When talking with Brad at Transparency Camp 2013, he was talking about Spinoza vs. Descartes, which I interpreted to be about duality vs. unity.

duality is experientially and psychologically true unity is physically true

Notes from Foundation.bz videos: "build what you want to see" "what makes something approachable?"

book: e-myth Deming

-- Financial relationship of state and city and al government CA-ILG?

-- Liberationtech: UK Tax System Uses Web Robots to Find Cheats http://is.gd/BSblU3

Original Tweet:

UK Tax System Uses Web Robots to Find Cheats http://is.gd/BSblU3

— Liberationtech (@Liberationtech) June 18, 2011 Sent via TweetDeck (www.tweetdeck.com)

api.gov? govapi.org

GovApi.

If government is platform, what is the API?

API is defined as (by Wikipedia), but more importantly, the underlying concept involves inputs and outputs.

What do we put into government (taxes) and what do we get from it (services)?

-- Civic Thinking decision-makers: law, boards those affected by decisions: citizens, businesses, public employees

Help companies instrument their products and processes for data-driven success.

Be explicit about assumptions, just like a 'spec' in software development.

design your information