# Mikey Dickerson

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2025-W19 Australian Adventures & Lemonade Stands

In this episode, Casey recounts his recent trip to Australia to visit family and friends, while Christine shares her experience running a lemonade stand fundraiser for their children's preschool. They discuss ongoing technical and creative projects, explore the challenges of educational systems for…

Jennifer Pahlka on Reforming Government for the AI Era

In this special episode recorded at Fathom’s 2026 Ashby Workshops, Greg sits down with Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America and author of Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better. Jennifer walks us through her career journey, from filing paperw…

Payroll, pins, and punch cards

In this episode of Complex Systems, Patrick McKenzie riffs on why public sector payroll modernization is even more likely to fail than the typical public software procurement project. He then goes into a wider discussion about payroll providers and their role as software, payment rails, and a sink …

Crisis Engineering & Political Tech with Mikey Dickerson of Layer Aleph

Mikey Dickerson returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his firm Layer Aleph, which helps enterprises through technical crises, and his new book "Crisis Engineering: Time-Tested Tools for Turning Chaos Into Clarity".

The One with Crisis Engineering and Mikey Dickerson

Crisis Engineer Mikey Dickerson joins us to talk about what constitutes a crisis. Mikey draws on his broad experience across industry and the public sector, as well as on work with his team of systems fixers.

Mikey Dickerson: Crisis engineering

The U.S. government is no stranger to a good crisis, and neither is Mikey Dickerson, the inaugural administrator of the U.S. Digital Service under the Obama administration who served as one of the White House's top advisers at the time to fix the broken Healthcare.gov systems. Dickerson joins CTRL…

Crisis Engineering with Matthew Weaver and Mikey Dickerson

In Crisis Engineering: Time-Tested Tools for Turning Chaos Into Clarity, Matthew Weaver and Mikey Dickerson argue that organizational crises are not problems to be survived but are rare windows in which rapid, directed transformation becomes possible within days rather than years. Weaver was a foun…

"Crisis Engineering" with Layer Aleph

Someone recently put me onto the book Crisis Engineering by Marina Nitze, Matthew Weaver, and Mikey Dickerson. It is unfortunately not about how to engineer a crisis, which would be very fun, but about how to leverage a crisis as one of the rare moments where a company is actually open to change. I…

How People Work, Live! ... with Weaver

In this episode, Dan talks with Weaver about what happens in the first few days of a Layer Aleph engagement, and how crisis conditions offer potential to change how people work. Weaver is a co-founder of the crisis engineering firm Layer Aleph, which embeds inside organizations to swiftly surface …

You can't make sense of the world alone with a chatbot.

Hi there, Welcome back to Untangled. It’s written by me, ​​​​​​​​​​​Charley Johnson​​​​​​​​​​​, and valued​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ by ​​​​​​​​members​​​​​​​​ like you. ​​​​​​​Help me make it better?​​​​ This week I’m sharing my conversation with Marina Nitze — former CTO of the Department of Veterans A…