You can't predict who will change the world (or why we need more tinkerers)

http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/23/nicholas-taleb-innovation-tech-cz_07rev_nt_0524taleb_print.html

by startupper • 19 years ago

10 4 19 years ago

danw• 19 years ago

unlike European schooling, American education is not based on equation drills and memorization

Erm... My education hasn't been based on drills and memorisation despite being 'European'. I wish journalists wouldn't just make stuff up.

startupper• 19 years ago

Yes there are a few inaccurate generalizations here. Another gem is: "Only a disproportionately minute number of discoveries traditionally came from directed academic research. "

Having said that the essence of the article is quite interesting.

timg• 19 years ago

I have always been amazed at how few people end up creating a new product where there is a need.

What must it be, 1 in 100,000?

MEHOM• 19 years ago

By reading some of the entries in the Startup news section. one gets the feeling that these people are self-centered and have a limited viewpoint of what the masses really wanted.

You can't predict who will change the world (or why we need more tinkerers)

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