People in tech need to become radically more skilled at interfacing with government. To the extent that we have some manifest competency issues in government right now, we can’t simply sit out here and gripe about this on podcasts, etc. We’ve got to go out and do something about it.
I think it’s been reported that there was a meeting among tech leaders early in the vaccination effort where a bunch of people got in a room and were like, “this is going terribly. I hope someone fixes it.” “I hope someone fixes it” is no longer a realistic alternative. We have to be part of the solution.
This interview is so rich with detail and motivating ideas that I listened to it twice in one week.
Patrick McKenzie is most widely known as patio11 online - his site.