The Business Romantic

Evgeny Morozov,

“Conscious Capitalism;”

Second Machine Age, written by the MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.

his description of humanity in his seminal work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) appears to be as somber as it was prophetic: “Narrow specialists without minds, pleasure seekers without heart; in their conceit, these nullities imagine they have climbed to a level of humanity never before attained.”

Whereas a purpose-driven business will only succeed if it achieves some clearly defined “good” in the world, Business Romantics find as much worth in the process as in the end product.

I started to meet more and more professionals who “wanted to be elsewhere” while being devoted to the here and now.

app called “meeting mediator” that shows who is dominating the conversation in a meeting.

Taproot Foundation.

deeper antagonism in society: technologists don’t know what they don’t know until they know it. In contrast, artists and romantics, by the very nature of their work, live with the tensions of ambiguity, conflict, doubt, and hesitancy.