There’s been a line of innovation in 18F trying to answer “does every state and locality really need to build and maintain so many nearly identical technologies?” [1/5] https://twitter.com/gquaggiotto/status/1302082395135332352

Some attempts at the “why not reuse?” problem have included building key technologies and offering them for free, packaging existing solutions for reuse, creating open source directories, driving community….

I won’t say they've failed, but they haven’t succeeded either. [2/5]

This “tinkerers mindset” framing is an interesting alternative for civic technology and would need a shift in focus from technology (which we knew already) towards organizational health and a mentality of freely recombining insights. [3/5]

It suggests that we should not be afraid of derelict repos or denigrate dead-end hackathon projects, like @mheadd argues [4/5] https://twitter.com/mheadd/status/1299330197683081216

Projects that offer building blocks to fellow tinkerers are exciting, and I bet things like this will have a long afterlife: https://18f.gsa.gov/2020/05/12/rapid-implementation-of-policy-as-code/

Big idea (policy as code), small steps, free to everyone, including the learning along the way @sawtoothwave @alexsoble [5/5]