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Moving on from 18F

I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening.

The third was driven at least in part by the election, and by the billionaire they were putting in charge of “government tech modernization.” I expected that if things went south, he’d just try to run the same horrible , and bring in employees from his other companies to rank — and cull — workers. A few weeks ago, a member of the new leadership announced they’d be reaching out to workers to discuss their recent “technical wins”, in order to better understand how the organization worked. If the American government is slow-moving, it’s because rapid change is deadly when you’re talking about healthcare, social security checks, market regulations, food safety, or any of the other countless critical functions it performs.

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