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Innovation

Is It Possible to Have Too Many Choices?

On May 27, 1829 the chemist and mineralogist James Smithson died at the age of sixty-three. With no natural heir, Smithson’s will stated that his fortune would pass on to his nephew Henry Hungerford. Six years later, Hungerford also died childless, thus activating a...

Let’s Cheer for Entrepreneurship

Americans love a good competition—look no further than your local sports bar on NFL Sunday. Fans are deeply invested in the relatively meaningless success or failure of the team that they cheer for. Fair-weather fans everywhere get excited and boast of their team’s...

The Future of Work

In 1918 as World War I was coming to a close, my grandfather, Jack Snow, was born on a farm outside of Jasper, Alabama. Life on the farm was incredibly labor intensive for the entire family and young Jack pitched in as best as he could, even learning how to plow the...

How Millennials Can Avoid the Glue Factory

There was one type of employee that was essential to the Industrial Revolution—until it wasn’t. Everyone interacted and depended on this hard worker, whose number peaked at 3.25 million in England alone by 1901. Yet by the 1920s, their number had been cut in half...