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Ethan Marcotte, who is one of the most principled and thoughtful people I have ever known and also a dear friend, has resigned from his job at 18F after being asked to meet with shadowy gov-dismantlers. The whole post is worth reading.
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leaving-18f/
Apparently necessary: Do not be an asshole in my replies about something you’d didn’t even bother to read or understand, this is not Facebook.
@kissane The frustrating thing is 18F and other groups like it in Public Service were beginning to really move the tech needle. As a state agency CIO (and someone who might have a history of being an occasional heretic myself), I have had the honor of watching a growing group of motivated IT people push against a system that was crying for new and compassionate approaches to making government work better, only to now watch much of it getting systematically torn down.
It breaks my heart.
@NoRomBasic @kissane I've literally never heard of them before today. Seems like it was a sensible thing to have though - experts who were civil servants, helping government function!
MST has been on similar journey, hiring an "outsider CIO" back in 22 to bring similar approaches to a small public transit agency. And we have made some real progress, with a lot of credit going to 18F and other small enclaves of geeks for helping to build a supporting ecosystem that allowed me to do some transformation stuff that would not have been easily doable even 5 years ago
Now, almost daily, I’m seeing the pieces of this movement get dismantled.
Again it breaks my heart