Trying to make a difference isn’t about TED talks and creating inspiration, there’s enough inspiration out there for millennia to come.
What we need is more effort in the boring, long, hard slog making real improvements to things that actually affect our lives today. We don’t need more talk.
This is why I work in government.
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