Mostly I try to find places where I think there is an opportunity to make significant leaps in the way we engage in solving a problem--usually one that has a kind of public policy angle--and I try to write, think, and wherever possible act in order to do that.
For example, even here in the open data space, people on the committee may not know, but along with some colleagues I created the data portal for the Canadian government. Since you didn't have one, I said, I'll create one for you. So you can go to datadotgc.ca; I'm obviously not allowed to own a “.gc.ca” website, as only Government of Canada officials can do that. I created that website, and then several colleagues and I just kind of mapped where all the data was already.
Because you actually already share. I mean, the exciting thing about what you guys are doing is that there's already a policy infrastructure to share data in the federal government. So I was like, why don't we just go find it all, bring it into one site, and then we've created the open data portal for you? I think that site actually helped push the government and helped public servants. I think it brought this to the fore here. It has pushed the government to start thinking about this stuff.
So as an entrepreneur, I think I've been able to push the agenda by defining high-leverage places like that.