Patrick Collison

Collison catalogs examples of remarkable speed in human achievement—from the Empire State Building (410 days) to the Apollo program (8 years)—to argue that exceptional execution speed is both possible and drastically undervalued in modern institutions.

Collison argues that sustained economic growth is both more important and more fragile than most people realize, challenging the assumption that progress is automatic and urging deliberate investment in the conditions that make growth possible.