“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
For six and a half years I served as a public official on the California Coastal Commission.
Since it’s been a year since I resigned, it’s time to tell a few stories about what I learned as a Coastal Commissioner.
Each and every month I learned something new about human nature, deception and greed.
Here’s Lesson 2: Hostages Strapped to the Tank. (see here for Lesson 1.)
Background
The California coast is a panorama of open farm fields and hundreds of miles of undeveloped land. Highway 1 (the Pacific Coast Highway) follows the coast for almost the entire length of the state. The kind of road you see in car ads and movies, it looks like it was built to be driven in a sports car with the top down. The almost 400…
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