I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
A lot of time is spent on messaging sessions to discover winning ideas. It is a good way to start to illicit public policy and policy ideas that will help you win. But, it is just the start of a process that will lead to the progressive incremental elimination of the first tranche of ideas … Read more
I’ve just read Kevin Kelly’s ‘Excellent Advice for Living’. He was interviewed on a Farnham Street Podcast. This is a take on his advice from a perspective of a lobbyist. None of this is original. They are just things that I would find useful as a young campaigner and lobbyist. 1-202 was the first draft. … Read more
If you find your days full of back-to-back meetings, here are some tactics that I found helped. 1 . Screencast If you find that you are giving the same talk to group after group, screencast your talk and send it in advance. The 20 minutes it will take you to record will send you … Read more
On Monday, the Heads of Cabinet adopted items for the College to adopt from 24 May to 19 September that dropped some expected Food and Biodiversity proposals. By Wednesday, those proposals had returned. I’d like to see the official minutes of HEBDO to understand what led to the delay. Maybe the calls from … Read more