What Jennifer Pahlka thinks about permitting

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Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014.

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1. 22 Aug 2026

   Our readingRegulatory delays are driven more by the incentives built into the bureaucracy administering the rules than by the substance of the rules themselves.

   Their wordsThe difference is mostly the delay, which stems not necessarily from the regulation itself, but from the incentives in the machinery that administers it.

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