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Everything crumbles, eventually. What we assemble comes apart again, sooner or later. The physical structures we put up will someday come down, however robust they look today. The institutions and businesses we design, build, and nurture may enjoy proud runs, then fade. Globe-spanning empires—Roman, British, American—end up buckling under their own weight. Even our best […]

One evening I found myself watching people build cathedrals out of sugar. The Great British Bake Off, a phenomenally successful TV show, had reached that familiar moment: the showstopper that isn’t really a bake so much as a table-top construction project. A “showpiece” with a narrative brief: fairyland, iconic monuments, whatever the week’s theme happens […]