How a program ages: the six stages of public perception
More than twenty years ago, at a housing conference I co-chaired where I was describing a then-nifty innovation in affordable housing finance, someone tossed up the doubting-Thomas question, “Why get in now? Why not wait until things are clearer?”
I’m not ready to take a position on the matter
“Because,” I extemporaneously shot back without thinking, [...]
