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Curated resources:

• Qualitative Research Career Transition (Google doc from Matt Bernius!)
  • Much like this growing piece of content,

Reading

There are a bunch of Civic Technology book clubs. A well curated list on bookshop.org can be found here: https://bookshop.org/lists/civic-tech-book-club-reading-list

• *A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide* by Cyd Harrell
  • An introduction to some common things that you’ll encounter in government (or bureaucratic) systems. Also shares tips on how to break into the industry.
• *Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means* by Pamela Herd and Don Moynihan
  • When policy is written, it doesn’t magically change the lives of people. It takes hard work. In Administrative Burden, it shares that burdensome processes can take the most idealistic policy and lock the doors for those who most need it… and what we can do to make things accessible.
• Good Services: How to Design Services That Work by Louise Downe
  • Lou Downe is Director of Design for the UK Government and was voted one of the UK's top 50 Creative Leaders by Creative Review in 2016, and one of the world's 100 most influential people in Digital Government by Apolitical in 2018.
• *Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter Your Role On Any Team* by Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai
  • Shares 56 tactics that you can employ to better equip yourself for hacking your own bureaucracy, from using the bureaucracy against itself to claiming that everything is a ‘pilot’.
• Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones) by Marianne Bellotti
  • More likely then not, government services are built on top of aging infrastructure. Sometimes this is a good thing, and sometimes not. Marianne Bellotti shares how to focus your time and modernization efforts.
• *Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology* by Hana Schank and Tara Dawson McGuinness
  • Stories, examples, and more Power to the Public presents a powerful blueprint for how government and nonprofits can help solve society’s most serious problems.
• Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka
  • Sharing why some of our biggest systems are struggling to keep up with the pace of change, and some recommendations for how to make it better!
• *We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems* by Mitchell Weiss
  • Mitchell Weiss shares a blueprint for transforming our government which includes three parts: Government that can imagine, Government that can try new things, Government that can scale.