"Reject small plans when constraints don't apply to you The Squamish Nation owned land in central Vancouver where Canadian municipal zoning laws did not apply — meaning they could 'build higher, build differently, not abiding by the same bylaws.' Rather than defaulting to the standard mid-rise development their consultants proposed, the council eventually scrapped that plan and designed 11 skyscrapers with 6,000 units. The lesson is that when you identify a constraint others face but you don't, your baseline ambition should be recalibrated upward — accepting ordinary outcomes in an extraordinary position wastes the advantage entirely. Source: Wilson Williams & Jacob Lewis III, Planet Money, The Squamish Nation's Economic Experiment"