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Becoming a policy entrepreneur (with Tom Kalil)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Is It Possible to Build a Coalition?
I'm definitely thinking about some version of expected return in the sense of if this initiative were successful, what is the potential upside and then what is the probability of success? There was a famous baseball coach whose name I'm forgetting, but he used to tell his players hit him where they ate. And the National Nanotechnology Initiative was a great example of that because there was no one on the other side. In 1999 and 2000, virtually no one in the US government outside of the science agencies knew what nanoscale science and engineering was. So it is possible to make more progress if you're not in an area that is heavily contested.
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