Trapped by the Pursuit of Efficiency

When tech is the end goal, we lose sight of everything that truly matters.

The newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) aims to drastically cut the U.S. federal budget and workforce. Just this week, President Trump launched a callous, harmful, and and likely illegal plan to slash the size of the civil service. I worked in government for nearly a decade. I’m not naive to bureaucracy and redundancies — but this i…