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Experimenting in Public
"Y’all liars,” one mayor said from the back of the classroom, not lightly, as I could tell from the look on his face. And not under his breath, as I could tell from the reactions of the thirty-nine other mayors in the room.1
To be fair, I had possibly set the mayors up. The first time I asked the question (with a different audience), I had no idea how people would respond to it. Not students. Not citizens. Not elected officials. But this was now the ninth or tenth time, and I had an inkling how these mayors might answer.
I’d asked them to put themselves in another leader’s shoes: those of Mayor Miguel Mancera, in Mexico City in 2016. His government had tried to crowdsource a map of Mexico City’s tangled bus system from ...
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