#57 - Tom Kalil on how to do the most good in government

You’re 29 years old, and you’ve just been given a job in the White House. How do you quickly figure out how the US Executive Branch behemoth actually works, so that you can have as much impact as possible - before you quit or get kicked out?<p> That was the challenge put in front of Tom Kalil in 1993.</p><p> He had enough success to last a full 16 years inside the Clinton and Obama administrations, working to foster the development of the internet, then nanotechnology, and then cutting-edge brain modelling, among other things.</p><p> But not everyone figu...