We could eventually publish a real book about Trillium — the buildings, the residents, the people who bought into your vision, what you were trying to build, what worked, what failed, and what Rachitha and Lekhya build next.
Not an advertisement pretending to be a book.
A real book with real people and real stories.
That can help Trillium win customers and leave a permanent record of what you built.
You’ve done a great job with Trillium. To me, it is almost a metropolitan oasis.
But the bigger opportunity is your book.
If you still intend to do more in public life, I think your problem is remarkably simple:
You don’t have a shortage of experience. You have a packaging problem.
You spent years building companies, talking about exports, fighting over electricity, defending independent institutions, dealing with Government and explaining what is wrong with Sri Lanka.
Then you asked the whole country to judge you and received 2,405 votes.
I don’t think that proves you were without merit.
I think most people never understood the complete case for Janaka Ratnayake.
That is a publishing problem.
And that is something we know how to help with.
What would you actually do differently?
What did you learn at the EDB?
What did Russia teach you?
What did the PUCSL fight teach you? And, by the way, thanks for keeping the bills down during your tenure.
What should Sri Lanka do about exports, electricity, investment and foreign policy?
What did politicians get wrong?
What did businessmen get wrong?
And what would you actually have done if you had become President?
Those answers should exist somewhere permanent. Those answers are part of what will give you what you seek.
I watched the way everybody else packaged themselves.
Namal saw Dhammika’s “Blueprint.” Sajith came with his own Blueprint.
They understand that politics is not only aptitude. It is how somebody is understood.
I think you were presented badly, not that you had nothing to present.
You would have won far more attention if the public had understood the complete story rather than fragments of it.
That is what I want to fix.
Many people have now seen Hemasiri’s and Quintus’ books. They can become more visible than people who technically ranked above them because I can present their stories better.
That is what publishing does.