The Japanese government is extremely capable of awarding status to bureaucrats, and historically that gets a lot of Japan's best to select into joining the bureaucracy. Whether that has broadly positive results is a complex topic that I am someone constrained from discussing.
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Government Lacks Reward Pathways for Innovation Success
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But we have basically no pathway for rewarding success. Mikey mentions that if you invent Gmail you end up taking home an eight figure award. Not only can we not do that in government (our own choice, to be clear), we can't even seem to award status for success.
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Government RFP Process Favors Bidding Over Software Delivery
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Instead we focus on structural issues in e.g. how the government sends out RFPs and gets bids by the usual suspects, who are perfectly adapted to winning bids and don't put that many points into actually shipping software, because the government buys process not outcomes.
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Government Digital Transformation: Dickerson on Healthcare.gov and Digital Service
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This week on Complex Systems I was honored to interview Mikey Dickerson, probably best known as one of the architects of the healthcare dot gov rescue operation. He also founded the US Digital Service. We discussed government software, procurement, and staffing.
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Claude Code Now Included in Max Plan Subscription
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We're adding a subscription billing option for Claude Code. Max plan subscribers now get Claude Code included as part of their plan.
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Rodrigo Liang Finalist for EY Entrepreneur of Year Award
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Huge congrats to @RodrigoLiang on being named a finalist for the @EYnews 2025 Entrepreneur of the Year Bay Area Award! The competition is fierce, & being recognized among the Bay Area’s top innovators is no small feat. Let’s give it up for a true trailblazer! #EOY2025
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Cloud Migration Success: Foundation, Costs, and Governance
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Successful public cloud migration involves laying a strong foundation, avoiding cost traps, and implementing effective governance. Source @Gartner_inc Link https://
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AI Adoption Strategy for Financial Services Security Compliance
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AI is no longer a "nice to have" in today’s competitive financial services landscape; it’s a must. In our upcoming webinar, our experts will share how financial institutions can adopt AI strategically, without compromising security or compliance. Register now:
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Autonomous AGI Business: Alpha Opportunities Value Creation
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An α‑AGI Business is a fully autonomous enterprise (.a.agi.eth) that identifies latent “alpha” opportunities across all industries and converts them into compounding value by out‑learning, out‑thinking, out‑designing, out‑strategizing, and out‑executing all
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Alpha-AGI Business: Self-Governing Multi-Agent Enterprise Framework
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An α‑AGI Business (.a.agi.eth) is an antifragile, self‑governing multi‑agent (.a.agent.agi.eth) enterprise that continuously hunts latent “alpha” across domains & transforms them into sustainable value under a secure, auditable governance framework. GitHub: