One of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency types who burrowed into the Trump administration after Elon Musk left is now the nation’s first “chief design officer.” Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia is going to turn your government into the Apple Store.
No, really. That’s what he said.
Gebbia was initially tasked with a “digital design challenge” to revamp the retirement process for the Office of Personnel Management, but now he’s going to bring his big brain to the whole of government. So, he’s spinning up a new temporary agency, the fascist-monikered “National Design Studio,” which is seeking … volunteers? Come work for free for the federal government to help yet another Big Tech billionaire do whatever it is they are doing! What a sales pitch.
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