Luke Farrell
Fellow at the Better Government Project and former technologist at the U.S. Digital Service; writes on government program design and the 'means-testing industrial complex', with hands-on experience modernizing federal and state benefit systems.
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Feb 26, 2026 • 1h 22min
Understanding government procurement, with Luke Farrell
Luke Farrell, a former U.S. Digital Service technologist and fellow at the Better Government Project, tackles why government procurement produces brittle, costly digital systems. They discuss recurrent vendor lock-in, repeated payments for the same code, Kafkaesque application flows, means-testing complexity, and how modular contracts and in-house technical capacity could reshape outcomes.
