the country or… who knows what?
Buckle up. This will only end when the pain in the US becomes intolerable or the economies disconnect as much as they can.
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Just look at how we view hoodies. On Mark Zuckerberg, the hoodie is a symbol of whiz kid meritocracy breaking norms and developing the New Economy. On people like Trayvon Martin, the hoodie is sometimes seen as proof of criminality. Again, it's about the bodies beneath the clothes.
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Meeting PIFs was so great. People who mostly just wanted to serve using the skills they had.
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We did that over the pandemic. So much fun.
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Also, I tell student that agile is not a universally good approach to making policy. We can debate whether this was agile, but I do get the sense that this was a "test the waters." So... both iterative and less costly then really committing to it? A generous interpretation.