Resilience

When you can't see where you're going, the choice to keep going or stop isn't decided by which is right — it's decided by which failure you could forgive yourself for.

Two years of head-down execution ended in a moment of looking up — and a slow recognition of what curiosity actually is once the good outcomes have stopped being available.

The post-WWII order is crumbling and small countries need to respond — but the hardest part isn't knowing what to do, it's that the problem demands exactly the kind of sustained, boring, comprehensive investment that democratic systems are worst at.