I Tried To Fix Government Tech for Years. I’m Fed Up.
When I helped create the United States Digital Service (USDS), it was not on my bingo board that it would become the U.S. DOGE Service a mere decade later. As a lifelong libertarian, the years I spent trying to make government more efficient at the Department of Veterans Affairs (V.A.) and USDS required a lot of patience. Now I’m fresh out. We have been making tiny, barely perceptible “improvements,” paid for with years of compromise and hand-holding in […]