If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

I do think Tim Cook is doing a very good job, I think he has almost impossibly big shoes to fill with Steve Jobs' departure. And so, that's the context always someone has to put things in. But, I do think that for the most part that Apple is at a point where it's much more focused on scale than on doing new things.

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.

If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?

Forget startup companies. The next frontier is startup countries.

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.