There Is No Way To Create Wealth

At The Heart Of Every Faith System Is A Bargain: On One Side There Is The Comfort That Comes From A Narrative That Suggests Human Life Has Cosmic Significance, And On The Other A Duty To Yield To Moral Commands That Can, In The Moment, Seem Rather Inconvenient.

In A World Of Commoditized Knowledge, The Returns Go To The Companies Who Can Produce Non-standard Knowledge.

Dakota Tribal Wisdom Says That When You're On A Dead Horse, The Best Strategy Is To Dismount. Of Course, There Are Other Strategies. You Can Change Riders. You Can Get A Committee To Study The Dead Horse. You Can Benchmark How Other Companies Ride Dead Horses. You Can Declare That It's Cheaper To Feed A Dead Horse. You Can Harness Several Dead Horses Together. But After You've Tried All These Things, You're Still Going To Have To Dismount.

Obviously, You Don't Have To Be Religious To Be Moral, And Beastly People Are Sometimes Religious.

I'm Not One Of Those Professors Whose Office Is Encased Floor-to-ceiling With Books. By The Way, I Think Academics Do This To Intimidate Their Visitors.