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Kevin Hawickhorst
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Kevin Hawickhorst writes State Capacitance, a personal blog at statecapacitance.pub about history and politics. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for writing on state capacity, bureaucracy and the history of Work Simplification and Eisenhower-era process improvement. One commenter cited it as a source on agency structure.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Recounting forgotten episodes in government history.
What Hacker News says?
Here is another article about Work Simplification (which was linked but apparently someone can't be bothered to click): https://www.statecapacitance.pub/p/eisenhowers-bureaucrats
Comment linking /p/eisenhowers-bureaucrats
on “Forking Work Simplification – Let's Bring Back Eisenhower's Process Improvement”Submitted Government Administration: An Annotated Bibliography as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhile preserving problems is undoubtedly a natural incentive, I think Hanlon's razor applies here. Just today I was reading Competent Bureaucracy - Rebuilding State Capacity (< https://cdn.sanity.io/files/d8lrla4f/staging/cf7eedaf5d21d27... >) on the topic of agency structure promoting success (the author has done a nice amount of work in the past - e.g. https://www.statecapacitance.pub into this history of this top…
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on “Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)”