Anthemik

I think I should pause to celebrate the occasion That today I discovered the meaning of life Is not in the answer, or in how I would reckon it. It is in the asking: What is the meaning of *our* life? That is the only question that can stretch to hold All of the askers, and all of the answers.

“To be sure, focusing beyond the single bottom line does not necessarily imply forgetting about the “profit motive.” However, it does mean transcending it toward a mode of wealth and wellbeing creation that pursues personal, social, cultural, and ecological benefits and wholeness in addition to financial results… This dimension is the oxygen of business, but to view it as the sole purpose and meaning for existence rather than to use it as a means for accomplishing great things is to grossly underconceptualize our potential.”

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Capitalism is an institution, like our public-school system or our healthcare system. As a nation we think it's appropriate to debate whether our schools and our healthcare system are working properly and meeting our needs. Why is it taboo to ask whether the way we organize the production and distribution of goods and services is meeting our needs?

It’s simply wrong to see brainstorming in opposition to solitary thinking, or user research as antithetical to disruptive innovation. These apparently opposing approaches are actually complementary, and effective innovators already use them as such, picking the right mind-frame and the accompanying tools and methodologies according to the specificities of the challenge at hand.

Lately I have had this feeling in my stomach of being on a merry-go-round. It's a vague sense of disequalibrium and unease. I think it's related to what I've been learning and how I've been growing... rather than experiencing it as a local change, it feels more as though the world itself is changing around me, old rules are being rewritten, and again--like it has for the last two years--the future keeps expanding.