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So... My honest take away is: Can you disrupt Washington by coming up with a better coordination tool?

I mean - that's clearly not the bulk of the problem (unclear causal relationships between the actions you can take and the outcomes you want seems to the real problem), but it's specifically cited and seems doable...

...until I think about how well teams inside companies communicate.

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The lack of coordination tooling isn't the problem, the complex interlocking structure of conflicting interests is. The obvious fallout of a congressional communication tool is that it becomes a firehouse of what congress members strategically share to further their own goals.

Part of the problem is probably that there is no money in it: Congressional offices don't have a big enough budget for the staff they need, much less any pieces of software/services.

Isn't software a tool for leverage? If staff is additive, then software is multiplicative. The right software would allow a staff of 10 to do the work of 30 or 100.

I would happily work on something like this for free

Well, the context of working within a company is different. Especially if you rely on the money you're making.

It depends on the company but I would say the thing about Washington and this article makes this point well is that there are a significant number of people actively trying to prevent you from doing anything big because they disagree with your goal. In a company, that's less often the case, although I have seen it at larger places.

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