A review by jazzsequence
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka

challenging informative slow-paced

3.0

This is an important book. Like many important books, it’s hard and occasionally dense. The author does a good job of making and explaining her points but it’s written very non-linearly, which means occasionally she’ll return to a subject from three chapters ago and talk about someone by name and you might be left thinking “wait, who is this person?” 

I get the point and I get the subject. It’s illuminating in how it reveals much of government’s technology failures, not just what failed but why. But the point seems a little lost, the call to action isn’t very strong, and it takes a while to get there.