When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.

Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.

We need to play each others instruments.

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.

One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing.