Philip Goldenberg has had the privilege of a variegated career in law, politics, business, charity, and religion. His previous book about the various organisations with which he was involved, and how they worked (or more frequently, didn't work) was called Walking through Different Worlds, with a subtitle of Annoying People for Good (which he regards as his principal talent). He was a top City lawyer, specialising in corporate finance and governance, with significant experience in voluntary organisations, as well as constitutional law; has chaired a quoted company; has been a non-executive director of the CBI; has been a Treasurer and Trustee of the Royal Society of Arts; has chaired a national charity; has been Deputy Chair of the Electoral Reform Society; has been an active Liberal Democrat locally and nationally, contesting seven Parliamentary elections and serving as a Woking Borough Councillor for thirteen years (he also advised the Liberal Party when it merged with the SDP and co-authored the original Constitution of the Liberal Democrats, and drafted what became the 2010/5 Coalition's Machinery of Government Agreement); is active in interfaith work inter alia as a former Trustee of Woking People of Faith; is a co-Deputy Chair and Interfaith Officer of the North West Surrey Reform Synagogue, which he also represents on the Jewish Board of Deputies; and has also recently been actively involved with the formation of Progressive Judaism.