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Seeing Life Through a Beggar’s Eyes

Seven years ago during the Acumen fellowship program, I was challenged to spend a day on the streets of New York trying to better understand the plight of the 59,000+ homeless in New York City. The experience was an exercise in moral imagination, which Jacqueline...

Innovation from a Peanut?

When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well, George, that’s more nearly your size.’ – George Washington...

Micro-Entrepreneurs and the Industrial Revolution

The human brain weighs just three pounds and yet it contains around 86 billion neurons. Neurogrid, a new circuit board developed at Stanford and modeled on the human brain, is 9,000 times faster than the average computer yet it effectively contains some 86,000 times...

Social Isolation and the Workplace of the Future

In 1995, Michael Smith, then President & CEO of Land’s End, ushered in the modern social networking era, with the launch of Classmates.com. SixDegrees, Friendster, LinkedIn, and MySpace followed. Latecomer Facebook (originally known as “TheFacebook”) joined the...

Are You Blessed and Oblivious?

Early on a Friday morning, a man walks into a convenience store and buys a six-pack of beer. He hands the clerk a few bills and walks back to his spot on the street, eager to start the morning buzz. Choudrey is a fifty-seven year old Pakistani man who has been living...