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Essays, articles and notes on the systems that hold ideas together.
Long-form writing on institution building, policy, education, healthcare, systems and public life. New pieces are added periodically.
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What It Actually Means to Build a University
A note from inside the work — on the difference between founding an idea and constructing an institution.
A university is not primarily a set of buildings. It is a long agreement about what a society is willing to take seriously enough to sustain across generations.
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Why Institutions Need Operating Systems
Most ideas do not fail at the level of ambition. They fail at the level of the machinery required to sustain them.
A university, a hospital and a policy program have more in common than the sectors that produce them suggest. Each is a promise held together by a set of internal systems most people never see.
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