I’m a sucker for books about change. I want to be a better person, writer, and athlete. So I feast on books like “Outliers,” “Freakonomics,” “Googled,” “The Tipping Point” and a new one by Chip Heath and Dan Heath called “Switch.”
And I don’t change, or at least not much. Maybe reading and thinking about change is a poor substitute for making friends, taking piano lessons, writing a novel, and doing more pushups. Which brings me to the slightly weird campaign to reinvent local government. Big Brother meets Up With People and the Chamber of Commerce. I’m not sure who and what is behind this and why, but I know one thing: the proper role of journalists is to be journalists, not boosters.
