Jan
10
Align Material Incentives, Stupid
To understand why the world feels fractured, we must look at incentives.
2 min read
Economics
The Greatest Game
Dec
14
Make Business Boring Again
There is a misguided belief that innovation must be sexy
1 min read
Dec
14
Hard Things and Slow Deaths
Restarting Adams’s cycle
1 min read
Dec
03
The Slow Death of American Innovation
The number of Americans starting new businesses has collapsed
1 min read
Dec
03
Walking Capitalism
There’s one thing social networks can never replace: physical interactions between people.
1 min read
Nov
10
Industry Weasels
Terms without clarity are offensive.
1 min read
Nov
10
The Moral Case for Disrupting College
So here’s a wild idea: instead of a single American college education system, whose costs go up and to the right faster than any other industry, we create competitive education systems (plural).
1 min read
Nov
10
Larry Summers Surreal Epiphany
He has literally promoted policies for people and places he did not understand.
1 min read
Oct
30
The Ethics of Innovation
Juul’s mission is “to improve the lives of the world’s one billion adult smokers” by helping them “move to reduced risk products.”
1 min read
Oct
30
Make Local Innovation Great Again
All things of sustainable value start small — and, in this case, small means local.
1 min read