Jennifer Pahlka

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Jennifer Pahlka is the former deputy chief technology officer of the United States and the founder of nonprofit Code for America. Pahlka is the winner of a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and the author of Recoding America.

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If you have a complex project, follow “Gall’s law” — or it will fail

Functional complex systems arise from functional simple systems. Failing to heed this advice can and will lead to disaster.

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Jennifer Pahlka