Analysis paralysis

There’s a mystery about the origin of the quote that the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, but whoever coined it had obviously never heard of our Electricity Authority.

Or the Commerce Commission, or our transport authorities, or the various luminaries who wrestle with the optimal configuration of our ports, our climate-change response and our housing crisis. They are veritable fruit machines – kaleidoscopes of new possibilities, even though their methods and parameters barely change.

The Electricity Authority is the reigning champion, having posed the same set of questions, facts and data repeatedly for