Adam Smith Knew the Truth About Empathy

20Apr07

Adam Smith lives in the economics department. He sleeps on a back shelf found in the offices of every professor and research assistant in the western world. He’s comfortable. Understood. Dull. A mid-afternoon nap in the sunset years of the mind.
Supply and demand, invisible hand, the division of labor. Lovely.
I’m over-doing it, of [...]

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Auguste (Comte) And Everything After

17Apr07

Constraints are essential to the creation of any great work. No book would ever be published if its author spent a lifetime trying to choose the ideal format. The great American pop song is about three and a half minutes long because each side of early records couldn’t hold much more music than that.
In the [...]

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The Day After the Revolution

12Apr07

O designers, researchers, innovators and strategists! Are you girding yourself for the battle to come? Are your desks and minds filled with sharp rhetoric and sharper retorts? Do you believe that this year will be the one when we finally break through? Do you dream of the glorious revolution, the day when the world business [...]

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