Do you like cooking shows? Of course you do. Do you like competition cooking shows, where the various chefs rip each other apart like they are ripping apart a head of lettuce? Admit it, you do. So do you like seeing competition cooking shows with kids? Probably. But hopefully not to see them rip each […]

Economist Milton Friedman famously wrote in 1970 that “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.” Stripped of all the discussion about whether or not a corporation is like a person, or how providing jobs and wages and goods and services is how private companies contribute to society, we are left with one […]

Hmmm… Jocelyn Glei writes at 99U about the rhythms of work vs the rhythms of creative labor. She highlights what she sees as the differentiation between the two, and discusses how your ability to pursue work effectively is under your control more so than pursuing creative labor effectively. Creativity, it seems, may be subject to […]

Talking with some startup owners in Singapore recently, one question that came up was the impact formal education has on entrepreneurship. The concern that emerged was that the skills learned in a university might not be especially helpful for entrepreneurs, while the rules of the classroom — strict deadlines, a specific format for papers, that […]