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  • Discount: The Economist Innovation Event, March 23/24

    By Scott Berkun, March 15, 2010

    There are still a few seats left for The first ever event on Innovation run by The Economist magazine. It’s quite the roster of speakers: Arianna Huffington, Ray Kurzweil, John Kao, Paul Saffo, Jared Diamond, Robert Reich, John Perry Barlow and...
March 12, 2010

The cult of busy

When I was younger I thought busy people were more important than everyone else. Otherwise why would they be so busy? I had busy bosses, busy parents, and always I just thought they must have really important things to do....
March 11, 2010

Quote of the week

“After a firefight, there is always the immense pleasure of aliveness. The trees are alive. The grass, the soil – everything. All around you things are purely living, and you among them, and the aliveness makes you tremble. You feel...

Recent Essay (more essays)

#60 – How to be a free thinker

By Scott Berkun

In the same way a man can be chained to an oak tree, a mind can be chained to an assumption, a religion, a political party, or any idea of any kind. But the idea, like the tree, should not…

Essay #59 – How to pick a president

Turning off all media for 48 hours does amazing things for clarity. When you return to the web and TV, the insane and unintentional comedy of the civilized world becomes clear. As Voltaire wrote, “God is a comedian playing to…

Essay #58 – How to innovate right now

The biggest secret of innovation is that anyone can do it. The reason is simple: It’s just not that hard. Look up the word “innovate” in any dictionary and see what it actually means, instead of what you think it…

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