- You can have a revolution without burning it all down
- Keep the best of what came before while pushing into new territory
- Be humble—you can’t write rules for a world you don’t understand yet
- Create conditions for success rather than detailed blueprints
- Beethoven learned classical music before he broke the rules
“If we are to have a revolution, perhaps we can have a conservative one, that preserves the best aspects of the tradition it replaces.”
This sounds a lot like Audrey Tang’s “conservative anarchism”—radical change that still respects what works. The humility part matters most. You’re not smart enough to design the future from scratch. Just train good people and build containers flexible enough to adapt.