Media
The same body of work, read, watched, heard.
A podcast, a video series and an archive of interviews and public appearances. The intent is unhurried, substantive work — long conversations, short essays, and honest field notes from inside the projects.
Podcast
The Long Institution
Conversations with builders, thinkers and practitioners on the operating systems behind ambitious ideas.
David Gehry hosts a podcast on institution building, public systems, education, healthcare and the work of turning ambition into structure. Episodes are long-form, unhurried and substantive.
- Host
- David Gehry
- Cadence
- Approximately monthly.
- Status
- forthcoming
Season one — episode preview
- 01forthcoming58m 00s
What an institution actually is
An opening conversation on the difference between an idea, an organization and an institution.
A solo opening episode. Why the word 'institution' has become imprecise, what it should mean, and how to tell the difference between an organization that will outlive its founders and one that will not.
- 02coming soon1h 04m
Implementation is the discipline
On the point at which the announcement ends and the ordinary Tuesday begins.
Most public failures are not failures of vision — they are failures of implementation. This episode looks at what serious implementation planning actually requires, and why it is so often skipped.
Video
Field Notes
Short, unhurried video essays and field notes on institution building, public systems and the work in progress. Cinematic, restrained, honest.
Cadence: Irregular — released as pieces are ready.
essay
6m 40sforthcoming · September 15, 2026
On what a university actually is
A short video essay on the deeper commitments beneath the visible surfaces of higher education.
- Education
- Institution Building
field note
4m 20scoming soon · October 20, 2026
Field note — the first year of a new institution
A candid field note from the first year of building an institution, and what it teaches about the difference between announcement and construction.
- Institution Building
- Project Notes
commentary
5m 00scoming soon · November 10, 2026
Why good ideas fail at the handoff
A short essay on the seam between vision and operations — where most complex projects quietly die.
- Systems & Operations
- Leadership
Interviews & appearances
Elsewhere
Podcast appearances, news interviews, panels, conference talks, guest articles and broadcast segments. The archive is added to as items appear.
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