Koye has a way of spotting patterns in the mess, whether in economics, human behavior, or the politics of implementation. “People don’t adopt solutions just because they work in theory,” he told me. “They adopt them because they make sense in their world.”

We talked about the road less traveled and how it’s a commitment that shapes everything ahead. And then there was fiction and friendships: how writing, like strategy, is less about solving problems than about truly understanding them. 

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