Paul Salama

Label: Abundant Government: How Automation Can Save Proceduralism Background: Vintage-style illustration of three diverging roads labeled Deregulation, Proceduralism, and Automation (green middle path) leading to a thriving city-nature landscape.

From #Abundance folks, I keep hearing that to shrink timelines government must pick: slash the rules ✂️ or double-down on red tape 🐌.
From my @cornelltech.bsky.social work I know there’s a middle road: #Automation. Turn months into seconds ⌛.
Full story ➜ urbantechsupport.substack.com/p/abundant-g...

01.05.2025 19:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Label: Abundant Government: How Automation Can Save Proceduralism Background: Vintage-style illustration of three diverging roads labeled Deregulation, Proceduralism, and Automation (green middle path) leading to a thriving city-nature landscape.

From #Abundance folks, I keep hearing that to shrink timelines government must pick: slash the rules ✂️ or double-down on red tape 🐌.
From my @cornelltech.bsky.social work I know there’s a middle road: #Automation. Turn months into seconds ⌛.
Full story ➜ urbantechsupport.substack.com/p/abundant-g...

01.05.2025 19:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The origin story of Bari Weiss and The Free Press is that they were fighting for free speech, but the real origin story is that as a student she tried to get Middle Eastern professors fired. They are a snitch organization for the Trump regime.

29.03.2025 14:54 — 👍 4366    🔁 1151    💬 52    📌 34

I have a serious question about this kind of thing. Why quit? That allows for a headline about your resignation, but that’s it. Stay and refuse to comply, get as much as you can in writing, and make them fire you improperly, get a severance and sue for wrongful dismissal if it’s an available option.

18.02.2025 17:11 — 👍 96    🔁 22    💬 9    📌 3

Driving blind: NYC subways steered by 1930s tech, paper maps and a lot of hope Ever experience a subway delay at DeKalb Avenue near the foot of the Manhattan bridge? Thank Great Depression era-tech.

This from @gothamist.com brought me back to my shocking experience visiting the NYCT control center.
I was expecting something out of movies: digital displays showing each train.
But the reality was bleak. Printed maps and landlines (and pros!) holding things together.
gothamist.com/news/driving...

16.01.2025 19:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Transformation > Effectiveness > Efficiency Or, DOGT>DOGE

✨ First Post: Transformation > Effectiveness > Efficiency
Why #effectiveness, not #efficiency, is the key to rebuilding trust in government—and how #SpaceX-level ambition could inspire something beyond that: public sector #transformation.
open.substack.com/pub/letters2...

12.01.2025 19:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Letters to Elon; Memos for Leslie | Paul S. | Substack Explorations of how technology can reshape government, urbanism, and our shared future. Click to read Letters to Elon; Memos for Leslie, by Paul S., a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

Announcing: Letters to Elon; Memos for Leslie 🚀
A newsletter exploring the messy collisions and persistent gaps between #technology and #governance. We’re in a defining moment where MAGA + techno-libertarianism could shape global trajectories.
letters2elonmemos4leslie.substack.com

12.01.2025 19:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Have always admired @alonlevy.bsky.social's writing. His latest did not disappoint & this line is a banger:

> The truth is that there’s nothing that can be learned from American [transit] projects within living memory except what not to do.

pedestrianobservations.com/2024/12/07/l...

12.12.2024 18:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Paging @annielowrey.bsky.social

27.11.2024 16:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dispiriting but true: it’s very unlikely that a different liberal policy regime would’ve saved Dems this cycle, but a different information environment very well could have. www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...

13.11.2024 16:44 — 👍 932    🔁 201    💬 59    📌 25

🚨DC Circuit Court says #CEQ doesn't have rulemaking authority for #NEPA 🚨
Potentially enormous downstream impacts for #EnvironmentalLaw, #Planning, #CleanEnergy and more.
media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...

12.11.2024 19:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0