Nothing Ever Happens

“Innovation is ultimately not an act of intellect but of will,” said Schumpeter. A new book  about innovation teaches us that there needs to me more: passion shall meet humility and discipline. Dreaming in Code is an epic tale about Mitchell Kapor, one of the greatest software entrepreneurs, set on a grand mission: to create […]

Clive Thompson strikes again, this time with a touchy piece on sadness; a particular kind of called solastalgia. It’s a mashup of the roots solacium (comfort) and algia (pain), which together aptly conjure the word nostalgia. In essence, it’s pining for a lost environment. “Solastalgia,” is a form of homesickness one gets when one is […]

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Self-ironic just in the style of Microsoft.

Joseph Schumpeter, one of the twentieth century’s most important economic and political thinkers, got a new biography (Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction) by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Thomas K. McCraw.
Here are a few excerpts from the authors article on the saint of entrepreneurship. (Read the article from INC. magazine).
- Entrepreneurs, Schumpeter insisted, are […]