Stephen Downes

Chris Corrigan links to Peter Levine's call to restore a call to public service. "The paradigm of service should be a full-time, professional career in the government. I am not against social entrepreneurship or temporary community service, but the civil service is much larger and more important. We do not need alternatives to government careers nearly as much as we need more and better positions within the civil service (federal, state, and local)." I have of course dedicated my career to the public service, and while in theory I could have made boatloads of cash in the private sector, none of that would work would have resonated as well with my own sense of worth and value.