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On judgment, work, education,
and the institutions that shape us.
Nobody has met a city or a company. They have met a few people and filed them under the name
Read the essayOn judgment, work, education,
and the institutions that shape us.
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I work at Boston Consulting Group, where outputs are structured and timelines are fixed. I also write, where neither is true.
This is where I think out loud about how people decide, what institutions teach us, and why familiar answers sometimes stop working.
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