On 4/7/12 12:20 PM, Rich Cooper wrote:
The point of the article, as I see
it, is that
individuals following self interest are the originators of
knowledge, sharers
of knowledge, and the source of social progress. Grouping
people into
political units (such as religious movements, democracies,
socialist states,
dictatorships, pick your favorite or most reviled instance) is
what turns the
groups ultimately toward the dark side.
Great point!
Some use the moniker 'Game Theory' for what your excerpt above.
Show me an innovator and I'll unravel a person that's had to solve a
really frustrating personal problem that became a product. The much
celebrated Steve Jobs is a prominent example, and of course there
are a many others :-)
My passion for data access was the product of frustrations I had
eons ago, while working as an accountant. I couldn't understand why
Lotus 123 and other productivity tools didn't have seamless hooks
into back-end relational databases :-)
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