I don’t have a full name yet for my current non-fiction Work In Progress, but I’m hoping it will be my first book out of the gate once I’m retired. I just have to wrestle 5 Nobel prize-winning economists to the ground, pin them, and steal their moves. Piece of cake, right?

Unfinished business from 2007-2008

Back in 2007, I was working at ESDC in the policy and integration unit of their strategic policy branch. My ADM at the time was considered a policy bigwig in government with one of the largest policy branches anywhere. And he was genuinely brilliant. He had commitments for the year for four files, including medium-term planning (MTP) and an Integrated Policy Framework (IPF), the latter of which was mine.

I never landed the IPF. I think I did 92 versions in deck form, not including about 40 or 50 in which we didn’t iterate on levels. Of those 92, I would say there were about 15-16 major versions, and the rest were incremental minor changes. At the time, I wasn’t quite sure why they didn’t land. I was too close to it.

Now that I’m about to retire, I’ve dusted off the IPF, and I’m building a new one.… Read the rest