Letting politics dictate business decisions — or tying down political projects with commercial contracts — isn't the way to go.
Their political projects are radically dissimilar.
I asked him what he thought were the most important political projects to protect online privacy and organisational openness.
Successful political projects must do three things: 1) Have a driving purpose underpinned by values and principles.
Rubens threw himself into political projects, including an ill-fated commission by the Dowager Queen Marie de Medici.
There has been little sign of this happening, though, in part because political projects are shut down as soon as they threaten to go out of control.
For their part, political analysts have focused on the ideological and normative implications of sustainability, on the character of green political projects, and on the public policy implications.
And there is a sense in which all political projects, conceived in the abstract, are bound to fail when they face contact with hard reality.
It is the "meaning-conferring function of political projects" that he identifies as the aspect of them that allows people to get carried away with dangerous fervour.
He's hugely influential and has been present at pivotal moments in the tech world, funding political projects but remaining little known and deeply private.
During the past decade, Mercer, who is seventy, has funded an array of political projects that helped pave the way for Trump's rise.
