The beauty of playing the long game

Over in the Boston Globe, I wrote about the surprising power of playing long games:

I love projects with multi-decade timelines. They defy the limiting logic of quarterly earnings, KPIs, conversion rates, and all the other metrics that blind us even as they bind us to the status quo in a society where data is so often used as an excuse instead of a guiding light. Long-term projects require a different way of thinking, the shrugging off of constraints embedded in so many human incentive systems.

The beauty of playing the long game - The Boston Globe