Anytime you see a constrained market, where consumption is limited to those who have special skills or are wealthy, that signals an opportunity for innovation.

Most startup companies have two people, and they figure out creative ways to swarm problems. They move faster and have more impact.

When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side.

You still want to be thoughtful about what you do, no doubt, but you have to learn through trial-and-error experimentation as well.

The curious company studies the anomalies or the unexpected findings. The company that isn't curious ignores them or punishes people who don't do exactly what they set out to do.

It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.

Why do people do crossword puzzles? There's no reward for completing one, but some people just like the challenge.