He told me he wanted to put one of the book's core ideas, broad listening, into practice. Broad listening is like broadcasting in reverse: instead of one person speaking to millions of people, one person listens to millions of people and reflects back their common ground, differences, and crowdsourced ideas. Because he also has programming skills, he built a system to do exactly that and asked me what I thought about his chances of running for Tokyo Governor with it, even though he was only 33 and relatively unknown at the time. I told him: go for it.