During my master’s program, I was introduced to the concept of Chesterton’s Fence, first described by writer and philosopher G.K. Chesterton in 1929. The concept is simple yet profound: “Imagine you come across a fence built across a road. You don’t see any immediate purpose for it, so you propose to remove it. However, before doing so, you are challenged to first understand why it was put there in the first place. Read more