Public policy announcements are always in the news - a new scheme here, an enhancement there. Few, however, pause to reflect on what these add up to. Occasionally, the Government may string together a narrative for a major speech such as during the Budget debate or Committee of Supply, but the message is often lost among the policy details.

As a director at the Ministry of Finance from 2010 to 2016, I felt that there was a story worth telling about how Singapore has quietly but systematically overhauled its socio-economic system since the turn of the century.