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Why did governing suck?
-had to fight a civil service that had become stagnant, incompetent and partisan under 42 years of one-party rule
-had to lead a caucus full of rookie legislators, a party that had no idea how to govern, and ideologues (both in the labour movement and the party) who weren’t willing to compromise and [...]
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The Long Tail
12May07
As the title of this blog indicates, I’m a sucker for any book which uses the phrase “the tyranny of geography” on more than one page. But for reasons above and beyond that, I want to strongly recommend The Long Tail by Chris Anderson, the Editor in Chief of Wired magazine. In short, this book [...]
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