honestly this makes me much more bullish on doge

The retirement process for every federal employee involves a paper application, filing cabinets, and a mainframe in a mine. 
 
Until today.
 
See the story behind the first digital retirement: https://t.co/0WRz5HLiwp

Excited to share I’m bringing my designer brain and start-up spirit into the government. My first project at DOGE is improving the slow and paper-based retirement process.

Since leaving my operating role at Airbnb in 2022, I’ve been looking for the next digital design challenge.…

Joe Gebbia

honestly this makes me much more bullish on doge https://x.com/jgebbia/status/1895217230314410144?s=46

design @splits | /wireframe /latenightcrew /event-pass /feud

See at this point I just think the opposite. It makes me think Joe Gebbia is evil, not that DOGE will improve 💀 What self interest is he trying to carve out here is my thought

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Honestly without having met him or Elon I have no idea. Could be that too.

But anecdotally I “trust” Gebbia more than Elon. 

I also would like to believe that even if elon is nuts, doge could attract smart people who generally want to improve the function of the US government.

may be wishful thinking…

Well I should say I strongly prefer the intellect be used to reform and improve systems of government rather than destroy them blindly.

But how do we even know they are or are not making intelligent decisions? It just feels so non transparent.

They took scroll decipherer Luke Farritor and are using him to bypass the wishes of Congresspeople. They don’t even need the intellect IMO. You don’t see any of it exercised in making intelligent decisions about what to cut. It’s a way to smart wash indiscriminate destruction