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Humanness and the Architecture of Scale

When an institution is large enough, it stops interacting with individuals as peers. It moves with momentum no person can generate, deploys resources no person can match, and when it turns out to be wrong, that wrongness has nowhere inside the institution to land. So it lands on the family. This is the story of Maya, who said she did not remember who she was off the battlefield, and the architecture that put her there.

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