Your money is safer in the hands of the world's poor than in your 401(k). - Peter Diamandis

you’re looking for a quick and dirty definition of the term, try the unofficial motto of Silicon Valley: “Fail early, fail often, fail forward.”8 Bold ventures — especially the world-changing type we’re advocating here — require this kind of experimental approach. Yet as most experiments fail, real progress requires trying out tons of ideas, decreasing

This difference is key. Thinking in probabilities — this business has a 60 percent chance of success — rather than deterministically — if I do A and B, then C will definitely happen — doesn’t just guard against oversimplification; it further protects against the brain’s inherent laziness. The

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates we have twelve years to halt global warming at 1.5 degrees. Yet we already have the technology required to meet these challenges, and thanks to convergences, it will only continue to improve. Our innovations may have caught up with our problems. Collaboration is the missing piece of the puzzle. If we’re going to make the shift to sustainable at the speed required, then we the people are both the obstacle and the opportunity.