Entrepreneurship

Einstein said You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war which I would apply in the context of entrepreneurship You cannot simultaneously prevent and create bureaucracy and in education You cannot simultaneously make a student dependent and independent yet universities seem to try to do both. I think professors feel too much incentive to create programs, centers, and institutes to stop themselves. I've seen professors and administrators spend years chasing government grants, leading students to chase government grants, to create centers and institutes of entrepreneurship, never mentioning anything about customers or sales. In those years, I didn't see them actually help students. Their plan was to create the entrepreneurial program first, then work with the students. I've seen professors and administrators, meaning to promote entrepreneurship,…

I've written before about the problems with the Myers-Briggs test. Wikipedia points to plenty of research that shows it lacks validity, utility, reliability, and that its underlying model of four dichotomies has no evidence. I've written about how its model that your traits on four axes stay the same independent of situation don't help you and undermine your improvement. Some of my favorite posts show the model of what it calls introversion and extroversion likely make your life worse and complacent. I consider that model bankrupt at best and offer another model to replace introversion and extroversion that readers have described as one of the best things they've read to improve their lives. Here's a way to make money helping people improve their lives (instead…