The key lesson for politicians: beware of vision. The future will probably mess up your vision. Instead of taking giant irreversible leaps, be backward-looking and evidence-based: what boring complex policy worked somewhere before?
This quote describes a common failure mode. At the same time, if no one experimented with new visionary ideas, there wouldn’t be examples for others to draw lessons from.
Simon Kuper
This quote describes a common failure mode. At the same time, if no one experimented with new visionary ideas, there wouldn’t be examples for others to draw lessons from.