The Ledger
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Arthur Brooks: Founders and policymakers often ignore work's human side
“Too often, those of us who work in the free enterprise system, whether we're in policy or whether people are doing a startup or whatever it happens to be, intimately Involved in the free enterprise system, either studying the system or using the system, they d…”
Arthur Brooks: Software engineers should view themselves as moral theologians
“Software engineers that are listening to this, Should be moral theologians. What is the meaning behind your work?”
Arthur Brooks: Visionary entrepreneurs unlock latent demand, not existing demand
“The most conventional entrepreneurs look for demand that exists but is currently unmet. Visionary entrepreneurship is the kind where the demand doesn't even exist yet. The reason that Jobs was such an inflecting visionary character was because he believed in l…”
Arthur Brooks: Immigrants are the ultimate entrepreneurs risking their lives
“Conventional thinking about entrepreneurship thinks about it in terms of starting a company, starting a firm. But real entrepreneurship is a way of life. And the most entrepreneurial people are people who put their capital at risk. And who puts their capital a…”