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.
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Liberate Higher Education To Compete In The Knowledge Economy
In which industry does the US enjoy a globally dominant, almost unassailable position? No, it is not technology, pharmaceuticals, defence or aerospace. The one sector in which US dominance is near-absolute is higher education. Every year, some 80% of the…
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.
Vyome Raises $8M Series B Funding
“The whole process where people get an idea and put together a team, raise the capital, create a product and mainstream it — that can only be done in the U.S. It can’t be done sitting in India. The Indian part…
Humility Is Greatness
Unthinkable
Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that’s unthinkable.