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Programming note: I always enjoy replies by email as well as comments. They encourage me to do a bit more of this, so don’t hesitate! Theory is insufficient and theory is necessary. Without a model highlighting certain elements of the world for us, we do not have the conceptual bandwidth to process and make sense enough to make decisions. Thanks for reading Dave Guarino's Occasional Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Pledge your support Something I observe in the world of talk about government technology is an occasional implicit model. This model roughly says: “X is bad because it is serving private interests instead of public interests; therefore by making it publicly operated, it will fix the problem, and public interests will be served.” The canonical case of this is the varied scandals around TurboTax and the IRS “Free File” program. The narrative goes, roughly: “TurboTax is private service (part of publicly traded Intuit, Inc.; a fact which m

Public choice theory, government technology, , and management problems all the way down Thinking out loud about an incomplete (if pervasive) mental model of this stuff Dave Guarino Jan 24, 2024 7 1 Share Programming note: I always enjoy replies by email as well as comments . They encourage me to do a bit more of this, so don’t hesitate! Theory is insufficient and theory is necessary. Without a model highlighting certain elements of the world for us, we do not have the conceptual bandwidth to process and make sense enough to make decisions. Thanks for reading Dave Guarino's Occasional Newslette

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