Sublime

If you work for an established large institution, perhaps you have seen a descent into excess credentialism and highly bureaucratic hiring procedures rather than the quest for inspired talent that made the company great in the first place. You might like to get your institution taking more chances again—good chances, of course.

not-too-distant future might not have steady work available to them. To him, this coming future was both an entertainment problem (how would we occupy the minds of all those people?) and a political one (how would we keep them from revolting?).

more well-being than sticking to business as usual,

C H A P T E R 8 The Great Unbundling

adding that it is the “second derivative”—the changes in the rate of growth of a company’s sales—that really tell a venture investor whether to back it.

she sees the primary role of government as keeping the process of development open-ended by preventing violence, fraud, monopolies, and monocultures, and by stimulating—but not prescribing—various forms of knowledge and practice.

feminists