Build For Tomorrow

We Can Make Politics Smarter

Dec 27, 2021

45:58

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

The Way to Dunk on a Senator

03:30

The Media Is Just a Monolith

02:57

Tech Congress - I Want to Work in Government

03:15

Introduction

6min

Build for Tomorrow Episode 5 - What I Learned From a Gaff

4min

Obama's a Tex Savy, but He Couldn't Name a Jas Song.

3min

Do You Have 15 Minutes to Brief Your Grandpa?

2min

Congressional Hearings Are Like Trial Balloons

2min

The Media Is Just a Monolith

3min

The Finsta Hearing

2min

What's Up in Instagram?

2min

The Internet Is a Series of Tubes

3min

10.

The Revolving Door Problem in Government Briefing

3min

11.

Are You in the Middle of a Gaff?

2min

12.

The Way to Dunk on a Senator

4min

13.

Rethinking the Model for Staffers

2min

14.

Tech Congress - I Want to Work in Government

3min

15.

Is There a Constituency for Smartness?

5min

We like to laugh at lawmakers for their technology ignorance, like when Sen. Richard Blumenthal asked a Facebook executive if she’ll “commit to ending finsta.” But how do gaffes like these actually happen? The answer is more complicated than you'd think. In this episode, a deep investigation into the cause and effects of a political gaffe — and why it's something that we, together, should want to fix.

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