s19e03: Kill Your Gods

This episode was written on Monday October 14 and finished on Wednesday October 16. I think you can tell, unfortunately, that it was interrupted. I don’t like not being able to finish these things in one go.

It’s Monday October 14 in Portland, Oregon, where it continues to be unseasonably warm. Tomorrow is bin day!

0.1 Events: Hallway Track, and Pulling the Cord

Hallway Track 010: Let’s Fix Government Procurement (in the U.S.) was on Wednesday 16 October, at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern.

Our guests were be:

• Kathrin Frauscher, co-founder and Deputy Executive Director of the Open Contracting Partnership.
• Ryan Ko, freelance consultant, co-author of this report, principal of RKO Consulting LLC, former Chief of Staff at Code for America, works with a portfolio of governments and non-profits to build a more human centered government.
• Gennie Nguyen, Social Equity Performance Manager, Procurement Services, at the City of Portland

Here's what the blurb was:

Nobody is happy, and everyone is making do. That’s how a whole bunch of people feel about how procurement works with governments in the U.S.

Procurement is big money (over $4.4 trillion spent every