At The Kabul Museum

“It is difficult not to write about the Kabul Museum as a lament, and perhaps it was ever thus. The single white marble door on your left as you enter probably comes from the Kabul bazaar, burnt by the British in 1842 … [and the] museum bears the scars of the rocket that hit it in the spring of 1993. … And yet it is not a depressing place.”

Why We’re Failing At Big Innovation

“Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our age. Any strategy that involves crossing a valley–accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance–will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.”