Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded – here and there, now and then – are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people.
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Phrasing The Question
Noticing Chains
Startup Outliers
The best startups almost have to start as side projects, because great ideas tend to be such outliers that your conscious mind would reject them as ideas for companies.
Contrarian Truth
If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
– Peter Thiel
The Limitation Of Righteousness
The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness.
Innovation Endows Resources With A New Capacity To Create Wealth
Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Innovation, indeed, creates a resource. There is no such thing as a ‘resource’ until man finds a use for something in nature and then endows it with economic value. Until then, every plant is a weed and every mineral just another rock.
Crafting The Right Experience
Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.