Knowing my background in philosophy, Brad Feld and Dave Jilk recently invited me to contribute a foreword for their new book, The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors. It’s now available andI highly recommend it; click here to get your copy. Here’s the foreword I wrote for it. Nietzsche is a troubling and troublesome philosopher. In different decades…
Introducing the Berggruen Philosophy Prize and my nominee for it, Robert Wright “We need more welders and less philosophers,” Marco Rubio exclaimed during a presidential debate last fall. The larger point he was trying to make was about the virtues of vocational training, and the role it can play in helping young people develop relevant skills that…
“Keep your identity small.” —Paul Graham “Identity” has become somewhat of a dirty word, especially in Silicon Valley circles. In many minds, the word “identity” goes hand in hand with the word “politics”; a divisive tool used by politicians to win voters by appealing to religious or ethnic affiliations. YCombinator founder Paul Graham even wrote…