Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and senior director of programs at the National Academy of Engineering. His new book is Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (W.W.

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What’s the best way to solve hard problems? That’s the question at the heart of a subfield of computer science called computational complexity theory. It’s a hard question to answer, but flip it ...

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Facing hard things is, well, hard. Sometimes we are forced to simply shift, such as with a loss or a pandemic; however, much of the time, we may be aware of the difficulties lurking underneath that ...