Infrastructure first
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Argues that solving big problems needs both social and physical systems—drawing on community development finance, social psychology, complexity theory and sports—to build repeatable infrastructure. Uses city growth numbers (1950: 1/3 urban; now 50%; ~15 years: 2/3 urban), a concrete failure mode where automated hand dispensers miss darker skin about 40% of the time, and the risk that biased perception code in autonomous vehicles or AI copied worldwide creates mass harm unless diverse stakeholders and new practices are embedded.
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