Can we maintain profit margins while also making experiences that put us in touch with the wondrous, the delightful, and the mysterious? Isn’t it time to bring our fullest selves to the job? What if we could find romance in and through business?

“Intuition itself is just an algorithm,” the Google executive, a highly trained engineer, contended, “it’s made up of millions of impressions that we input into the brain.” He suggested we reconstruct and simulate this process.

But do we really think software companies such as Amazon, Facebook, and Google, and all of their younger offspring can address our most important social and ethical questions?

As a marketing executive, I view business as one of the greatest adventures of the human enterprise—if not the greatest. But I am not just a businessman: I am also an unapologetic romantic.

This is a quintessentially romantic posture. In fact, Nietzsche, the German philosopher, described the romantic as a person who always wants to be elsewhere.

Close your eyes and cast your mind back: the way the work felt, the way it sounded, and how it made your heart beat faster.

Against this backdrop of confusion and insecurity, Millennials are looking for a greater sense of meaning and community through work.

Inside, where no one else could see, there were beautiful silk linings of vibrant colors. He called these his “secret smiles.”

the only ecstasy we can still find lies in a state of constant overwhelm.