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Oh man, I love this. I cut my teeth on FoxPro 2.6 for DOS. You could really get things done in that environment. There were times in later years that I really missed that kind of all-in-one, fully-integrated system.

This describes my experience very accurately. Eventually one can build one's life around the personal flexibility working at home offers, and that can add (even more) real resistance to change, even if change is what might be best.

That's one more way a government isn't a business. Also, didn't Trump campaign on generally minimizing government? Did (does) he also run his businesses in such as way so as to "minimize" them?

Obviously there are approaches that make sense to be common to running both business and government (that probably apply to most everything else as well because they'd seem like "common sense") but, at a high level, to say "run government like a business" is one of those things that only sounds reasonable (possibly) until you think about it.

Indeed. If you were to truly run the government like you'd run a business, wouldn't you "fire" all the older people who are no longer performing at an acceptable level i.e. retired?

I just logged in for the first time in forever to say thanks for a really interesting and thought-provoking read.

"Sequel", or "skewl" when I'm in a hurry. Who has time to say "ess que ell"?

He also did a little write-up around this stuff:

http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/201698.html

Shopify's founder wrote an interesting article on his experience apprenticing in Germany: http://tobi.lutke.com/blogs/news/11280301-the-apprentice-pro...

or, use http://excess.org/urwid/ , which contains awesomeness.