{"id":4652,"date":"2024-06-30T11:19:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T16:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2024-06-30T11:19:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T16:19:54","slug":"book-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2024\/06\/30\/book-recommendation\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Something my brother said I should listen to.  What following is a redacted bit that I&#8217;d sent my work colleagues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"580\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_sQVNpKT8eeiBIp&#038;asin=B0B8644ZGY&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>instead of doing what I planned for this weekend, I got the audio book version of that.&nbsp;&nbsp;(Instead of doing what my original intention was\u2026.and finally fulfilling my nerd requirements of the various&nbsp;<em>Star Wars<\/em>&nbsp;movies\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interesting. I have a college friend who worked at 18F, now USGS, after a stint at Google.&nbsp;I absolutely agree with her takeaways on the tech, but I do disagree with some of her conclusions.&nbsp;&nbsp;(My friend is now at Apple, having tired of the DC climate, and the annoyances of working in government\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>**snip**<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do recommend the book, even if I don\u2019t entirely agree with some of her priors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something my brother said I should listen to. What following is a redacted bit that I&#8217;d sent my work colleagues: instead of doing what I planned for this weekend, I got the audio book version of that.&nbsp;&nbsp;(Instead of doing what my original intention was\u2026.and finally fulfilling my nerd requirements of the various&nbsp;Star Wars&nbsp;movies\u2026) Interesting. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}