Early this morning, I got a group text on Facebook Messenger from my DC-based Puerto Rican friend Gretchen Sierra Zorita. The message: a link to a page alerting/reminding citizens that Puerto Rico is running out of cash and will need to make bond payments of roughly $1 billion unless Congress addresses the debt this week in its omnibus appropriations bill. The message was startling, not just because I care about Puerto Rico — I’ve written several times before about the challenges the island is facing — but because earlier in the week I met live with the founder of a new economic initiative in Puerto Rico, dubbed Parallel18 (disclosure: I am an unpaid advisor), that is looking to address the challenges in the long term. So I awoke this Sunday with a fuzzy picture in my mind: the famous Horizons graph that was invented by the folks at McKinsey to help organizations address their challenges today and in the future.

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