Bookmarks
A growing list of articles I’ve saved and would happily push on a friend.
Cream
An 18-year-old is invited to a piano recital on a Kobe hillside that turns out not to exist, and meets an old man on a bench who poses a riddle — a circle with many centers and no circumference — that he'll spend the rest of his life trying to solve. Quintessential late Murakami: small mystery, large interior weather.
Broken Ownership
True ownership lives at the intersection of three things in the same hands — knowledge, mandate, and responsibility — and Ewerlöf catalogues the six failure modes when any one is missing (Monkey with a Gun, Foot Soldier, Baby Parent, Teenager, Coma, Gambler). The cleanest argument I've read for why 'you build it, you own it' beats 'you build it, you run it'.