Entrepreneurship

Imagine waking up tomorrow and discovering that your brain is not really a brain at all. It is a factory. A small, wet, surprisingly demanding factory sitting on top of your shoulders, running three shifts, churning out ideas, decisions, memories, and the occasional regrettable text message. The product is thought. The output is your life. […]

There is a quiet scandal at the heart of modern thinking about money. We have somehow arrived at a moment in history where earning a profit is treated as morally suspicious, while losing money is seen as evidence of pure intentions. A nonprofit that burns through donations and produces nothing measurable gets a respectful nod.

There is a recurring fantasy in democratic politics. It goes something like this: somewhere out there, a small group of extraordinarily wealthy people are sitting on mountains of cash, and if we could just reach into those mountains and redistribute the gold, most of our collective problems would dissolve. Schools would be funded. Healthcare would