In his book The Unaccountability Machine, author Dan Davies introduces the idea of an “accountability sink” a construct where responsibility is deliberately diluted or dispersed so that no single person can easily be blamed for a decision that gets made. This concept can be a useful lens for understanding some...
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In my last post, I talked about how to save our world from a consumer standpoint. Today Id like to talk about the other side - how we move forward as people who build and create things. Between government layoffs and the tech sector ones, there are not enough IT...
Theres an old truism in software engineering called Conways Law. It goes like this: Any organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure. In other words, how a teamor a government agencyis structured shows up in the way it...
Technical debt is typically thought of as outdated code or neglected infrastructure, and is usually associated with custom software development. But vendor lock-in is one of the most under-appreciated forms of technical debt, and it isn’t reserved just to custom solutions. When agencies are too tightly coupled to a proprietary...
I know a lot of folks are out of work right now, so I spent some time to refresh my website to help keep track of what jobs youve applied for: Job.Hunt.Works. Its not a jobs board (like the one I already run), but rather a tool to keep track...
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