Jennifer Pahlka
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Jennifer Pahlka is an American author and advisor on how government delivers technology.
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8 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 27 December 1969, Port Deposit, Maryland (opens wiqqi.app)
- Founded: Code for America (2009); executive director until 31 January 2020; left its board in April 2023 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Government: US Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Office of Science and Technology Policy, June 2013 to June 2014; helped found the United States Digital Service (opens wiqqi.app)
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Newsletter: Eating Policy (opens www.eatingpolicy.com)
“Weekend short read: Fire is a metaphor, until its not”
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Newsletter: Eating Policy (opens www.eatingpolicy.com)
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20 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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A century of fire suppression policy in the American West has dangerously overloaded forests with fuel and made megafires more likely. (opens korrents.com)
“We now know that fires are necessary for healthy forests, that a century of fire suppression in the West has been disastrous.”
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Regulatory delays are driven more by the incentives built into the bureaucracy administering the rules than by the substance of the rules themselves. (opens korrents.com)
“The difference is mostly the delay, which stems not necessarily from the regulation itself, but from the incentives in the machinery that administers it.”
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Legislators generally lose interest in an issue once the political work of passing a law is finished. (opens korrents.com)
“our lawmakers tend to stop paying attention once the political work is done.”
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A century of fire suppression policy in the American West has dangerously overloaded forests with fuel and made megafires more likely. (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Orbital (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is going to be an odd post, just a too-long passage from a book I’m reading: Orbital, by Samantha Harvey. But hey, it’s the holidays. Harvey describes Orbital as a “space pastoral.” It is set on the International…”
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Orbital (opens rcmnd.app)